Monthly Archives: August 2020

Monday Menu Plan

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I start back to work next Monday… one week from today…. I am not excited. This week our church is holding Vacation Bible school in the evenings. Everyone is involved in some fashion. I also planned on some extra down time in order to feel like I actually had a vacation. The theme of the week is quick and cool.

Breakfast– Saturday-Muffins from Costco Sunday- Bacon,biscuits and eggs Monday- , Tuesday,  Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-choice of breakfast muffins, eggs, sausage, oatmeal, cereal or grits, breakfast burritos, bagels or omelets or tomato sandwich

Lunch-  Saturday- Sliders of your choice Sunday- Salad or wraps Monday- egg rolls from school Tuesday- corn dogs Wednesday- depends on where the kids chose . Thursday- wraps or sandwich , Friday- good question

Dinner-  Saturday-left-overs Sunday- Pasta Salad Monday-Quesadillas Tuesday- Spaghetti and meatballs with homemade pasta sauce Wednesday- ??? not sure yet Thursday- chicken nuggets Friday- hamburgers and French Fries.

Budget Update

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I have been monitoring and working on developing a budget the last couple of weeks. We have had several changes to our expenses and I wanted to start the school year with a solid foundation. I honestly don’t remember and could not find the last time I actually shared a budget. So I am going to do that today.

In the area of income, Matt continues to work full-time and I will start next week back at my school system. I am beginning today some additional work in Guam.

I do not budget my earnings from Guam. The first reason for that is that it can vary greatly from $40 to $1500 a month. After our tithe, we have been using the extra money for home improvements, fun money and travelling specifically Disney trips. This will continue for the remaining months of this year. I anticipate that even our April Disney trip should be completely paid off in December. This gives up a good six months to determine our next priority for the extra money.

Now for the actual budget :

Monthly Expenses Total
Hair100
Gas 500
Offering520
Piano120
Clothing100
Credit Card payments 745
Chores/ House cleaning350
Car Payment436.42
Spending180
AAA/Insurance78
Groceries550
Gifts100
Summer140
Saving25
Mortgage  990.96
Water34
Electric260
Internet147.46
Van Payment 344.03
Verizon343.03
Adobe/Computer 32.09

Recipe Challenge #45

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One of foods that I was having the most difficulty finding a good use for from the school supplied lunches was sweet potatoes. We enjoy maybe one baked sweet potato a month but I was struggling to find another use. It occurred to me yesterday to try and find a recipe for sweet potato fries. After some research, I ended up combining several of the recipes that I had read. I managed to get exactly what I did on this page. We tried a batch at lunch today and they were AWESOME! In fact they were so good that Matt helped me make 5 additional bags to freeze. We did not add the oil and will do this just prior to baking! This is a huge huge win for us!

The official count is
Repeating 23
Maybe 8
No 14

Now only 7 additional recipes to meet my goal!