Menu Plan 9/8/14

What a great week.

• ODS commented on Wednesday night that this was his favorite year of school yet. That he really looks forward to each day. We've always felt blessed that 99% of the time school wasn't a battle with him, but it's great that he's feeling it too. 
• Got all the paperwork filled out and turned in for YDS to start preschool today.
• They boys and I finished our round of dental cleanings and we're all part of the No Cavity Club for another 6 months. 
• Got to see my sister for another day. It flew by way to quick and she had to head home, but I'm so glad she had time to stop on her way to and from her visit to our brothers place. 
• YDS started swimming lessons. He's super confident in the water now. I know ODS was about his age when he tried to convince me we'd be safe if the bad guys came, because he could protect me. I was starting to imagine YDS using this same level of confidence to decide he could swim. Just because he wanted to. So now he's taking swimming lessons so I don't have to have nightmares. And so he can have more fun when we do get to real pools.
• Oh, and we had YDS' birthday party. 
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Pretty relaxed week food wise. Trying to use up the massive amounts of veggies in the fridge. Did a lot of chopping & freezing too. 

Monday~ Holiday. We had the free hotel breakfast, then grabbed fast food on the way home. Dinner was an exciting meal of leftover pizza. We were all still in way lazy mode.

Tuesday~ My sister came back through town. To celebrate her birthday and YDS' birthday this month we went all out and rode our bikes to get Frozen Yogurt for dinner. She thought I meant for dessert after dinner. That didn't sound nearly as special/memory making to me. It was delicious, and super fun, and only a little guilty feeling since we rode bikes there.

Wednesday~ I forgot to take a picture of the cauliflower we got in our CSA a week or two ago. It was HUGE! Like the size of two or three that you would see in the grocery store. I decided to make a soup out of it for dinner. I very loosely followed this recipe. (loosely because I didn't really measure, and used actual animal by product. Including the cheese and turkey bacon I added when it was done.) YUM! Even YDS snarfed it down, and he took a good long time in the morning trying to convince me to make something else because he doesn't like cauliflower OR soup. Or rolls. I made Rolls too. Anyway. I only used about half the head of cauliflower on Wednesday.
Thursday~ Chicken stir fry. Gotta use up the bok choy and other yummy veg in my fridge.
Friday~ Crock Pot pork roast. I canned some pickled banana peppers the other week, so I threw a pint of them on top. DH had it on leftover rolls from Wednesday. YDS and I had it shredded on egg noodles. ODS was out with friends and said he wasn't hungry when he got home. 
Saturday~ FFYS. DH and YDS grabbed something on a short roadtrip in the morning. We had pizza at YDS' bday party for lunch. They boys snarfed leftover pizza for dinner. DH and I snuck out for a quick dinner date at an Indian food joint in the city.
Sunday~  Dh whipped up a batch of waffles for breakfast. It's nice to have some leftovers to feed the boys before school to break up the monotony of cold cereal they so enjoy. Lunch was FFYS. With some ??? to celebrate National Acorn Squash day for dinner.