Is it really April and Easter week already?! I am looking for a simple, but tasty dish to bring to our family Easter dinner – does anyone have an idea to share? 
Monday ~ Cabbage rolls
Tuesday ~ Shrimp, herbed rice, and green beans
Wednesday ~ Spaghetti with steamed carrots
Thursday ~ Sloppy joes and sweet potato fries
Friday ~ Pineapple pizza
Saturday ~ Nachos
Sunday ~ Easter (bring a dish to pass)
For other meal ideas, visit The Organizing Junkie!
Sometimes, we need to find inspiration offline and with the ones we love. I got to place of overwhelm and had to let something go – blogging this past week just happened to be it, I guess. I finished one book and made it halfway through another, I listened to podcasts, I played with my kids, I watched a documentary, and was more productive.
Here are some Sunday Inspiration links from me. What have you been inspired by lately?
::The Way of the Peaceful Parent
I woke up this morning to do my blog post, but we didn’t have power. We took the baby goats to the vet anyway, but instead of coming home to clean, eat lunch, and blog we went to visit my mom instead. Not as planned, but still good!
So here’s our weekly meals – better late than never.
Monday ~ Enchiladas with baked asparagus
Tuesday ~ Happy soup and homemade bread
Wednesday ~ Lasagna and salad
Thursday ~ Rosemary chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans
Friday ~ Pizza and steamed carrots
Saturday ~ Coffee roast
Sunday ~ Burgers, BBQ ribs, and veggies on the grill with friends
{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Our new favorite family activity is to the load up the kids in backpacks and go hiking on the homestead. My husband knows a lot of our property because he has walked it quite a few times already, and he hunted in the back part of the property that I don’t see often.
We have a little Maple bush, a Cedar grove which is a great place for shade from the hot sun, a few hills which Val has named Pinku and Peegu, and some swampy areas too.
Two of our dogs followed us along on our hike.
Val even decided at one point of the hike that it was far too hot for her dress.
I am so thankful for the warm days we have been having so the whole family can enjoy time outside together exercising, talking, and thinking in the moments of quiet in the woods.
A few weeks ago, I ordered a bunch of books from the library and they just happened to come in at the same time as my Amazon order. I kept my audio book and started digging into my Amazon pile!
I am currently reading Beyond the Sling by Mayim Bialik, PhD. I have always loved Mayim, and it all started with Blossom of course. I even wore a denim hat with a huge flower on it so I could be like her. Anyway, I will stop embarrassing myself now. I am really loving this book though! It’s an excellent combination of explaining Attachment Parenting, how she parents, and why she chooses to parent that way based on her neuroscience degree. She talks about how our bodies and brains (and of course our children’s) react when we breastfeed, touch, cuddle with, and speak compassionately to them. I am looking forward to reading more of it – hopefully today with some tea.
Love. Love. Love.
The other book I kept from the library, isn’t actually a text book but an audio book. It was recommended to me by many people, and the audio came especially recommended. If you drive often to and from work or a regular commute (mine isn’t regular, but I listen on my long trips to town), I highly recommend the audio of The Help! There’s always the regular book too, but the audio has the amazing voices that brings the story right to life in your car. It is set in the 1960′s and tells the story of two black maids and the racism they face working for white families.
What are you reading? What do you recommend? Leave me a comment and tell me!
Monday ~ Hamburger soup and homemade bread
Tuesday ~ Chicken and sweet potato stew
Wednesday ~ Homemade pizza
Thursday ~ Enchiladas
Friday ~ Nachos
Saturday ~ Cabbage rolls
Sunday ~ Out to eat or leftovers
For more meal ideas, visit The Org Junkie.
Have you ever seen something so inspiring? I walked into the barn just a few days ago to two brand new goat babies. Born into this world completed unassisted, just by pure primal knowledge of the mama. She was cleaning them up, birthing the placenta, and eating an after-labor meal. Such a beautiful gift to our family.
We now have a boy goat named Gregory and a little girl goat named Mecca (Val helped name both of them). They are walking around, tripping over their own legs sometimes, and even bouncing at each other a little bit. Mama is doing well, but in typical goat fashion she is being stubborn for us too. Hopefully in the next days, we’ll all be in a rhythm because as it is with all new babies…. it’s so very inspiring but so exhausting.
Inspirational Links ~
{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
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