This week, Lil G working on a unit study on China
- Short research on the the country
- reading Chapter Book "Little Pear"
- reading Chapter book "Magic TreeHouse: Day of the Dragon King
- making Chinese lanterns
- copying Chinese characters
The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him Psalm 37:23
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
This week's progress
Pretty excited this week about our lessons with Lil G
This week, Lil G working on a unit study on China
This week, Lil G working on a unit study on China
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Happy New Year!
I am feeling so great! What a mighty God we serve! A whole new year huh? I know that it has been a while since my last post.. but I am pretty psyched now to continue documenting my thoughts, dreams, wishes, etc.
So today is the second day I actually completed a 30 minute excercise. WHAT?! I actually said excercise! Now most of my fam knows that's a dirty, bad word in my language. It's pretty much something I have never done. I make no commitments here and frankly I don't even know that it is even excersice (See? i am even having trouble spelling the darn word!). I do few things on the wii fit then turn to cox and demand and try one of their 20 minute workouts. Preferably something of a dance routine so I can concentrate on only achieving the moves than even think of the dirty word.
Anyhow, here is what I have noticed... I am feeling more energetic, MORE hungry (what's up with that?) and I down a whole bottle of water before it's even 8am (it used to take me a whole day to even complete one bottle). So I guess that's good. Just taking it day by day. The good thing is that it's done and off my mind now and I can go on to bigger and better things.... Like starting my new year of homeschooling. Off to teach now..
Best wishes,
So today is the second day I actually completed a 30 minute excercise. WHAT?! I actually said excercise! Now most of my fam knows that's a dirty, bad word in my language. It's pretty much something I have never done. I make no commitments here and frankly I don't even know that it is even excersice (See? i am even having trouble spelling the darn word!). I do few things on the wii fit then turn to cox and demand and try one of their 20 minute workouts. Preferably something of a dance routine so I can concentrate on only achieving the moves than even think of the dirty word.
Anyhow, here is what I have noticed... I am feeling more energetic, MORE hungry (what's up with that?) and I down a whole bottle of water before it's even 8am (it used to take me a whole day to even complete one bottle). So I guess that's good. Just taking it day by day. The good thing is that it's done and off my mind now and I can go on to bigger and better things.... Like starting my new year of homeschooling. Off to teach now..
Best wishes,
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Menu Planning Monday
This week went pretty well! So here are a few updates:
1. My "cash" plan is working extremely awesome for me. I pull out $100 cash to spend for all my grocery/gas/whatever needs and I have to make that work for as long as possible (goal right now is to even last ONE week!). I found ways to be creative. For example, I needed paper towels, toilet paper, laundry soap, dishwasher detergent... all this week! Now those are normally pretty big costs out of the grocery budget but I knew I had to be creative and savvy with how I was going to make it work. First of course, I cut coupons... then I used an old $10 Target Gift Card I had lying around, some Extra Care Bucks (ECB's) from CVS, and got to work. My total out of pocket (OOP) at Target was $1.90 for Electrosol, a big bottle of Tide, and a few freebies (i.e. bananas, ciabatta bread...) I learned about from here. Then on to CVS to get a few freebies there and used my ECB's to get big packs of paper towels and toilet paper. I didn't "roll" the ECB's but I figured I'd work out another challenge next week when I have a bigger budget. Total OOP for huge packs of TP and paper towels $3.10. Learn more about CVS and how to grow your ECB's with weekly $5 challenges here. Now to be honest... if I had used my debit card and my supposedly "infinite" amount that's in the bank, I would never have challenged myself to make this work. I have a lot of fun trying to beat the system and stay within budget so it's kinda cool! The best part, whatever that is left over can go to fun stuff like this week going out to eat with the Brody's and Turnbough's! Yahoo!
2. Ok so onto the Menu Plan!
Monday - Empanadas (YUM!) I can't wait to make this today! It's got my picadillo recipe and mashed potatoes stuffed inside some yummy fried crisp dough. Just thinking about this makes my mouth water!
Tuesday - Spinach pesto and pasta - So I bought a HUGE bag of spinach at Costco and as expected the almost 3/4 full bag will be expiring on Wednesday. We've never had Pesto so we are gonna give this a try. I guess afterewards I can freeze a huge chunk of the pesto and add to chicken, fish and sandwiches so let's see how that goes!
Wednesday - Vietnamese Chicken over rice noodles. Just thought this looked like a fun recipe to make only will change it up with some fish sauce.
Thursday - Carne Asada burritos - This is our church small group meeting night so we have to have something super easy to take on the go. The cool, cool thing is that I have already cooked the meat and now just have to defrost it and throw it into some yummy flour tortillas with salsa!
Friday - Arroz con pollo
Saturday - Dinner out with friends :-) I look at this as my reward for having a good week!
For more menu plans and ideas check this out...
