Good (early!) morning.  I hope you are adjusting to the time change. And I hope my kids sleep in a little. It looks like the weather is finally warming up this week! Forty degrees sounds like a heat wave. We’ll definitely be spending some time outside!

We ended up having a lot of down time last week. It was really nice and just what we needed. But now we’ve got a busy week ahead. We start Monday off bright and early with my daughter’s dentist appointment to get her palate expander and have the dentist look at my little one’s tongue tie.  We also have all of our usual activities plus my mom’s group, my little one’s six month check up and possibly a visit to the chiro for my two youngest.

I am still struggling daily to get my little one to nurse well due to her tightened tongue tie.  I’m doing exercises throughout the day to get us through. But we have to get it taken care of as soon as possible. She had a pretty good day yesterday finally, but then wouldn’t eat much in the evening or in the night. I hope today is another good day.

Part way through last week I cut coconut out of my diet. It’s still TBD if it’s bothering my little one since it can be pretty gassy. Hopefully once we get her nursing well again I can reintroduce it.

I have plenty of kitchen projects to tackle this week.  I have to make several things for our mom’s group on Friday. I might make yogurt today since our milk went sour quickly this week (the farm’s refrigeration system wasn’t working when we picked up our milk). Then all of the usual projects to just keep us fed. And this week Mommy gets to pick Saturday breakfast since it’s my birthday! I think I’m making scones.

Last week I posted some tasty recipes for soaked sweet bread and soaked granola bars.  I have more soaked recipes coming this week that you don’t want to miss.  I might even try to squeeze in a special recipe to celebrate my birthday. Be on the lookout.

For meals this week I was trying to find ways to stretch our meat a bit. So you’ll see lots of beef on the menu this week after I make a roast. I’m not sure yet what is on the menu for Saturday. I think the plan is for my husband and the kids to make dinner.  So I have to check with them what’s on their menu. Here is what we’re eating. What’s on your menu?

Sunday
B – yogurt, granola, banana
L – beef stroganoff over rice, beans, applesauce
D – sourdough pizza with sausage and olives, salad, smoothies
*make pizza dough, make sd bread, make fruit snacks, make yogurt?, make pudding?, soak oats for granola bars, make ranch dressing, boil eggs

Monday
B – hard boiled egg toast
D – cp roast beef, roasted sweet potatoes, broccoli
*dry oats, make granola bars, soak quinoa for milk

Tuesday
B – granola bars, yogurt
D (prep ahead) – cp meatloaf, baked potatoes, carrots
*soak flour for bread, make quinoa milk, soak/sprout beans

Wednesday
B – english muffin w/ pb, fruit
D (prep ahead) – beef, bean and vegetable soup, bread, salad
*make gf bread, soak flour for breakfast cookies, feed sd starter, soak quinoa

Thursday
B – yogurt, granola, fruit
D – beef, broccoli and quinoa stir fry skillet
*make breakfast cookies, make coffee cake, soak flour for baked oatmeal, start sd english muffins, cook quinoa for dinner, soak flour for scones

Friday
B – breakfast cookies, fruit
D – sourdough english muffins, fried eggs, egg casserole, scones, roasted brussels sprouts and cauliflower, fruit salad
*make baked oatmeal, make sd english muffins, make scones, soak flour for blueberry buckle

Saturday
B (mom’s choice) – soaked carob zucchini scones, soaked blueberry buckle, smoothies
D (birthday dinner made by the kids) – roasted chicken, baked squash, seasoned rice
*make blueberry buckle, soak flour for gf bread