1/20 - 126 Goals

This is getting a bit ridiculous.  I can not seem to get motivated to do anything.  I did purchase all the birthday cards but that is it.  I didn't even get laundry done this weekend.  I barely spun anything, not even an ounce.  I didn't pressure can on Sunday nor did I prep anything.  Not sure what is up with my slacking behind but I've got to get this corrected.  I did start Paul's peradiddle hat but didn't do a project bag or anything. 

Family / Wife / Friends

• Sign and prep birthday cards for sending.
• Send January birthday cards

Feed my Soul

• General spinning and knitting
• Take purge yarn to store to give away

Homesteading / Sunday Yumday

• Sunday Yumday - pressure can chicken
• Prep week's worth of lunch stuff for me and the kids

I'm going to put a little pressure on myself to get some Sunday Yumday task completed this week. 

1/13 - 1/19 Goals

I didn't accomplish most of the goals I set for myself last week.  I totally lost the wind from my sails.  Let's see I can do this week.  I did get our family vacation to Walt Disney reserved and I got a little crazy planning for that.  But can ya blame me?! 

Family / Wife / Friends

• Sign and prep birthday cards for sending.
• Send January birthday cards

Feed my Soul

• Sew another project bag
• Fill that project bag with a kit for Paul's Peradiddle hat which includes needles that I might need to buy
• General spinning and knitting

Homesteading / Sunday Yumday

• Sunday Yumday - pressure can chicken

As planning relates to our vacay I did plan all the meals that we will have for our trip.  We will be gone 4 nights but staying in an RV so most meals will be had at "home".  I made a list of all the planned meals and ingredients for those meals.  I marked the meals that I can start stocking up on so the cost of food will not hit all at once.  I purchased a bin to store our trip stockpile of food items.  More about trip planning in a later post. 

1/6 - 1/12 Goals

This week I'll be getting back into the swing of things as the first full work week of the new year.  I'm going to go easy on myself.

Family / Wife / Friends

• Purchase birthday cards for everyone. Sign and prep for sending.
• Send January birthday cards

Feed my Soul

• Sew another project bag
• Fill that project bag with a kit for Paul's Peradiddle hat which includes needles that I might need to buy
• General spinning and knitting

Homesteading / Sunday Yumday

• Sunday Yumday - pressure can chicken

Sunday Yumday

Today was very productive and I'm feeling real proud of myself. I was able to put together 8 meals, 1 of which we had for dinner.I made 3 of this Baked Teriyaki Chicken.  I also made 3 of this Salisbury Steak recipe. And I made 2 meatloaves which is from my own recipe.

I did not however get to the farmers market and I know I'll be regretting that this week but the first part of the day was spent sleeping in which never happens for me anymore. But Scooter Bug was with the grandparents and hubby took Pea Pod to the coffee shop with him so mommy enjoyed some extra zzz's.

7 Day Goals

12/30 - 1/5 Goals

Family / Wife / Friends

• Discuss my 2014 theme with Hubby and request his support
• Enjoy New Years with Family - focusing only on them.
• Purchase birthday cards for everyone.  Sign and prep for sending.
• Send January birthday cards

Feed my Soul

• Ply Paul's hat yarn
• Attend first Saturday spinning group

Homesteading / Sunday Yumday

• Grate and dehydrate veggies for meal prep
• Prep a freezer meal - to be determined

Dehydrating for meal prep

I found this great recipe from Weelicious.  She is amazing and when my mom bought me her Lunches book for Christmas and it completely opened my eyes to how I can be feeding my family.  I know it's geared more towards kids but I felt so much of the info was relevant to the whole family. 

As you can imagine I got all excited about this recipe for Crock Pot Vegetable Ziti and was going to make it for dinner tonight which for me means putting everything in the pot the night before and storing it in the fridge.  But, by the time I got to the prep part, my daughter was in bed and there was no way I was going to rev up the food processor, so no ziti tonight. 

My solution for this problem is to take some Sunday Yumday time and grate bunches of carrots, zucchini, and squash and dehydrate them.  I will also dehydrate some chopped onions and bell peppers.  I could either store everything in mason jars separately or make little prepackaged dealies with all the ingredients together.  I'll try both and see which one I like the best.  I have in the past dehydrated veggies to smuggle into my families food so this recipe will be a nice addition to my veggie smuggling adventures.  Not to say that I want to smuggle all their veggies, I want them to grow up knowing what they are eating, but the occasional smuggling isn't a bad thing. 

So, what am I taking away from last night's fail?  I'm going to gather some recipes that call for grated veggies, throw the veggies in the food processor and then dehydrate them for future use. 

almost time...

It's coming up on the New Year and the pressure is on.  This is where things would fail for me.  It's like that guy that spins all the plates, I'm that guy but you know a girl.  But unlike that guy, I won't do very good with keeping them going.  I have all these great plans and great ideas that I've complied and decide to put into action and then crash, all the plates hit the ground.  I'm sure that it's all in the planning and then following through with the plan.