OAMC

I love Once-a-Month-Cooking! I don't actually do it once a month and I don't use my meals many nights in a row. Instead, I cook once every three months or so. When I do my weekly meal planning, I just plan an OAMC meal for one of those nights each week.

When school starts this fall, I'll be using those OAMC meals on co-op nights. So... with the school year looming, I got together with Tawnya and Amber and we cooked! I have 20 meals now and 4 batches of cookie dough (all balled and ready to go into the oven). It's a great feeling!

I made:

• roast x 2
• manicotti x 4
• oriental chicken x 2
• cheesy chicken x 4
• chicken pot pie x 2
• meatloaf x 4
• tomato sauce x 2
• oatmeal M & M cookies x 2
• chocolate chip cookies x 2

Kjersten stayed home to help us! Here she is with Tawnya.

Garage Sale

Well, in the interest of clearing out some of the prolific clutter and making a few dollars, we had a garage sale. The other two families in our home group plus another friend, joined with us as we invited complete strangers (and a few friends) to haul our crap home to their house after paying us for it. What a deal!

Unfortunately, last week was really hard for me. I had a talk to do for Women's Ministry. Then I came down with a nasty case of mastitis. I also began watching Christian and Daniel. Ack! If not for the help of Amber, I wouldn't have participated in the garage sale. She came over one morning and with the 10 kids running amok, we prepped for the sale. She is awesome!!!

Cael helping get ready:

Why are they eating on the floor, you ask? Have you seen the kitchen table?

Baby Analise for sale: