Happy Homemaker Monday - 5/11/15

Hello!  Hope all you ladies had a wonderful Mother's Day.  Mine was great.  It was spent with my mother, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, husband and kids.  My husband surprised me with a beautiful necklace and matching earrings and my kids had a ton of homemade gifts for me.  My husband made a delicious dinner for us.

So onto another edition of Happy Homemaker Monday, created by the wonderful Sandra at Diary of A Stay At Home Mom.

The weather in my neck of the woods:
Right now it's 74 degrees, hot and sunny.  It will be between the 70's and 80's all week, with a chance of showers here and there.  I love this weather!

Things that make me happy:
My husband and children.  Even though things get chaotic, the kids get loud and obnoxious and aren't always good listeners I feel so incredibly blessed to have them in my life.

Menu for the week:
Monday - leftover pasta from yesterday's delicious dinner
Tuesday - ham, mashed potatoes, veggies
Wednesday - fish sticks and fries.  Gotta eat quick before my son's 6pm baseball game.
Thursday - sloppy joes
Friday -
Saturday - Chicken barbeque event near my parents house.  Also, my mom's 70th birthday
Sunday - pizza

What's on my TV today:
Right now my daughter is watching The Thundermans.  It's a show on Nickelodeon about a super hero family that has to pretend to be a normal family.

Looking around the house:
I'm in my kitchen now.  Dishes are piled high in the sink waiting to be put into the dishwasher once the clean dishes are put away.

On my to do list:
Dishes
Laundry
Doctor appointment
Mow lawn
Stain wooden boxes for my raised flower beds (thanks hubby for making them for me)
Pull weeds

New recipe I tried or want to try soon:
One thing we never eat in this house is fish.  I grew up eating fish because my parents liked it but I never got into it much.  My husband isn't a fish person.  The other day my son said he wanted to try some fish.  I thought I'd start him off with some simple fish sticks this week.  I liked them as a kid and so did my husband.  If he likes it then I'll try another type of actual fish sometime.  Anyone have a good fish recipe?  What's your favorite fish to eat? Something that  doesn't have that extreme fishy taste if you know what I mean.

In the craft basket:
Still all those beads waiting to be turned into jewelry.  Can't wait to get started.

Looking forward to this week:
Getting my daughter's baby pool out so she can splash around on these hot days.
My son's baseball games this Wednesday evening and Saturday morning
Bowling Thursday evening
My mother's birthday on Saturday.  She turns 70!!!
Chicken barbecue near my parents house on Saturday.  It's a big event at a park every year.  The food is delicious!

No words needed (favorite photo or picture):

(weeds in my back yard)

On my mind:

Trying to sort through all these negative feelings in my mind so I can go back to appreciating all that is good.  It's not so easy to do.  

Devotionals, Scriptures:

"Here I am!  I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me," -- Revelation 3:20

We had a guest speaker at church yesterday who talked about how God gives us the free will to choose what direction we want to take in our lives.  He said he will stand at the door and knock but he won't come in unless we invite him in.  Sometimes we expect that he will just show up and enter but he isn't going to do that unless we invite him to.