Menu Plan Monday - June 8

Last week we mostly stuck to our menu plan, but there were a few meals we didn't get to. Also, the slow cooker lasagna didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. It seems that it got overcooked in my slow cooker. Since I have an older slow cooker that is very limited in its settings I'm now looking for a new programmable one. If you have any recommendations, let me know. I've been trying to cook more with the slow cooker in an effort to save us some time in the evenings.

Here's what I have planned for this week:

Dinners:

• Monday - Omelets and Sausage
• Tuesday - Dinner out (we're looking at houses and won't have time to grab dinner at home)
• Wednesday - Hot Dogs and Macaroni and cheese
• Thursday - Grilled Cheese with Veggie Soup
• Friday - Ham and Pineapple Dinner (carry over from last week)
• Saturday -Slow Cooker Lasagna (we'll try this one again, but will cut off the slow cooker sooner)
• Sunday - Rosemary Pork Chops (carry over from last week)

Breakfasts:

1. Cereal
2. Granola Bars
3. Bananas

Lunches:

1. Leftovers
2. PB&J

To see more delicious menu plans, head over to Org Junkie for all the Menu Plan Monday links.

Wordless Wednesday

Sometimes Daddy likes to make us breakfast on Saturday mornings. On this particular Saturday he made chocolate chip pancakes which Pumpkin obviously loved. What a fun start to the weekend.

For more Wordless Wednesday, head over to 5 Minutes For Mom and Mom Dot.

To Do Tuesday - June 2

This is my second week participating in To-Do Tuesday over at Crazy Adventures in Parenting. It will be interesting to see how many items I actually accomplish this week since I only got two done last week. I know I didn't update my list to check off the items that I completed. I seem to be having problems getting the HTML code for that to work for me. I will try again this week.

Fold Laundry
Put Laundry Away
Daily Blog Posts
Clean out email inbox
Clean out Google Reader
Complete Menu Plan for next week

To see more To-Do Tuesday lists, head over to Crazy Adventures in Parenting.

Talk About Moving

Since this is the first Tuesday of the month, it's Home Tour week over at Talk About It Tuesday. Since our house is up for sale and we're hoping to move by the end of summer I figured I would talk about moving and selling our house. If you want to see some pictures of the inside of our house, check out my Tackle It Tuesday post.

First, let me just say that I hate moving. It's such a hassle and my one dog does not take it well at all. Since we have started boxing up some of our "stuff" and moving it to storage, she has gotten very neurotic. To the point that she is now losing clumps of hair on a daily basis. She did this the last time that we moved and I don't understand it. We try to reassure her, but it doesn't seem to help.

There is so much stress involved in selling your house and looking for a new one. There are so many unknowns. Right now we are planning for this to be our last move for a very long time. Our next house needs to be the one we plan to stay in until we hit retirement. This will be the house that our daughter and any future children grow up in. So we need to love it, or at least the potential of it. We have two prospects right now which is a good thing. Now we just need to get our house under contract.

It's a little sad for us to be saying goodbye to our current home. It's been a great house and it is the house that our daughter first came home to. But hubby and I both feel like it is time for us to move on. The big unknown of where we will be living come fall is a bit stressful. Still, I feel like it will all fall together in time. We're taking a leap of faith here, hopefully we're doing the right thing.

Does anyone out there have any tips on getting your house to sell? I'd love to hear tips and tricks that have worked for others recently. With the way the real estate market is right now we'll take all the help we can get.

For more Talk About It Tuesday, head over to The Lazy Organizer.

Tackle It Tuesday - Cleaning House

This weekend we worked on getting the clutter cleaned out of our house so that it will show well. It's not a lot of fun, but the house does look nice. We packed up another car full of stuff and took it to storage. Plus we did the usual vacuuming, dusting and window cleaning. Yup, I actually cleaned the windows. I did tell my husband not to get use to that. I don't want him getting any ideas once we're in the next house.

Here are some of the pictures of what our house looks like now:

If anyone's looking for a nice townhouse, let me know.

For more Tackle It Tuesday, head over to 5 Minutes For Mom.

Free Redbox Rental - June 1 Only

The code for today's FREE Redbox rental is:

FM63H7

Remember that you can use this code once per debit/credit card, so if you have multiple cards, you can get multiple rentals. You can read about my previous experience using these codes here.

Come back every Monday for the weekly free rental code. This code expires at midnight tonight.

Menu Plan Monday - June 1

Wow, I can't believe that it's June already. This month I am still trying to eat from my pantry in an effort to reduce the amount of food we need to move. Plus it should give us a chance to save money since I'm also cutting our grocery budget.

Last week I didn't get my meal plan completed and we suffered as a result. Evenings were crazy and our dinners were thrown together at the last minute. Talk about stress. So this week we are back to our meal plan. There is enough going on right now, I don't need the stress of figuring out meals at the last minute added to it.

Here's what I have for this week:

Dinners:

• Monday - French Toast
• Tuesday - Potato Chowder
• Wednesday - Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken
• Thursday - Grilled Cheese with Veggie Soup
• Friday - Ham and Pineapple Dinner
• Saturday -Slow Cooker Lasagna
• Sunday - Rosemary Pork Chops

Breakfasts:

1. Cereal
2. Granola Bars
3. Bananas
4. Apples
5. Yogurt

Lunches:

1. Leftovers
2. PB&J

To see more delicious menu plans, head over to Org Junkie for all the Menu Plan Monday links.