We had a nice weekend up in the mountains are back getting into the swing of things after our fall break.  This week is going to be absolutely crazy because my mom is now in the hospital and my nephew comes home from Scottish Rite on Friday!  We are so excited to have him back home.  I’ll have some of the cousins this week in addition to mine so we will have a grand time!

This week will be pretty easy for simplicity sake.

Monday: Black Beans and Rice

Tuesday: Chili

Wednesday: Hamburgers, broccoli

Thursday: Spaghetti

Friday: Create your own salad

Saturday: Sandwiches

Sunday: Dinner with church friends

 

To be honest, I get really confused at times when I’m reading my Bible and trying to piece everything together.  I often struggle to remember who wrote what and when.  I’ve been using the  Book-By-Book Bible Printables from Teach Sunday School to better understand the Bible as a whole.  I didn’t grow up attending church, so sometimes it’s hard keeping up with our Sunday School classes and such.  I have found Book-By-Book Printables to be very helpful to remind myself about the background of the books of the Bible.

Available as a PDF download, purchasers will find a page dedicated to each book in the Bible in this file.  On each sheet, you’ll find the proper name of the book, dates it was written, who wrote it, and many other fascinating tidbits and facts.  Famous verses and important points of the book are also listed.  This is such a wonderful and useful resource!

In our church’s community group, we are currently studying Romans.  I have found it helpful to flip through the Book-by-Book Bible Printables to the page on Romans to quickly remind myself of the background of the book.  As you can see below, the Romans sheet let me know that it’s the 6th book in the New Testament and was written by Apostle Paul around 56 AD.  The “Claims to Fame” were pretty cool to learn that Romans contains the most popular and famed salvation scriptures.

I’ve also let my kids flip through it and it has helped bring the Bible more to life for them by seeing more of the context of each book.  I’m very glad to have found this and will definitely be referencing it many times in the future.

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Sorry there isn’t a picture on this post- I haven’t taken many this past week!  We had a nice weekend – short, but nice.  The neighborhood pool we go to closed today for the season so we’ve been spending time out there soaking in the last bit of summer.  My husband also started back on day shift this past week so that’s been so nice having him around.  I’m going to try to get back into eating healthier again since life is settling for a short while.

Here’s what we are planning to make this week:

Monday: Dinner Out

Tuesday: Grilled Chicken, Sweet Potatoes, broccoli

Wednesday: BBQ, green beans

Thursday: Omelettes

Friday: Pork chops, brussel sprouts

Saturday: Chili

Sunday: Leftovers

 

A while back, I told ya’ll about the Chick-Fil-A Mealtime Kits that are now being offered in many restaurants.  I’m happy to say that thanks to my local Chick-Fil-A’s instagram contest, I won 2 of their kits.  We tried the Chicken Parmesan and Chicken Enchiladas.  These exact kits are no longer available in the restaurants.  They have two new ones out now!  Currently available are the Chicken Flatbread and the Pan Roasted Chicken.

Anyway, back to the ones we were given to try.  The first thing I noticed was how simple they were to put together.  Each kit was complete with the exception of a little oil for the pans.  I was able to put together both of these meals in about 30 minutes.

I really like that the kits both had little notes included that would be helpful to get kids involved in the cooking process.  So sweet to have that little information nugget added.

Here you can see our finished products!  Although each the meals said they were meant for 2 people, we were able to stretch sampling both meals on the same night through our family of 7 by simply adding a side salad.  The result?  Everyone loved both!  Comparing the 2, overall I think the chicken parmesan won for me!  The kids were very happy with them, too.  The chicken enchiladas would be a very close second.

We’ve sampled other meal kits from online programs and I feel that the Chick-Fil-A Mealtime Kits are very comparative and extremely tasty!  Both meals had a ton of flavor!  I’m hoping the chicken parmesan one comes back around again.  I will definitely be getting it again if it does!

More info:

Interested in picking up a Mealtime Kit?  Contact your local restaurant to check on availability.

Have you tried the Chick-Fil-A Mealtime Kits?  If so, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!  

This weekend was ok and relaxing for the first half and then quickly went crazy.  I took one child who felt sick at church to urgent care and they were diagnosed with a sinus infection and upper respiratory infection.  Got home from there and another child started having severe side pain and we ended up in the ER.  Fortunately it’s nothing too serious, but requires follow ups and can be treated in a physician’s office instead of the ER.  She was much happier with some good pain meds and antibiotics.  Now lets hope that we don’t end up with something worse from being in those facilities yesterday!  We have friends coming down with the stomach bugs so YIKES that it’s going around already!  Going to try to keep pumping my kids with vitamin C, fresh air and sunshine, and some ACV.

Here’s what we are making this week:

Monday: Grilled chicken, brown rice, steamed veggies

Tuesday: Dinner with friends

Wednesday: Unstuffed Pepper Medley

Thursday: Burgers, veggies

Friday: Egg Casserole, sausage

Saturday: Pizza

Sunday: Leftovers

What are you having this week?

 

 

Last night some friends and I went out to dinner and discussed homeschool stuff.  One thing that come up was how to handle the physical education requirements as homeschoolers.  In Georgia, we are required to have a semester of PE, which works out to be 60 hours.  One mom, who has had several kids graduate already, explained how she fulfilled this requirement.  She had her children keep a physical activity log.  I googled and couldn’t find something that I liked to keep records so I had my sister-in-law come up with something for us.

I wanted it to just list the date, workout, time length, and notes.  She came up with something that works perfectly to record activities for our high school requirements.  You can click on the Physical Activity logs below to print:

Since we have a 10th grader, we definitely need to get moving on the physical education graduation requirement.  Things we are recording for her PE credit requirement are the tennis lessons that she is currently taking, trips to the roller skating rink, walks, workouts in the basements, dance, etc.  With the printable activity log, we can keep track and the hours will add up quickly!

We had a pretty good weekend.  My middle daughter and I spent Saturday together down at the World of Coca-Cola and Georgia Aquarium for Educator’s Open House.  It was a great time together.  Afterward, we went and visited my nephew at Scottish Rite. Hopefully in a couple weeks, he can come home.

Here’s our meal plan for the week:

Monday: Good Grub from the THM Cookbook

Tuesday: Pizza

Wednesday: Buffalo Chicken Dip, Celery and veggies to dip

Thursday:  Enchiladas

Friday: Lazy Lasagna

Saturday: Grilled chicken salads

Sunday: Chili

I found the coolest gift for my son’s 3rd birthday!  He’s a huge fan of cars, trucks, planes, helicopters, and all construction vehicles.  I was trying to find something for him without breaking the budget and I came across this Big Dig Ride-On Crane!  It had great reviews so I thought this would be perfect for him.

To make his little play area, we went to Lowe’s and bought some of the garden edging pieces.  From there, we went to look at the rocks and play sand.  Our Lowe’s offers broken bags for 50% off. Yours might as well – just ask an associate.  We found some of the pea gravel open and got a few bags.  Once we got home, it took only about 5-10 minutes to create the little area for him to play in.

The “Construction Zone” was really easy to put together and helped fill in a low spot in our yard as well.  And look at that smile!  Totally worth it!  We can use his other dump trucks and cars to play in the gravel, too.  I think he pretty much spent the whole rest of the day in his Construction Zone with the exception of mealtime.  Even the big kids are enjoying it!

Looking for a deal?  Amazon has the Big Dig Ride-On Crane down to $34.99 right now.  Pretty good deal to me!