Menu Plan Monday ~ Week of December 27th, 2010

Monday evening ~ Chili and cornbread  Leftovers from Christmas- ham, biscuits, pineapple casserole and lima beans

Tuesday evening ~ Chicken Parmesan, salad and bread

Wednesday evening ~ Leftover chili

Thursday lunch ~ Homemade pizza and bread sticks
Thursday evening ~ Chicken pot pie

Friday lunch ~ Leftover pizza
Friday evening ~ New Years Eve!  No cooking for me!

Saturday lunch ~ Leftover chicken pot pie
Saturday evening ~ New Years Meal!  Hamburger steaks with mushroom gravy, rice and a veggie with cornbread

Sunday lunch ~ Soup and corn bread
Sunday evening ~ Taco casserole and chips/sides

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I hope everyone had a healthy and blessed Christmas!  We did and are so thankful for the time with family and to have been healthy.  We have another slow and around home week ahead which suits me just fine.  The kids are loving all their new goodies and I have more than my fair share of household work to do after a lazy and preoccupied few weeks.  Hubbie is off a few days towards the end of the week, so we are anxious to have him back home with us for a restful and family filled Holiday weekend!

I am nearing the end of my 1st trimester and the heartburn has really begun.  I've had it with each pregnancy and I gotta say this one is already starting to be a doozy!  If I do anything that I shouldn't....like drink a coke and eat pizza.... I am in trouble and definitely in need of some heartburn medication!  Besides the heartburn, I've been doing good.  Not too much tiredness.  Not too much yucky feeling...other a few days here or there or if I don't eat for a long period of time.  I don't go back to the doc for a few more weeks and am anxious to hear a heartbeat and to have another confirmation that I am pregnant.... its hard in the early weeks.....  not being able to feel movement, see inside your belly......  I just want to confirm that the babe is healthy and kicking!

We had a late "white Christmas" and it was beautiful!  The snow began around 8 on Sunday morning, so we skipped church and watched the snow fall!  I stayed busy with de-decking the halls and doing some laundry.  We went outside around noon but it wasn't sticking and figured it would be done shortly..... but we were wrong!  After naps, we were thrilled to see that it was STILL snowing and finally sticking!!!  We ran back outside and had a fun snowball fight while Daddy was out running in the 30 degree temps and snow!!!    By 5, the snow had stopped and we had a beautiful landscape of dusting over everything in our yard!