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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Fabric Deals

I was finally able to get some fabric for shirt for me. 


My only pitfall was what seemed on sale was everything that didn't sell during the year, so the choices weren't that great in my opinion.  I do absolutely love one of the patterns, I wish I had gotten more of it, but I bought 2 yards of each, which will give me enough for a shirt out of each pattern. 




I LOVE that top pattern.  The white one you can kind of see peeking out... we thought it was a different color, I guess I didn't read the description clearly...  And that pink background... Yeah... that's probably going to end up as a dress for one of the girls.  But hey, for about $1.50 a yard each... really not THAT bad of choices.  

I have patterns for shirts already.  So I need to get to sewing.  I'll get at least five shirts out of all this, really not a bad price. 

I'm really looking forward to getting rid of shirts that are too small, but that couldn't be replaced until I got something different.  My ultimate wardrobe goal is to have around 5 "going out" outfits..  Some that are more hardy to wear for grocery shopping and yard work, and some that are nicer for church or family outings. These could all be mixed up by wearing with different shirts as I'm working on getting all the pants out of my wardrobe. Of course, then there's the pajama pants and t-shirts I will have to part with that I practically live in lol. 

Total cost was right around $45.  My limit was $50, so I came in under budget a  bit.  

Have a great week! 

~Tabitha   

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Meal Plan for December

So I know, it's halfway through December, but we shop the 10th to the 10th.. (ish..) So I'm calling this the December month meal plan. 


I decided to do the meal plan for my post instead of what we ended up spending... because I don't know where my husband put the receipts. LOL   I do know we came in under budget by $60, which isn't the greatest we've done, but we did pick up a few extras we saw on sale while we were out. 

We have been keeping track of our calories (and vitamins..and.. well.. everything!) on a site Dennis found.  Through that, we found we are both in need of fiber.. So we added granola to our foods this month.  We also-ok, mostly Dennis, but then he gives me all the info-take the time to search the net and find what a food has in it to make sure we get everything entered correctly.  (Like bell peppers... each color is a little different in it's calories..) It also helps us verify we are getting the correct info for not only the labeled items (because it seems Fitbit uses a database put in by it's users, so it's often wrong in it's calories according to the labels), but also for the non labeled items that we are trying to eat more of. 

We also added buckwheat (mostly just for the waffles), and exchanged our white flour for wheat flour.   I didn't get too bad of a price on those, I was worried about the price, but thanks to the local co-op in Sioux Falls, I was able to get 10 pounds of Bob's Red Mill whole wheat flour for $10 and a 22 ounce bag of Arrowhead Mills buckwheat for $5.  I thought it was going to cost more than that.  


So onward to the meal plan. 

Breakfasts pretty much stay the same, though I am going to make the kids muffins to go with cereal... With all four eating cereal most days we are going through it way too fast.  Dennis' and I's stayed the same for his workdays, except for a granola for me and a granola bar for him.  Sunday mornings we'll do biscuits and gravy with eggs .... Seems to be  a big hit around here.   Wednesdays we do cowboy hash of some version.  

Lunches for the weekdays I don't get very creative with.. The kids and I eat mac & cheese or peanut butter and jelly (ok.. I usually eat leftovers or eggs and they eat those lol). Dennis does salads with fruit and pickles for snacks at work.  
Weekends (and Wednesdays when Dennis is home) we do chicken strips and fries (Sam's has good chicken strips).   Sundays we buy chips then we stop for hot sandwiches/chicken nuggets on the way home from church.  

So onto the interesting meals lol.  

Christmas day we'll do the homemade honey ham,  Hawaiian Rolls, Pecan Pie, candied sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, corn and bacon and green beans. (Now I'm hungry....)

For our regular suppers, we'll have leftovers from Christmas for 3-4 meals afterwards..
But.. we have on the list..
Shake N Bake
Hawaiian Fajitas
Ham Bone Soup
Fish
Ham and Potato casserole
Caramelized Onion Pizza/ Cheese pizza
Pizza (Sunday evenings we eat frozen pizza)
Garlic knot Pizza
Pork Tenderloins (the flavored Smithfield ones)

I rotate the meals throughout the month.  It does seem like a lot of pizza-but the caramelized onion pizza is different than conventional pizza... The kids don't like it, so they'll get homemade personal pans. 

I'll try to get the recipes out and maybe even with pictures as we do this...  

Have a great week!!

~Tabitha

Monday, December 11, 2017

It's December Already?

About every three months or so I tell myself I need to make a plan about blog posts.  

About every four months I still haven't done it.  

Then guess where we end up? A month without a blog post.  

Oops. 

So. Here we go.  

My plans.  But we all know how plans go (I think I hear laughing somewhere....or maybe it's just in my head.) 

On the home school front,  we have two more weeks then we'll taking a break... My calendar says two weeks.. We'll see how long we last.. The break we took for Thanksgiving, Andrew was begging for chores by day 2. Guess who can do laundry now!! Grace got done with her preschool papers, but I didn't think she was quite ready for the kindergarten level, so I found a book on Amazon.  She's enjoying it.   We are definitely using what we have around the house for math, science and geography next year.  I think we'll keep doing Abeka Phonics for Andrew, but we'll see after I look through choices.  (So that's a future blog post... next spring.. after I figure things out lol.)  

But for now.  Focus. 

I was able to get fabric on the Black Friday sales.  So that's a blog post, at least one, after I vacuum. 

We also got rid the troublesome air beds we've been sleeping on since May and we have a memory foam.  I'll get a blog post going on that, too.   

And a blog post on what I use all this fabric for I have stocked up.  That could get interesting.. I admit to being a fabric hoarder and all this fabric has to find a purpose or go away.  

This week I'll also get a shopping post out as it's grocery week.  

So. That's my grand plans.  We'll see how it comes along. 

Have a great week!! 

~Tabitha