Menu Plan Monday: July 5th

This week's dinner plans are considerably more simple than last week's. I was a little exhausted from all the cooking by the weekend. Last week was good though, all of our meals were yummy. I tried a new seasoning for turkey burgers and we all really liked them.

Here's what's on the plan for this week:

Monday: I asked Mr. B for his dinner ideas and "baked potatoes" was his first response. He loves them! So we'll be having a Baked Potato Bar (reminds me of college days), complete with fresh chives from the garden.

Tuesday: Breakfast Burritos are a family fave, but we usually eat them at my parent's. So I thought I'd surprise Vince by fixing them at home this week.

Wednesday: We have sort of developed a Wednesday tradition: Tostadas. We all love them and it's sort of buffet-style. Plus they are so easy to make before heading off to church.

Thursday: I thought I'd introduce the kiddos to one of my childhood faves: Macaroni & Tomatoes--have you ever tried them? Delish! This will be a meatless meal. I plan to make whatever veggies I find at the Farmers' Market in the morning.

Friday: {small group nite} Deviled Eggs and Red, White & Blue Salad

Saturday: I always like a very easy recipe for Saturday nights, because I'm usually not in the mood to do much cooking after our weekend activities. We're having the Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes~everyone liked them last time. We'll have P-Dub's Onion Strings with them.

Happy Cooking to you this week!

This post is linked to Menu Plan Monday at I'm an Organizing Junkie.

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat ...

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while. It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it. However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it. Plus it's a little bulky. When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it! It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make. I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course. They have these little wooden door hangers for .79. I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each. I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing. I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had). Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will ...

Making Notebooks

Recently I tried out a new craft idea~and it was SO much fun!! And extremely frugal, too. That's always a bonus, right? So here we go: 1. Take your basic composition notebook (purchased at the back-to-school sales for .99 each). 2. Go to your craft supplies and get your Mod Podge ready, along with a good paintbrush. 3. Look through all those scrapbook papers you've been randomly collecting and choose some. 3. After choosing your paper for the cover of your book and trimming it to fit, start *painting* the cover with the glue. Next, give the back of your paper a good coat of glue, too. (I left the binding uncovered so that I could use a contrasting paper there later on). 4. Glue it on! Remember to smooth out any air bubbles under the paper. 5. Flip the cover open and make a few cuts on the corners so that they will fold over nice and neat, then add a little more glue to the edges of the inside cover and a little more to the paper edges. 6. Fold them over and press...

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