This Week With Dee – where I share our menu, my planned home tasks for the week, what I’m reading, self care plans and more. I hope it will give you some ideas for planning your own week or at least a glimpse of one homemaker’s life.
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THIS WEEK WITH DEE
I apologize for the tardiness of this post but better late than never, right?
Last week seemed to be the week for meetings. Fortunately everything is on Zoom so at least I don’t have to add in travel time. I had four meetings last week but only three this week, so that’s a little better.
Our weather is getting a bit cooler with highs in the upper 80s/low 90s which is still pretty warm. But our nights are in the 60s which is nice.
Let’s listen to some jazz and see what’s going on around here this week.
Menu:
Monday…
- Cheesy Cabbage Casserole (This was SO good! I remembered to take a picture so I can share the recipe later this week.)
- salad
- pears
Tuesday…
- enchiladas (I made the sauce from this recipe. Very good!)
- salad
Wednesday…
- Busy Day Swiss Steak
- rice
- green beans
- peaches
Thursday…
- East End Eats (live music event, food trucks)
Friday…
- tilapia (haven’t decided how I’ll cook them)
- baked potatoes
- roasted veggies
Saturday…
- corned beef and veggie soup (from leftovers I put in the freezer)
- cornbread
Sunday…
- takeout after Music in the Park
IN MY HOME:
REVIEW OF LAST WEEK
As I said above, I spent quite a bit of time in meetings. Otherwise I kept up with the usual housework. I also cleaned out and reorganized a section of my pantry.
I have two large, pull-out drawers in the bottom. One of them is where I store various pastas, noodles, rice, stuffing mix, and similar items. I pulled it all out, cleaned the drawer, tossed some things and reorganized.
I already had two large plastic bins but needed a third. One of these days I’ll get one but in the meantime I cut the flaps off a shallow cardboard box and used that to hold the various boxes of spaghetti, lasagna and other pastas. Not pretty but it works. I’d love to have one of those gorgeous pantries you see on Pinterest. Maybe someday…
THIS WEEK
I’m finishing this post late on Tuesday evening so I can tell you what I’ve done already. I picked up an order from Azure Standard Monday. It included 5 pound bags of frozen organic corn and green beans which necessitated a bit of reorganizing in the freezer. I need to give it a major overhaul and defrosting but that’s not on the list this week.
Note: If you are interested in purchasing from Azure Standard, I’ll put the link and my share code at the end of this post. I’ve been buying natural and organic foods from this company for many, many years. I highly recommend them.
I also washed the sheets and replaced them on the bed. And of course I ironed the pillowcases. 😉
Today I had two Zoom calls which took a big chunk of the day. I did a load of laundry, cleaned the guest bathroom and made yummy enchiladas with homemade sauce for dinner.
I have a rather lengthy Zoom meeting tomorrow. On Thursday I have a Zoom call and then we have a live music event that we host outdoors at the local university. I don’t think I have anything Friday. I hope to tackle a project or two on Saturday. And we have another live music event Sunday evening.
WORK
We are still working on the fundraiser for our nonprofit and I have a few tasks to do for that. I also want to do at least one more blog post this week.
READING
I started reading West With Giraffes this past week and hope to finish this weekend. I’m enjoying it so far.
SELF CARE
I think I have finally accepted the fact that the past year and a half have been stressful and I should cut myself some slack. Maybe it’s truly okay to not be as productive as I’d like to be when we are in the midst of a pandemic.
HEALTH & FITNESS
More sleep; more exercise. Wash, rinse, repeat.
FUN ACTIVITIES
We have two live music events this week. East End Eats is Thursday and Music in the Park is Sunday.
HABIT OF THE WEEK
Chris and I were talking today about how we have both slacked on our daily meditation time. I’m going to get back to that. I promise!
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What’s on your plan for the week ahead? Home tasks? Menu? Fun?
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California Natural Calico Cheese
I also buy bulk quantities of various beans, rice, oatmeal, flour, sugar, etc. It’s a great way to stock a pantry with natural and organic foods.
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Sounds like a productive week. Hope all the meetingswent well, and the ones for this week go well too. And good luck with the self care and health related plans.
Last week I managed to make some excellent progress on getting things unpacked that we hadn’t yet, as well as organizing a load more of the craft stuff. I also finished a craft project, and got caught up on a lot of online things like eMails and such. I’m down to just having a few items to deal with in the craft room, and then just needing to get books and DVDs in their proper order on their shelves.
This week I have roleplaying Monday and Wednesday, and book club (which I’m facilitating again) Friday. Thursday we have a guy coming to do some repairs we mentioned to them when they came for the inspection. And between those things I’m hoping to finish up the organization in the craft room, catch up a little on reading, make some progress on another craft project (which I can do while reading) and make a few phonecalls for things I need to organize (like getting Lilie’s pills sent out to us for another month).
As for my menu…
Monday: baked potato with cheese and beans.
Tuesday: vegan poutine.
Wednesday: chilli and potato wedges.
Thursday: leftovers from Wednesday.
Friday: not 100% certain, but some kind of meal involving rice and veggies.
Haven’t decided about Saturday and Sunday yet.
It always feels so good to make progress on a project. Good job with the organizing, crafting and email!
Thanks. 🙂
I love the music! It’s very relaxing. Thanks for sharing it. I saved your busy Day Swiss Steak recipe as a .pdf and emailed it to myself. Dee – do you have a Pinterest site? I’m interested in your recipe for the Meatball Stroganoff you made a few weeks ago. Anyway, enjoy the day. ~kp
Hi Karen. I hope you like the Swiss Steak recipe. I don’t have the meatball stroganoff written as a blog post. I made it up as I went. I do think I shared the idea with a friend on Facebook. I’ll see if I can find it and let you know. I do have Pinterest. http://pinterest.com/deannapiercy/
Have a lovely day!
I found what I had written about the meatball stroganoff:
Melt a couple of tablespoons butter and cook very thinly sliced onion until softened. Add meatballs and enough water or broth to barely cover. I used water and added powdered beef broth and then seasoned with garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper and Creole seasoning. Simmer until meatballs are done. Thicken with a cornstarch slurry, remove from heat and stir in about 3/4 cup sour cream. Adjust seasonings and serve over noodles or rice.