Big Family Food and Fun: March 1-7, 2026

Here’s our Big Family Food and Fun: March 1-7, 2026 publish!

We get pleasure from a Sabbath relaxation from Saturday night by Sunday night – so I flip off my pc on Saturday afternoons and miss posting a few of these photos. I’ll compensate for our final Saturday actions earlier than launching into our new week!

February 28

We’d gone to a Husker Women’s Basketball sport Saturday afternoon, and got here dwelling hungry. We warmed up leftovers for dinner plus I sliced some oranges for everybody.

We did some cleansing to prepare for a brand new week. Daddy needed to take aside the vacuum to scrub out all of the lengthy hairs that had wrapped round it. How about that? We have a LOT of lengthy hair in our home now. 🙂

Big Family Food and Fun: March 1-7, 2026

We ate a plate filled with Breakfast Cookie Bars as we obtained prepared for church on Sunday morning. I had been feeling fairly worn out from a number of weeks of illness touring by the home plus all the brand new therapies we’d began. But we didn’t wish to cancel Sunday Lunch as a result of it’s such a satisfying time for us. So we determined to make the most of a pizza deal we discovered on-line. Families who joined us pitched in on the price and we had a brilliant chill, restful Sunday Lunch.

The ladies arrange a small desk with a picnic within the hallway that afternoon. This is each very candy and in addition barely rebellious as a result of they aren’t allowed to eat outdoors the eating room or kitchen. 😉

Matt and I loved Community Group time that afternoon. For dinner, we ate our means by a crock pot filled with Ham and Potato Soup that I’d made that morning. It was so good to have the ability to feed all of us that night with out doing any work! This soup is very easy!

The youngsters arrange a stage in the lounge and rehearsed a play and with some music. Here’s Brayden directing Jesus Loves Me whereas the three littlest youngsters magically cooperated. It was VERY SWEET.

As the youngsters performed, I made a giant batch of Chewy Granola Bars for the upcoming week.

On Monday morning, we completed final week’s Easy Chocolate Protein Mousse leftovers with our Eggs in a Nest breakfast.

Emma got here that morning to assist out, plus we had ABA therapists be part of the crew – all at 8:00. That’s a reasonably loopy time of our day as we get faculty youngsters prepared and out the door and different youngsters prepared for therapies. I all the time really feel a bit frazzled as we transition right here, however everyone seems to be so gracious. Who cares if I’m nonetheless in my pajamas when folks present as much as our home as a result of there hasn’t been a second but to go upstairs to get myself prepared for the day? Oy.

With 4 youngsters headed to high school and the opposite three settled in with remedy and Emma, I (dressed myself, aren’t you proud? and) headed out for the day. My first cease was Aldi, and I obtained plenty of tasty fruits and meats was on sale!

Eight kilos of strawberries? Yep, when they’re that good and that good of a worth!

After that, I spent a beautiful couple of hours at Panera sipping espresso and writing. Then I went to Costco earlier than heading dwelling. My purpose was to get some particular meals for our Spring Break outings subsequent week! Plus I additionally wanted the fundamentals: greens, milk, bananas, broccoli, sausage, and extra fruit. 🙂

Knowing I’d be gone for a number of hours that day, I had thawed two packages of Ham and Cheese Sliders to bake for dinner. I warmed up Tomato Soup to go together with them. And after all, we needed to eat these strawberries I’d purchased! I reduce up 4-pounds of them plus made a double batch of Cheesecake Parfait. Everyone was enthusiastic about this and all of it obtained eaten earlier than bedtime. 🙂

Our Tuesday morning was extraordinarily full with our common ABA therapies beginning at 8, plus attachment remedy we’re doing now for 2 of our youngsters beginning at 9. At the identical time, I had two IEP conferences to go to on the youngsters’ faculty and a 504 assembly to work towards. Malachi helped Matt juggle every little thing at dwelling whereas I took care of all the varsity conferences.

Back at dwelling lastly at 11:15, we obtained the women prepared for the varsity bus at midday. Hopelyn was right here for the day and he or she and Auggie loved taking part in outdoors after the hubbub of the morning calmed down.

