DohDohBird

We are in a tough time this month and I find myself needing to dig deep in my treasure chest of food dollar stretching knowledge.

Here's what I have for the rest of April:

Meat-
pork shoulder roast (cooking tomorrow, good for 2+ meals, 3 if I'm careful)
pork chops (enough for two meals)
a whole chicken ...

• Packing
• Teaching
• Cleaning
• Reuniting with my husband
• Running To & Fro (swimming, ballet, art class, volleyball, AWANA, more)
• Church
• Pets
• Housework!!!
• Planning
• Coordinating a move
• Cooking
• More teaching (oh, with a new curriculum, which took some getting used to)
• Playing outside (nice weather!)
• More housework
• More Packing
• More

...

On Friday, my girls are going in for their shot updates. Blech. I hate, hate, hate taking them to get shots. I think they are slightly behind on them, so it's time to get them done. Any ideas for making it better for them? They are five and ten years old.

I home school.

I use a curriculum most of the time, but I also stray from it and do the occasional unit study or unschooling.

In January, we are going to study horses and honey, and are also going to make and learn about:

• play dough
• bath bombs
• bath coloring
• silly putty and ooblek
• soap

...because ...

I don't set new year's resolutions, but I do set goals for me to accomplish between Christmases. Same thing, but without the new year's pressure.

Here are mine for this year...

1. Read 100 books. This is not mission impossible for me.

2. Work up to exercising 5 days per week, taking weekends off.
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