Tired Mommy Tales

The countdown to Turkey Day is on. And like many others in America, I’m focused on my Thanksgiving menu. But from what I understand, I still need to feed my family the rest of the days this week too. However, I’m giving myself plenty of grace and keeping it simple.

Although two weeks ago, I came up with a great solution for feeding the girls and I in the short window before an extra-curricular activity, I’m planning to hit up the drive thru. We spent Saturday at Dollywood and Sunday we were all really spent and so doing lots of food prep just wasn’t a priority.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice other things to maintain your sanity. Let’s just hope it don’t regret it in a day or two!!!

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Meal Plan

Breakfast

Eggs in some form on school/work days
Biscuits & Gravy
Pancakes/Waffles

Lunch

Broccoli/Cheddar Soup
Salad
Thanksgiving Dinner Leftovers

Dinner

Drive-thru
Meatballs & Noodles
3-Cheese Macaroni & Cheese
Thanksgiving Dinner!!!
Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes
Stadium Fare at the Vols Football Game

This menu plan is linked to Org Junkie’s Menu Plan Monday link up.

Weekly Goals

Mail a “Thinking of You” note to a friend – I bought the cards but haven’t mailed them
Bible study 5 of 7 mornings – I kept up with my Bible reading plans. A WIN!!!
Lunches packed at night – I’m going to scratch this from my goals for right now. I might try it again in the future but right now, packing lunches in the morning isn’t a huge deal. I would still need to put the final touches on them in the morning so it feels like it would be double work to an extent.
2 blog posts & 1 YouTube video posted – Technically yes, but since one of the blog posts was also the YouTube video I’m not going to count it. So one blog & one video
Schedule social media posts every night – I started strong at the beginning of the week again and trailed off at the end :o(
Walk at least 20 minutes 3 of 5 workdays and at least 1 weekend day – I don’t think I did this once – eep!! I’m still working on setting aside time on my calendar each day
One Fit2be session each day (at least 10 minutes) – I haven’t figured out the best place to put this on my schedule

I’m going to keep these same goals for next week minus the lunch packing.