I am so sorry!

I am so sorry for being absent. I didn't realize how much of my time homeschooling was going to take up . It has also been a good break for me. I am not going to promise I will update everyday, but I am going to update as often as possible.

My daughter started her special needs soccer league last night and it is going to be so good for her! She is really concentrating on what the coach is saying. She is so excited for this, I am so glad that this league exist. It is also nice she knows several of the kids already!

I am excited because husband and I are going away for the weekend with some friends. my mom is watching the kids . My husband needs this break so much between working almost 4o hours of overtime and going to school at night he is exhausted!

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I am back!!! yeah, it has been a nice break though. If you have a blog then you will understand, sometimes it gets to feel like a chore and you need to step away for a while. Also we started homeschooling this year , which is new for us, I needed time to figure out what I was doing.

What is so awesome since I have started homeschooling my son seems to be doing so much better in math. He really just needed the extra time to work on it that he wasn’t getting in school.  I hope all continues to go well, but so far I am not regretting pulling him out of school!

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Hey, sorry have been so spuratic with posting. Getting kids ready to start school with one being homeschooled this year. This is my first year homeschooling so there has been a lot of research so I am going to take a bloggoing break until next week and I will be back, just need to get my feet back on the ground!

Menu Plan Monday

 

Monday: Hamburger Helper

Tuesday:  homemade pierogis and grilled kielbasa

Wednesday: grilled chicken and a veggie

Thursday: Spaghetti and Garlic Bread

Friday: Homemade Grilled Pizza

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Today I ask all of you for your prayers. My mother has to take my grandmother who is 81 to the doctor because something showed up on an chest xray. This was not there the last time but it showed up now. The nurse didn’t say what it was but that it was serious. 

None of this really suprises me because she is 81 and has smoked all of her life. She also has alzheimers and my mother was in the process of placing her in a nursing home when this was found. My mother is the one that needs this strength. She is an only child so she has no one but me and my sister to lean on!

Had a good weekend didn’t do much . Got some cleaning out done, still have some more to do. I need to go get my daughter some new shoes for school and a back pack since it starts thursday. I start homeschooling my soon this week so I ask prayers for that one.

Made some banana bread last night and it is so delish! Made one with chocolate chips and one without.

 

Banana Bread

3 Medium Bannanas mashed

1/2 cup of chopped nuts

1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp of baking powder

1/4 tsp of baking soda

1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon

3/4 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of oil

1 egg

optional 1/4 to 1/2 cup of chocolate chips!

In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder, soda and cinnamon together and set aside.

In another bowl mix egg, oil, mashed banana’s and sugar.

Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and gently fold in the dry ingredients. Do not overmix, mixture should be lumpy!  pour into bread pan.

In a preheated 350 oven bake for approximately 60 minutes for a typical sized bread pan!

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Last night was my bday party. It was a lot of fun. Had a couple of friends over and my parents.  Had grilled chicken, potato salad and then either German chocolate or strawberry cake. It was delish!  Got a framed print that I have been wanting.

Today, need to stay at the house and get some cleaning done. I would love to go to some garage sales but don’t really need to spend the money right now.

Start homeschooling my 13 year old this week. This will be his first year and will see how that goes. I need to sit down and start writing out a schedule. Those that homeschool how do you schedule your day?

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Where have I been!

 

Where have I been? Facebook! Oh my goodness that is so addictive. I love all those games and there is so much to do. I guess I am really behind in the times. So the last couple of days I couldn’t really pull myself away from page.!

So yesterday was my B-day (33) and It was such a nice day. Started out with my husband taking the day off and taking me and my kids and mother and grandma to breakfast. Then we went grocery shopping. When we got through we stopped at this new gourmet cupcake shop that just opened and I got this strawberry daiqury  cupcake YUMMY!  We came home and did not do anything!

Speaking of the cupcake shop. I was telling someone yesterday, that is one thing I would love to do. I would love to own a cupcake, cookie, brownie, and bar bakery. I love to bake and would love to make a career out of it.

 

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Menu Plan Monday

Monday: Chicken Tortilla’s  and Spanish Rice with Homemade Tortilla’s

Tuesday: Black Eyed Peas with Corn bread

Wednesday: Baked Ham and Scalloped Potatoes

Thursday Leftovers

Friday: Homemade Pizza

 

We had such a great time Saturday night. We went to Outback Steak House for a friends Birthday. She was really suprised. We had the tenderloin with mashed potatoes and stuffed shrimp and I had the chocolate thunder dessert.

This week is going to be tight with groceries. We are really trying to get our budget together so I ask for your prayers that we can stick to this even if it gets tough because I really want to get my debts paid off.

I am really trying to do more of my cooking completely from scratch! Hope it all works out! I have also went back in some archives at org junkie and reading how to organize your recipes and they have some really awesome tips! here is the past recipe organization round up!

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