Helping Mommy with laundry

What? You don't think she was helping me with the laundry? Oh, but she was! She's never been in a laundry basket before so she thought it was pretty cool, which allowed me to put away four loads of laundry without her fussing for attention.

Simple pleasures

Clara was a little fussy the other night, but then she got her hands on this sheet of newspaper that had come in the mail and she entertained herself with that for at least a half hour! It was pretty much destroyed when we finally took it away from her. She had managed to rip it into four or five pieces and totally crumple all of them. Who knew a piece of newspaper could be so fun?!

We love her!

Wow! Celebrating Father's Day wears a girl out!

Menu Plan Monday

Wow, we've really been packing our weekends full lately! Friday night was a Hawaiian-themed birthday party for my niece. My dad made a tiki bar and Jeremy got to be the bartender. We ate kabobs and fruit salad and sipped fancy non-alcoholic drinks with umbrellas in them. It was great! Saturday we bought an inflatable wading pool and put Clara in it. At first she was not a fan, but she quickly warmed to the idea and had a great time playing in there! Yesterday the three of us went out for brunch to celebrate Father's Day. It was a great, full weekend and now we probably need a few days to recover and feel rested again!

Here's our menu plan for this week...

Monday

Baked fish, zucchini and yellow squash, mashed potatoes

Tuesday

Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread

Wednesday

Hamburgers, pasta salad, grapes, carrot sticks

Thursday

Mexican tortilla skillet, applesauce

Friday

BLT sandwiches, honeydew, tator tots

Saturday

Empanadas, chips and salsa

Sunday

African stew w/rice

Weekly shopping, part two

Clara and I headed to Rainbow this morning for Double Coupon Day and got all this for $27.94 and our receipt says we saved $28.89! The greatest deal was the feminine products...four packages for a total of $3.50!

So our total spent this week was $60.81 which means I'll need to reduce our budget next week by about $15. I hope there aren't a bunch of awesome sales next week that I'll miss out on!