I took Brayden and Kiya to our weekly Food Distribution.

We had a fridge filled with meals, so dinner that evening was Leftovers. But I did reduce up one other huge bowl of strawberries, this time for Chocolate Cheesecake Parfaits!

Bright and early on Wednesday morning, Acacia, Josie, and Auggie helped me make Flourless Chocolate Banana Muffins.

Arrow got here to hang around that morning. We discovered puzzles and made farm animal sounds. Auggie saved insisting that the horse was a giraffe, and whereas we may see how he would come to this conclusion, Arrow saved telling him that it was, the truth is, a “hos.” Hearing their conversations is past candy.

We’d introduced dwelling a number of baggage of prepped rooster from Tuesday’s Food Distribution that we wanted to make use of up. So we warmed it for dinner that evening, completed off the Chocolate Cheesecake Parfaits plus had Raspberries and Baked Beans.

Suddenly all the youngsters are very into the sport of Chess. Acacia begged for a sport earlier than mattress and all the youngsters gathered ’spherical.

Hopelyn came to visit on Thursday morning. She spent a number of the day purchasing…

Auggie had a go to from a particular schooling instructor from Early Development Network. He has made a lot progress and it was so nice to have so many optimistic issues to report.

For dinner that evening, I made Spaghetti with Broccoli. It was a easy meal as a result of Matt and I have been attempting to sneak off for our weekly date. Several youngsters had main meltdowns earlier than we left so it was tough to get out the door. Malachi took over with the ultimate combating kiddo and we left, hoping for the very best. (Everyone did pretty nicely whereas we have been gone. Elias reported that actually everybody was fairly calm whereas we have been gone, but as quickly as we walked again into the home, the screaming began up once more. Ugh.)

Either means, we had some wanted down time at Panera whereas we have been gone. Silly because it was, we took Matt’s laptop computer so we may work on our taxes. This isn’t probably the most enjoyable means to make use of our time alone, however this needed to be performed and there hasn’t been one other second to do it. So taxes by the hearth sipping drinks…this was our date. 🙂

Friday morning, I made French Toast for the youngsters to seize and eat for breakfast. (No syrup wanted as a result of I used Cinnamon Bread, making this a seize and eat meals!) I used to be in the midst of making these Smoothies that morning additionally.

During breakfast, I put collectively an enormous Lasagna to freeze for an upcoming youth group occasion.

Acacia had an hour of Physical Therapy and an hour of Speech Therapy that morning. She’s assembly a few of her objectives which could be very thrilling!

Late morning, our pals, Paula and Randy, dropped off an enormous load of pantry gadgets for our Little Free Pantry. Auggie had an excellent time serving to me put every little thing away.

The little ladies didn’t have preschool that afternoon, so that they obtained to go together with us to an meeting on the elementary faculty.

Keith was honored to obtain the Responsible Award AND an award from the Music/PE/Art academics. He was so proud – and so have been we!

After the meeting, we obtained to have popcorn and take photos within the hallway!

I made a quite simple dinner that evening of “Nacho Tots” with taco meat, cheese, salsa, and guac to place over tator tots.

That evening, I made an enormous roaster filled with Smothered Pork Chops for our upcoming Sunday Lunch. I’m in the midst of scripting this recipe to share with all of you quickly!

We taught the youngsters to play Skipbo that evening. I used to play this with our older boys rather a lot so taking part in this introduced again nice recollections!

On Saturday mornings, we let the youngsters watch a few exhibits once they stand up. So this enables me to get a bit little bit of kitchen work performed in preparation for our weekend and upcoming week. This Saturday, I made a double recipe of Flourless Brownie Muffins, a batch of Crustless Cheesecake, and a double recipe of Breakfast Cookie Bars.

We obtained prepared after that and headed to the library for Sensory Storytime. Kelsey and Hopelyn met us there!

After that, we took the youngsters to a free occasion on the International Quilt Museum. Some of the youngsters dealt with this wonderful and a few of them didn’t, which is par for the course. We went dwelling and ate leftovers for lunch, did some cleansing, performed outdoors, and gave haircuts to the boys. And that was our week!