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Menu Plan Monday – Jan 4-10

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Happy New Year to all of you from ORG Junkie! Thanks for visiting. I love MPM and try to participate most weeks of the year. I’m going to be focusing on ways to make your home run a little more simple this year, as we are trying to do the same here in our home. I’m also planning a DIY wedding and will be trying out a lot of things before the end of March and asking for a lot of opinions, so stick around and help a girl out!

This week the kids are going back to school on Tuesday from their Christmas holidays. Tuesday is also my daughter Kayla’s 8th birthday. She has asked for cupcakes at school on Tuesday, church on Wednesday and then again at our Girl Scout meeting on the following Wednesday. So I’ll be making about 6 dozen in the next week which is a good 1st trial for the wedding. Do you have a favorite recipe for cupcakes? Please share with me.

On to what you are here for:

Monday: Mexican is the theme. I’ll do a taco bake and a few other things like nachos and cheese.

Tuesday: Kayla’s choice: French Fries, Chocolate Cake (cupcakes), Pizza and Corn Dogs

Wednesday: More cupcakes for church potluck

Thursday: Fried Chicken, potato salad and green lima beans

Friday: Vegetable Beef Soup

Saturday: Grilled Chicken

Sunday: Barbecue Chicken Breasts, pasta salad and Green Bean Bundles

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Inside a Black Apple – Brownies

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I must say that these are the best brownies I’ve ever tasted in my life. I’ve been sharing the recipe a lot lately, and making them more than usual over the holidays. They are super easy and I always have everything at my fingertips. I hope you enjoy them like my family and friends have lately.

Recipe: My Favorite Brownies

Summary: soft, chewey and delctible brownies that are super easy to make.

Ingredients

  • 1 stick butter (8 tbsp)
  • 1/2 c Brown Sugar
  • 1 c White Sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3/4 c flour
  • 1/2 c cocoa
  • Pinch salt
  • Tbsp Vanilla
1. Preheat Oven to 390
2. Melt butter in pot over stove
3. Remove butter from heat, let cool about a minute, then add sugars (just use the pot as your bowl…it saves you more dishes).Mix well.
4. Add eggs, flour, cocoa, salt, and generous tablespoon-splash of vanilla, and mix well.
5. Line baking dish (I use a glass one) with parchment, pour in batter, and pop in oven.
6. Bake 20-25 minutes, I test with a knife in the center and remove when only a few little crumbs cling to the knife.
7. Cool one hour or overnight.

*notes* I cook these for 25-30 minutes in a glass pan at 400 degrees, and they  never get cool before the pan is empty!

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So I’ve been playing around with a new toy…

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From Big Huge Labs here’s a little something fun.

Vintage Photobooth strip

1. Our First Pic, 2. hotel pics, 3. hotel pics 031, 4. Multimedia message

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January Habit – Sink Reflections

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After much consideration, and a lot of routines that need to be renewed, I decided to start back with my Flylady routines. January 1st seemed as good of a date as any to start back. The monthly habit is to make sure your sink shines before you go to bed. Now this may seem easy to some and hard to others. In my house of 7, it can be hard to have everything out of the sink and it clean and shiny when I come back to it in the morning.

I know there is no use in trying to get everyone in my house on board starting tomorrow, but as they see what I’m doing I hope that they catch on with this habit too. So my plan is to get out the bleach tomorrow, fill up the sink with hot water and let it soak. Then wipe it all down with water and then vinegar or windex to make it shine. I’ll do this during the day and before bed I’ll be making sure its shined again by wiping and drying it out and placing a little note that the dirties need to go into the dishpan under the sink.

I will be on a mission to make a few new dishcloths and towels with my cotton yarn also, as I don’t think I have quite enough. Over my sink is a window that needs to be decluttered and cleaned out. I hope to make my whole dish area shine! ;)

Beside my sink is a dish rack, I’d love for this to go under the sink when all of the dishes are put away, so I will also be cleaning out from under my sink this month.

This is why keeping your sink shiny expands to the rest of the home. You can’t just have the sink looking sparkly, it grows out from there like a light. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and the sink is the fire that keeps everything going.

If you are new to Flylady check out her website Flylady.net, pick up her book Sink Reflections and you after a few habits made, your home will fall right into place where you want it to be. You are never behind, just jump in where you are!

*EDIT* I did it! yay! Shining Sink 1Jan10

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