Big Family Food and Fun: February 15-21, 2026

Here’s our Big Family Food and Fun: February 15-21, 2026 put up!

Last week, I ended up getting sick earlier than I might end our weekly put up. And I couldn’t get off the bed once more till Monday morning. Matt was superb to tackle a lot with out me.

Saturday, February 14

Before I began to really feel sick, I made a double batch of Butterscotch Bars for Justus’ birthday lunch the next day.

Matt stayed house with kiddos who had been sick whereas I took Keith, Acacia, and Josie to the library. Kelsey and Hopelyn met us there. I used to be completely wonderful till it was time to load as much as head house. Then all of a sudden I felt achy and sooooo drained. It was to be anticipated. I’d been coughed on by a number of sick youngsters all week. I took my temp after I obtained house (102) and went to mattress.

Big Family Food and Fun: February 15-21, 2026

Sunday, Matt and our grownup youngsters obtained the seven younger ones off to church. I watched on-line and felt very grateful to have that possibility. I tried to get off the bed on Monday however solely made it till round 7:00am after I had to return and lay down. Thankfully, Emma got here that morning to assist Matt survive. The climate was lovely so the youngsters (who had been all house from college) performed outdoors a very good a part of the day.

Matt warmed up leftovers for lunch and we took benefit of Valentino’s present playing cards I’d picked up discounted at Costco just a few weeks in the past to order pizza for dinner.

On Tuesday, I tried once more to rise up – and this time I made it! The youngsters had been house once more that day, and by some means this man confirmed up in our entryway.

And then this princess appeared in the lounge.

Praise God that the climate was superb all throughout today of illness and breaks from college. The youngsters had been outdoors once more most of Tuesday, and we had an journey with a run away canine. We referred to as the quantity on his collar and some minutes later, we had an opportunity to satisfy one in every of our neighbors that we hadn’t met but! The youngsters had been all so enthusiastic about fixing this “crisis.”

We continued to complete off some leftovers at lunch time. Josie loved the final of Malachi’s Cream Cheese Salsa Dip. I despatched him this image to offer him a style of house. He was in California spending the week visiting Matt’s facet of the household. What a present that he obtained to do that!

That afternoon, we put Auggie (and Mommy) down for a nap whereas Matt bravely took all six of the opposite youngsters to a park to play. Matt reported {that a} ton of children had been out that day. So many people took benefit of this pretty climate and the times off of faculty to play!

For dinner, I’d grabbed a bunch of Chicken Legs from the freezer to thaw after which did my notorious “dump sauce on chicken” trick. For being that ridiculously straightforward, this meal certain is scrumptious. Or perhaps I simply lastly had an urge for food once more? According to all the youngsters who had been operating and enjoying within the recent air and sunshine for days, their appetites had been additional giant too. We ate numerous hen legs, oranges, and broccoli that evening.

Those who ate properly (six out of seven youngsters) had been rewarded with Homemade Chocolate Milk! We had some milk that had reached its expiration date, so I didn’t have a alternative. I needed to make Chocolate Milk so we might rapidly end it off.

Meanwhile, we had about 8 bananas sitting on the counter that had turned black whereas I’d been sick in mattress. So I turned them into three loaves of Banana Bread that night. It was an ideal bedtime snack (and breakfast the subsequent morning).

The climate was beautiful on Wednesday so we performed outdoors as a lot as we might. Arrow was hanging out with us that morning!

I had baked a pan of Stick of Butter Rice that morning, then turned it into Tator Tot Casserole for dinner that evening.

On Thursday morning, I made a pan of Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Bars for breakfast.

Throughout the morning, I baked a number of pans of bacon so I might end off the field to filter out house in our fridge. The youngsters munched on bacon for his or her morning snack, and I obtained forward for upcoming bacon-based meals.

Hopelyn frolicked with us Thursday.

When the grandbabies are right here, there isn’t a scarcity of caretakers. I’m usually having to inform our little women, “Give them some space!”

Dinner that evening was a FEAST. I’d taken all of the meat off the bones of our leftover BBQ Chicken Legs from Tuesday evening. There was Bacon. There was White Queso. We had BBQ Chicken Bacon Ranch Nachos for dinner and it was scrumptious. All of us had been house that evening as a result of snow had hit and was coming in quick, so we had been hunkering down for the evening.

Anna’s ABA conduct tech has been educating her to play Chess – are you able to imagine it? She is by some means loving this and figuring it out! As a consequence, she arrange this recreation all by herself, after which began making an attempt to show me the right way to play. It was very candy.

Friday was a Snow Day! This referred to as for a breakfast of Chocolate Chip Pancakes and Sausage.

We barely made it by means of breakfast earlier than very keen youngsters dug out all of the boots and snowsuits and headed outdoors. As anticipated, this was a chilly expertise and didn’t final so long as they’d initially meant.

Brayden had requested Warm Vanilla Soother, which actually hit the spot together with the sausage hyperlinks that hadn’t been completed up throughout breakfast.

Even Keith’s sloth obtained to get pleasure from this particular snack.

We pulled out a craft mission that afternoon. Those little beads are extra difficult than one would hope.

However, Anna locked in and didn’t cease till her snowman was accomplished. This was a really massive deal!

After that, Acacia and Kiya helped me put collectively an enormous Egg Hashbrown Casserole for Sunday’s Lunch.

For dinner that evening, we had Sausage Gravy, Mashed Potatoes within the Crock Pot, and Peas.

On Saturday morning, I baked a double batch of Breakfast Cookie Bars and a pan of Nutella Oat Bars.

We made plans to have Justus’ birthday lunch redo since I’d been sick and unable to host Sunday lunch earlier this week. Elias and Malorie had frozen this Italian Cream Cheese Chicken sauce that I’d prepped forward, so we thawed half of it for Saturday’s lunch.

This is so far as I obtained on this put up earlier than all the youngsters came to visit for birthday lunch. I’ll share extra about our time collectively in subsequent week’s put up!