Meal Plans

Produce:

yellow peppers

cameo apples

oranges

eggplant

sweet potatoes

bananas

Meals:

lentil soup (from the freezer)

beef stew (ditto)

pasta with steamed veggies

chicken soup (x2)

pork roast with roasted sweet potatoes and greens (whatever is on sale)

I also want to bake banana bread with some over ripe bananas from last week and (if things calm down around here) make a Moosewood apple crisp with the cameos which requires orange juice which I will squeeze fresh (we really have a lot of oranges).

I am glad that I have so many things stashed away in the freezer for this week, since between Amos's sickness and Daniel's troubles I really have my hands full.  We also have to make a trip into down town to get a copy of Daniel's birth certificate to take to the airport on our trip to Ohio next month, and my husband has a paper due (he is not going to get it in tomorrow, but hopefully before the end of the week he will be up to writing again), and I have not done the food shop for the week.

We have been praying that God will help us to rely on him more and not be anxious, and he is certainly testing us this week.  I guess that is the danger when you ask God to help improve your character -- he gives you what you ask for!

I am working on a post about Lent, but that will have to wait for another day! 

Produce:

red peppers

green leaf lettuce

apples

bosc pears

broccoli

Meals:

chicken fried rice

potato and egg pie with roasted asparagus (on sale at Sprouts!)

pasta primavera

corn chowder and salad

sausage with sauted peppers and onions

tacos

Today I baked two loaves of bread, one for us and another to give (along with some of the corn chowder and a salad) to some neighbors who recently had a little girl.  I will hopefully have time tomorrow afternoon to bake some lemon squares for them as well.

This weekend my husband and I are going to go out on our first real date since August.  Some other neighbors offered (completely out of the blue) to watch Daniel for the evening so we could go out to celebrate Valentines Day.  We have never been much into Valentines Day (with the notable exception of the year that Amos plotted from Rome to have a friend in New Hampshire give me a dozen roses on his behalf) but free baby sitting is free baby sitting!  I am a little nervous to be leaving the little fellow, since he is exclusively breast fed and has never even tried a bottle, but I think it will be ok.  He has been going to sleep at between 7 and 7:30 and having his first waking between 10 and midnight, so we are going to have an early dinner at home and then go out for dessert.  I am really excited for a chance to dress up without having to think of the logistics of breastfeeding!