Menu Plan Monday-Freezer Meals

I am linking up with I'm An Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.  Although, I have planned menus the last couple weeks, I have not linked up.  Life kind of got away from me.



These next two weeks will be a bit unusual.  I will not be around for dinners for the next two weeks.  I am off to Ethiopia on Wednesday morning. Read more about that here.

I have prepared several freezer meals for my MIL who will be helping my husband with the kids while I am away.  These are in no particular order but wanted to share what I made along with the recipes.


Freezer Meals:

Beef Stroganoff
Chicken N Stuffing
Cheesy Ham & Noodles (this is a fav)
Tuna Casserole

I will post these recipes in separate posts so check back shortly.

I then stocked the refrigerator and made a list of several other easy to prepare meals for grandma to whip up.

Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce & Green Beans
Chili & Cornbread
Lasagna & Corn
Hot Dogs & French Fries
Grilled Cheese & Tomoto Soup


If you are new to my blog, make sure to check back these next two weeks to share in my journey as I travel to Ethiopia.  I will be sharing lots of stories and pictures of the people in the villages that I meet.

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Ready As I Will Ever Be

Everyone keeps asking, are you ready?  Are you packed?  Do you have everything?  Are you scared?  Are you nervous?

And I say, "I am as ready as I will ever be."

I am sure I will forget something. 

I am sure I will forget to do something at work and all heck will break lose. 

I am 150% certain that the house is not as organized and as clean as I would like it to be before I leave.

But I am heading out the door to yonder parts of the world regardless. 

I am a bit nervous for the long flight. 

I am a bit anxious for leaving my family.

I am a bit scared for the adventure I am about to embark on.

But I am heading out the door to yonder parts of the world regardless of all my uncertainty, fears, anxieties. 

I have been given an opportunity that not to many people get and I am going to make the best of it.  And that is all that I can wish and hope for.

I am not going to eradicate extreme poverty.  I am not going to change the world.  Cure cancer.

But I will hopefully change a few lives of the people in the villages I meet. 

And I am 150% certain I will be changed forever.

I leave you with this.


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.~ Mark Twain



New to my blog?  Want to know where I am going?  Read this or this.



The Final Countdown

It is the final countdown.

I will be leaving on a jet plane in just under a week to an unknown land.  A land on the other side of the world. 

A land filled with strife and unfulfilled needs that I can not even fathom to imagine.

But I will not have to imagine for much longer.  I will be there walking along side of the people of Garmaam and Hurso sharing their stories.  The stories of their needs, their desires, their dreams, their happiness, their sadness.  I will be sharing it all.  The good, the bad and the ugly.

I hope you all come with me on this journey.

New to my blog?  Want to read about what led me to take this trip to Ethiopia?  Read this.

I am linking this post to Diaries of a Grumpy Grateful Mom
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Confessions Of A Non Superwoman #17

Hello we meet again. 


1.  If I have to vacuum up another bowl of *dumped* cat food I am going to scream!  Why oh why must my daughter like to dump the cat food almost every time?  Really?

2.  My to do list for things I need TO DO before I leave on my trip has reproduced like a rabbit.  Seriously, the list is like two pages long and there is no possible way that I am going to get through everything. 

3.  I pulled out my luggage this past weekend and there it sits, empty, in our hallway for us to trip over.  I know I still have some time to pack but I would really like to be organized and not procrastinate.  Nice thought, huh?

4.  Kaylyn the toilet paper is for in the bathroom, not to unravel and decorate the house with.  Uggh!  Yet another mess to clean up.  It is NEVER.ENDING. Calgon take me away...

5.  I have only decided on 4 freezer meals for while I am gone, so far.  Need help.  Any ideas?  I really don't want to be cooking all this weekend but I also don't want my family to eat out of a box or take out the whole time I am gone.  Hmm, what to do.  Maybe a frozen lasagna?  Corn dogs?  They would probably love that.

Any confessions you want to share?  Pretty please so I don't feel so alone.