3. Lastly, here is my laundry update... so since I was out of laundry soap for about a week I am behind on laundry again :-(
Oh well, let's see how far I can get today!
1. My "cash" plan is working extremely awesome for me. I pull out $100 cash to spend for all my grocery/gas/whatever needs and I have to make that work for as long as possible (goal right now is to even last ONE week!). I found ways to be creative. For example, I needed paper towels, toilet paper, laundry soap, dishwasher detergent... all this week! Now those are normally pretty big costs out of the grocery budget but I knew I had to be creative and savvy with how I was going to make it work. First of course, I cut coupons... then I used an old $10 Target Gift Card I had lying around, some Extra Care Bucks (ECB's) from CVS, and got to work. My total out of pocket (OOP) at Target was $1.90 for Electrosol, a big bottle of Tide, and a few freebies (i.e. bananas, ciabatta bread...) I learned about from here. Then on to CVS to get a few freebies there and used my ECB's to get big packs of paper towels and toilet paper. I didn't "roll" the ECB's but I figured I'd work out another challenge next week when I have a bigger budget. Total OOP for huge packs of TP and paper towels $3.10. Learn more about CVS and how to grow your ECB's with weekly $5 challenges here. Now to be honest... if I had used my debit card and my supposedly "infinite" amount that's in the bank, I would never have challenged myself to make this work. I have a lot of fun trying to beat the system and stay within budget so it's kinda cool! The best part, whatever that is left over can go to fun stuff like this week going out to eat with the Brody's and Turnbough's! Yahoo!
2. Ok so onto the Menu Plan!
Monday - Empanadas (YUM!) I can't wait to make this today! It's got my picadillo recipe and mashed potatoes stuffed inside some yummy fried crisp dough. Just thinking about this makes my mouth water!
Tuesday - Spinach pesto and pasta - So I bought a HUGE bag of spinach at Costco and as expected the almost 3/4 full bag will be expiring on Wednesday. We've never had Pesto so we are gonna give this a try. I guess afterewards I can freeze a huge chunk of the pesto and add to chicken, fish and sandwiches so let's see how that goes!
Wednesday - Vietnamese Chicken over rice noodles. Just thought this looked like a fun recipe to make only will change it up with some fish sauce.
Thursday - Carne Asada burritos - This is our church small group meeting night so we have to have something super easy to take on the go. The cool, cool thing is that I have already cooked the meat and now just have to defrost it and throw it into some yummy flour tortillas with salsa!
Friday - Arroz con pollo
Saturday - Dinner out with friends :-) I look at this as my reward for having a good week!
For more menu plans and ideas check this out...
3. Lastly, here is my laundry update... so since I was out of laundry soap for about a week I am behind on laundry again :-(
Oh well, let's see how far I can get today!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Menu Planning Monday
Whoa! So let's try this again! I keep trying to keep on track with Menu Planning Monday... but weeks will go by before I post them again!
Here's our plan:
Monday - Shrimp Scampi over Spaghetti noodles
Tuesday- Puerto Rican Arroz con Salchicha (Rice with weinies (sp?)), habichuelas (beans), and chuletas (pork chop). First time making so we'll see how that goes!
Wednesday - Baked fish with veggies and rice
Thursday - Pizza (got a good deal at Albertsons LOL)
Friday - Caldo de Res ( I know it's not Fall yet especially here in AZ but I am craving some good yummy soup!)
To see what everyone else is doing for Menu Planning Monday, go here :-)
Have a good week!
Here's our plan:
Monday - Shrimp Scampi over Spaghetti noodles
Tuesday- Puerto Rican Arroz con Salchicha (Rice with weinies (sp?)), habichuelas (beans), and chuletas (pork chop). First time making so we'll see how that goes!
Wednesday - Baked fish with veggies and rice
Thursday - Pizza (got a good deal at Albertsons LOL)
Friday - Caldo de Res ( I know it's not Fall yet especially here in AZ but I am craving some good yummy soup!)
To see what everyone else is doing for Menu Planning Monday, go here :-)
Have a good week!
Friday, August 7, 2009
First week of Homeschool!
So far so good! I can say that it's going...well we are not doing too bad.
I ordered our curriculum from Sonlight and it was sooo worth the investment. Lil Dude is doing the Preschool 4,5 level and Lil G is doing the Core 1+2 History with the Mesa Distance Learning program. I've been supplementing some additional things here and there as I see needed, but it is totally rocking! Exhausting... but rocking. We have a memory verse each week, read a Bible story daily and are totally intaking a whole lot of stuff.
I feel so blessed to be homeschooling...I love it and can't wait until another successful year!
Love,
Love,
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Fun night out!
Awwww I love this picture! This was taken over at the Blazin M Ranch Dinner Show. We went for my brother's birthday and had a blast!
Here are some more pics from the fun night!
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