Our weekly meal plan! 15th - 21st March. #MealPlanningMonday

Last weeks meal plan went well. We ate everything but did swap a couple of meals around and instead of the frozen pizza we made our own.

Yesterday with it being Mother's day I was spoilt rotten. I got breakfast in bed, some pastries and a vanilla latte. I have been looking for the Vanilla Latte coffee pods in the supermarkets for ages and they're always out of stock but Becky saw them in a shop local to us and got them. What a star! 

When we were doing the home learning we were eating at about half six or seven but now that isn't working, by that time Ellie is getting hangry so we're back to eating at about 5pm which seems to be working well at the moment.

On the menu this week we have:

Monday - BBQ chicken and potato wedges.

Tuesday - Beef encroute's, roast potatoes and veg.

Wednesday - Soup and cheese toasties.

Thursday - Bacon & mushroom pasta.

Friday - Scampi, chips and peas.

Saturday - Chicken fried rice, spring rolls and prawn crackers.

Sunday - Toad in the hole, mash & veg.

What are you eating this week?

A cake for Mother's Day! #MySundayPhoto

Aren't I lucky, my girls made me a cake for Mother's Day, a unicorn one apparently. It's pink on the inside and filled with chocolate fudge buttercream. Yum! Yum! I suppose I will have to share.

I hope all of you mother's out there have a fantastic day and sending love and hugs to those who can't spend the day with their mums.

Week 10 of #Project365. 6th - 12th March. A photo every day for a year!

This was the week where we got a little bit of normal back in our lives with Ellie returning to school. It has gone really well. She's had a couple more Covid tests, both negative of course and she has really enjoyed seeing her friends.

I have had a good week. I took Monday for myself and did very little apart from watch TV and do some blogging. It was nice to have some time to do what I wanted to do instead of helping with the home learning. The rest of the week I have been catching up on all of those jobs I put off while I was helping with the home learning. lol

Now for a photo every day!

65/365 - 6th March

We baked some bread on Saturday and this was the dough in the mixer. It was from a baking box that I was gifted and it tasted so good! The bread and the rolls we made didn't last past the weekend.

66/365 - 7th March

I bought a ton of new masks in preparation for the return to school. I knew Ellie would end up losing some and she of course has. I don't know how considering she has to wear one all day at school. I suspect they are in the bottom of her school bag but I am afraid to look.

67/365 - 8th March

I was sent some of the LOVE CORN snacks to review. They are rather delicious and I have been told by my family that I have to buy more. There will be a full review next week.

68/365 - 9th March

We got a new back door fitted. The old one was a stable style door and I loved it but it was dropping to bits, leaking and was letting all the cold in. Now we have a boring PVC door but it is keeping the warm in and rain out.

69/365 - 10th March

One of my jobs that haven't had time to do before this week, cleaning the junk drawer in the kitchen out. There was a lot of random junk in there and it's looking much tidier now.

70/365 - 11th March

I have been rewatching Desperate Housewives for a few weeks and I am loving it. There is so much that I have forgotten about.

71/365 - 12th March

I got myself some new Harry Potter pj's. They were from Studio. I have worked out that I could wear a different set of HP pj's for 6 nights of the week now I have that many sets. hehehe

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

This week my Word of the Week is: Return! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

This week we have returned to some sort of normal. Ellie went back to school on Monday and so far it's gone well, in fact it has went better than I could have ever imagined.

The kids returning to school this time around feels different. When they went back in September it felt like we just had to hope for the best when the kids were told to social distance and that was about it. Now the school is doing everything they can to keep the kids safe with testing, wearing masks and the teachers moving around the school to different classrooms instead of the kids. 

I was worried about Ellie returning to school as she was moved up a set in January away from all of her best friends but she is loving it despite not really knowing anyone in her new class. She still gets to see her friends from the other class with all they breaks they are getting. I spent all day fretting about her but if I had just looked at her best friends Instagram account I would have seen she was having a great time, messing about in the playground with her friends.

At home Ellie was struggling with some of the school work she was doing, French and maths but being in school with the teacher there to help has been fantastic for her. She is feeling more confident about the work. She is dreading today though, she will have to get up in assembly to collect her prize for the Design & Technology project. I knew it was good but didn't think she'd come in the top 10 in the year, the outstanding group. I am so proud of her.

Becky has got a return date for college, finally! She is itching to get back now. She will only be in for one day at the moment with 2 days home learning but I am looking forward to that one day a week when I can be home alone.

Another bit of normal which has returned is having workmen here. Out back door hasn't been great over the last year. It was draughty and leaked a little and it has been on the landlords list of things to do but never got around to it. On Tuesday someone came to replace out back door and the new one is fantastic. The walls around the door still need plastering but already we can feel the difference. It's so much warmer in the kitchen and even with the wind we had yesterday there was hardly any draughts which seemed crazy considering there is gaps which need filling.

I know we are way off returning to the life we had before Coronavirus but this week has felt like a step in the right direction and I've just heard on the news that next month will see the start of the over 40's being vaccinated. That is me! Hooray!

What have you been up to this week?