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meal planning monday

aahhhh meal planning monday, i love it soooooo much!  in fact, i love it so much that i started planning it last week.  i know, freakish…

monday – chicken pie…this is, without a doubt, one of my FAV meals!!!  i will alter it a bit to make it healthier (which means less butter, lol…also instead of using buttermilk i use skim milk with a tsp of vinegar in it)…

tuesday – french onion soup…my fav soup EVER…absolute comfort food…jade likes it, joey does not…i will use low-sodium broths and cut the butter way down to make it diet friendly…

wednesday – fairly sure we’ll have some leftovers to eat up…and i’m certainly not going to complain about eating chicken pie or french onion soup again (although the littles will both complain…and probably opt for hot pockets)

thursday – grilled fish and baked potatoes…SUPER healthy, love that!  also love how quick it is…i buy gortons garlic butter grilled fillets, only 100 calories per fillet with 17 g protein!!! 

friday – grocery night which means out to dinner with the littles…

saturday – crispy fried tacos, yellow rice, nachos with cheese and perhaps  not fried ice cream…sure do love me some mexican food…i have to add saturday is my “off” diet day, so that’s why this dinner is NOT diet friendly…

sunday – bbq chicken, pugutch and broccoli with cheese…i have to tell you, this bbq chicken is INSANELY good, for real…and pugutch is just good comfort food, i will cheat and use crescent rolls and instant potatoes…yummo!  i will use low fat crescent rolls and fat free cheddar cheese to make it healthier.

out for now
~kisses

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why worry…

i deal with fears, insecurities and worries on a daily basis.  i feel the first pang of fear and think “i am NOT going to be afraid or worry, i’m just going to pray about it”.  and what do i end up doing?  worrying about it anyways.  i give it to Him and then i take it right back.  why is it so hard for us to trust that He will do what is best for us at the right time?

i read somewhere that 95% of the things we worry about never happen, and the other 5% are things over which we have absolutely no control.  so why do we worry so much?  it doesn’t add years to our life, improve our quality of life or solve the problem at hand.  but yet, we keep at it, day after day.

in the new year i’m trying to pray more and worry less…to trust and believe that He will do what is best for me in His time. 

don’t be a doubting thomas…rest fully on his promise…why worry…when you can pray…

1 John 4:18 ~ There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

out for now
~kisses

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lots-o-laughing

so it’s no secret, my family likes loves to laugh…and sometimes the littles and i just can’t help ourselves (even though it makes joe mad on occasion)…last weekend we went to altoona and stopped in at the pet store, joe went to find someone to help him and the kids and i went directly to the animals.  these hampsters just about killed us…it was a pile of about 4 hampsters, all sleeping on top of each other…some of them couldn’t hardly be seen…we laughed SUPER hard at their little hampster snouts pushed up against the glass…i’m sure everyone in the store thought we were crazy…i HAD to take a pic of them…
i’m off to the warehouse-o-creepy today…
out for now
~kisses
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