Tad and I are back in town after a wonderful weekend at Family Life’s Weekend to Remember marriage conference. We enjoyed our time together so much, and the conference really gave us good teaching and helped establish a lot of healthy patterns in our marriage. We were so blessed to be able to attend, and we were grateful that because Tad is a pastor, we were able to go for free! I’m hoping that sometime soon I will be able to blog about some of the teaching we received this weekend. Tad might even join in!

Last week I don’t think I made half of the meals that I planned to since I was so sick. I’m still not feeling great, but I am definitely doing better and I am thankful for medicine!

Here are my menus for this week. We definitely did better on our grocery bill this week. I saved about $8 with coupons, which may not seem like a lot, but I was excited. Hey, if I can save $8 every week for a year, I would save $416! Hoping that I will be able to continue to become a coupon mom so that I can be the best steward of our finances that I can.

Monday
Lunch: chicken and rice soup; focaccia bread; fruit salad
Dinner: beef stir fry; rice

Tuesday
Breakfast: pancakes; syrup
Lunch: grilled chicken sandwiches
Dinner: chicken fettuccine alfredo; basil parmesan puffs

Wednesday
Breakfast: cereal; blueberry muffins
Lunch: peanut butter and jelly (yeah, I was out of ideas)
Dinner: homemade spinach and turkey pizza

Thursday
Breakfast: eggs and bacon
Lunch: leftovers (Tad gone for lunch)
Dinner: spaghetti with meat sauce; bread; caesar salads

Friday
Breakfast: bacon muffins (for Tad); yogurt (for me)
Lunch: leftovers
Dinner: beef shish-kabobs; rice

Saturday
Breakfast: scrambled eggs and cheese
Lunch: BLTs (Tad’s favorite lunch)
Dinner: TBD

I found menu planning to be a struggle today, not because I don’t like cooking or can’t think of things to make, but because I have NO appetite because of my cold! It’s hard to decide what to cook when nothing “sounds good”! I think we still did okay, anyway.

Think Tad and I are going to spend some time together before dinner and make blended frappes.