Weekly Meal Plan

Can you believe that ANOTHER Christmas has come and gone?! I feel like it was just Thanksgiving (which is kinda true since it fell so late this year!). Time to start up with the weekly meal plans again (by the way, I'm gonna ditch the number because it doesn't really matter that this is my 80-something meal plan.)

SUNDAY was...
Easy Shepherd's Pie

MONDAY
Chicken Boursin Bundles

TUESDAY
NYE - we still haven't narrowed it down... so... um.... I dunno

WEDNESDAY
Probably take-out, I know I'm not going to be up for going to the store and/or cooking!

THURSDAY
Some kind of soup :)

FRIDAY
Clemson's Bowl Game... I'm thinking we may need to meet up with the alumni club at a bar

SATURDAY
Pizza Night

Recap

Christmas Eve dinner! 

Pizza Night

Sausage Lentil Soup (yum!!!!!)

Decorating the Tree

I know I've written on Christmas tree decorating before, but I just love doing it. Granted, it took me a little longer in the season to complete the decorating of our tree... but still... we are done (finally!)

I love decorating primarily because of the ornaments; they bring back memories of people, places, events, and more and countless times during the decorating process a smile is brought to my face simply from an ornament.

Our first Christmas | First Christmas Church

        Our year with Disney passes | My grandma's handpainted ornaments

Our trip to the Keys | Clemson Tigers, of course!

Baby's 1st Christmas | Our Canada Babymoon     

In our new house I am finally able to put our tree in front of a front facing window so that it can be seen from the outdoors (like ours was growing up!). I do have a bit of advice for other "front facing window tree putter-uppers"... if your tree is seen from the road, actually decorate the back of your tree.
Case in point, the girls and I were on a walk the other day to see the lights and we came across one such example: The lights on the tree were on, they just didn't go all the way around the tree so that I could see them. Such a waste of a "front facing window" tree location.

Weekly Meal Plan #81

SUNDAY was...
Italian Sausage and Mushroom Pizza

MONDAY
Sausage and Lentil Soup

TUESDAY
Panko Crusted Tilapia

WEDNESDAY
Supporting our School with Chili's Takeout

THURSDAY
Pork Tenderloin

FRIDAY
Pizza Night

RECAP

Weekly Meal Plan #80

Between Thanksgiving week and planning for my 7th Annual Christmas Cocktail party, I haven't cooked much (well, I did for the party, just not for the family, oops). Time to get back in the swing of things.

SUNDAY was...
Christmas cookie exchange party at my Mother-in-laws

MONDAY
Quick Potato Soup; Using the leftover ham from the party... moms recipe

TUESDAY
Salmon (sale) - Probably the Mustard Encrusted Salmon

WEDNESDAY
Chicken Taco Night

THURSDAY
Junior League Meeting for mama - haven't figured out the girls (and hubby's) plan

FRIDAY
Pizza Night

 baked Chicken, sweet potato, and zucchini cakes

 Chicken a la king

 Mushroom chicken bake

 Andoulli Sausage, red beans, and rice

 THANKSGIVING!

 Apple Cheesecake

Quesadilla and tomato soup

You might be a Christmas fan if...

As I was taking out my Christmas decorations the other day (in all 12 bins, plus some non-binned stuff) I re-realized what I've known for ever. I'm a HUGE Christmas fan.

First of all, I have like 12 bins of Christmas decorations, clothes, etc, not counting stuff that doesn't fit into bins and some wreaths. I LOVE the Christmas holiday.

There are many ways that show how much of a Christmas fan I am, but one of the first things that stuck out was when I was in my kitchen switching out some of my everyday stuff for Christmas stuff.

So to finish my post title Jeff Foxworthy style...

You might be a Christmas fan if... You have more Christmas mugs than everyday mugs.

17 Christmas mugs > 9 non-Christmas mugs