Monday Mish Mash and Menu Plan

If you're here for Menu Plan Monday, welcome! The plan is at the end of the post but you are most welcome to grab a coffee and visit.

This morning I could have used a few more minutes of sleep, in fact, I could have probably used a few more hours. Heck, let's throw in a whole day off. I'm still reeling from the busy, busy weekend.

Saturday found me and the kids, with their youth group standing in a parking lot on the edge of town, donning reflective red vests and work gloves and hitting the ditches between here and the next town doing highway clean up. Me with only half a cup of coffee in me in a parking lot at 6:30 a.m. Let me tell you, I was a draggin' and we hadn't even started. The youth leader, God bless him, bought me a coffee an hour later on one of the gas station bathroom runs. I am forever indebted. A word of advice if you ever do a highway cleanup or have to walk for 6 1/2 hours in one direction in any circumstance, when applying your sunscreen in the morning, DON'T FORGET TO APPLY IT TO YOUR NECK! And if your partner, who is lugging a huge bottle of the stuff in a little backpack, offers you some at least 3 times throughout the morning, TAKE IT and stop telling her you've already applied. Because if you don't take the offered sunscreen you will have a very lovely, very painful, very obvious, glaring "farmer's" sunburn on one side of your neck in church the next morning announcing to all your stupidity.

Just saying.

Oh, and another little hint. Make sure you have a massage appointment set up for as soon after as is possible. Your gonna need it. And it will feel like heaven. And you just might almost fall asleep during it. Again, I'm just saying.

After all that, there was still hair appointments to get to and shoes to find and I still don't know exactly what I'm wearing. Sigh. But a little joy and God's blessing was finding a great deal. I love me a great deal and especially now that my budget has seriously been restricted, I found both Kay and my shoes for under $40.00. Payless had their infamous bogo sale on and I got a pair of nice black sandals and Kay some dress flats which she needed for her dress for graduation mass on Friday evening. And hers were on sale, and then the bogo on top of it, I paid all of $6.00 for these adorable shoes. Six bucks. Regular $32.99. Now is that a blessing or what! That kind of a deal almost makes me giddy at the best of times. Now it almost made starting breaking out in the hallelujah chorus at the till. But I restrained myself in order not to embarass Kay.

But seriously, aren't these the cutest things? But, shhh, don't tell Kay that. She doesn't do "cute". So use the word "nice" or "splashy" or something like that. But not cute. Don't use cute.

Sunday found us at a dear friend of Kay's baptism. We had invited her for lunch because her family is not here, but the celebration found that about 5 of their friends showed up to see her baptized. So our little lunch swelled just a touch. Good thing I had this in the crockpot is all I can say!

But with all that, grocery shopping just didn't get done so for Menu Plan Monday I'm sorta flying by the seat of my pants, because I have no idea when I'm going to be able to get to grocery shopping with everything I still need to do this week. Can I say I'm a tad bit tired. Anyhoo, here it is such as it is:

Monday: bbq burgers, buns, coleslaw,

Tuesday: sweet & sour meatballs, rice

Wednesday: chicken breast supreme, noodles, brocolli

Thursday: leftover ham, cheese scalloped potatoes, roasted carrots

Friday: taco salad

Saturday: grad banquet

Sunday: our traditional Kentucky Fried Chicken

Thanks to Laura for hosting MPM's.