I actually have a menu, or at least a list of recipes to make this week!  I made it last Wednesday as I sat in the car, waiting for my 11yo to finish his piano lesson.  The piano teacher’s house is between our house and town, but not really close enough to anything to actually run any errands.  It has worked out pretty well though, as I usually use the time to clean out the car, read a book (not very productive with four little one climbing around!), or make other plans.  This week I thought far enough in advance to bring my cookbooks and make a list of recipes I wanted to make this week!  Here it is:

Hamburger Soup with Barley
Taco Soup with Black Beans 
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Evie’s Spanish Rice
Tostadas
Empanada Pie
Italian Style Shepherd’s Pie

All of these are new recipes too!  I love trying new recipes.  Last week, I also made steak, overnight mashed potatoes, garlic bread, salad, and German Chocolate Cake on Friday night for dh’s birthday; leftovers with frozen pizza on Saturday night, and then dh and I made tacos on Sunday night.

Tonight, I tried the Taco Soup recipe.  It was in my Fix It and Forget It crockpot recipe book, on page 36 for those of you who have that book.  It was scrumptious!!  I made cornbread to go with it, and we put cheese and sour cream on top of the soup.  It has more of a chili than a soup consistency.  SO good!

Tomorrow will have to be something simple though, as my 7yo has an eye appointment tomorrow at 4:30pm, and then we will probably just stay in town until Boy Scouts at 6:30pm.  I need to pick up new piano books for my 11yods anyway.

That reminds me…I need to work on cutting out wolf profiles and letters from some fleece I picked up at JoAnn’s for my 7yods’s Cub Scout den to make their flag.  I bought 1 yard of $3/yard thick tan khaki material, which needs to be hemmed for the actual flag.  Then I picked up some fleece on a 40% off sale: gray for the wolf profiles and goldish orange for the letters.  I figure I will cut out letters to spell out: Pack 367 Wolf Den 2007.  Then the boys can draw faces on their wolves along with their name, and glue them onto to khaki material.  It only cost me about $6 total!  I also bought 3 bottles of craft glue at $.99/each.  I am dealing with 10 extremely wild 8yo boys …well, actually 8 wild ones, and 2 mellow ones, the two homeschooled ones!  

Dh is reading a P.B. Bear book to the little kids right now with a heavy Scottish accent.  It’s hilarious!  He is so funny!  The older two boys are even being entertained!

Oh, and my 2yo just flushed his favorite bathtub duckie named George down the toilet.  He is crying, "I want to see George again!"  Hard lessons…