Valentine’s Day – Countdown Calendar Kick-off by Daveswife

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Feb 012012
 

Be Mine — Valentine! Countdown to V-Day!

Tomorrow is February 1st . . . and the beginning of the Ferrell Boys’ Countdown to Valentine’s Day! And the best part about the Countdown to Valentine’s Day . . . the Ferrell boys have no clue that it’s going to happen!
 
Alex and last year’s V-Day
 
After the boys go to bed tonight, Dave and I are going to decorate the breakfast area of the kitchen with Valentine’s decor and hang the Countdown Calendar up somewhere (as yet undetermined). 
 
Zach and his class’ V-Day party
 
Tomorrow morning we are going to surprise the boys with a Valentine-themed breakfast of heart-shaped pancakes with syrup and sprinkles, heart-shaped butter pats, heart-shaped bacon (maybe) and pink Valentine milk. 
 
 
Every day from now until Valentine’s Day, I have an activity or surprise for all 3 boys planned.  Most of the activities are things we can do together. . . like play a game together or watch a movie together.  Some activities are Valentine themed activities like making valentine cookies or homemade valentines for their classmates.
 
Alex making Valentine cookies last year at church.
 
I’ve never done anything like this before for Valentine’s Day although we always give the boys a Valentine happy. 
 
Shane sorting through his V-day goodies from last year.
 
I hope this will be something fun for us to do as a family.  We all enjoyed – as a family – the Christmas activities of reading the Christmas books and all the mischief with Jeff the elf.
 
I’ll be posting some pictures as we countdown to the big day!  I would go ahead and post my plans for each day, but I’m not committing to any activity on any particular day yet.  I’ll probably decide the night before what activity we will be doing and put it in the calendar then.  ( The boys would cheat and look ahead anyway)  I’m keeping it flexible depending on our schedule.  I’ve got some easy activities planned for when we seem to be very busy and then some time-consuming activities for weekends when we have more time.I got my idea for doing the Countdown Calendar . . .
 
(picture from gallamorewest.com)
 
from this great BLOG:  GallamoreWest.  She has a lot of great ideas for Valentine’s Day.
So . . . Be Mine -  Valentine!  or at least . . .               Mine and the Ferrell Boys!
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Menu for the Week of January 30th by Daveswife

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Feb 012012
 
 

Week of Jan. 30th – Menu Plan

 
It’s time again to post my menu plan for this week:
 
Monday:
 
Chicken Enchiladas
This is an actual picture of Monday night’s supper :)

Tuesday:

Crockpot Spaghetti sauce (made with lean ground beef instead of ground turkey)
Spaghetti noodles
Salad
Garlic bread

Wednesday:

Church Supper:

     I’m thinking Baked Ziti (using the Crockpot Spaghetti sauce)
     and Brownies  (Weight Watcher’s recipe using diet coke)

Thursday:

Crockpot Potato Soup
Toppings:  bacon & cheese

Friday:

Pizza — Homemade using Basic Pizza Dough recipe

Weekend Menu  –  still pending :)

Can you tell I’m in a cooking mood this week?!?  BTW:  I lost another 1.4 pounds last week!  Woo Hoo!  I was somewhat surprised by this since I went on an eating binge the past three days and did not drink any water over the weekend!  Just Diet Coke!  This week I’m getting back to the basics . . .
                                     I’m a little worried about the potato soup . . .

Part of the problem with dieting is how long it takes to get anywhere with it.  You know what I mean. . . 1 pound this week . . . 1 pound last week . . . pokey pokey pokey. 

So to help me get out of the binge-eating-binge I was going through . . . I decided to raid my closet.

I should take a picture of my closet.  :)       It’s bad messy!     It’s a huge walk-in closet with two rows for hanging clothes on the left side (for me ) and two rows for hanging clothes on the right side (for Dave) and one tall row across the back (for my dresses etc).  It’s pretty full in there.  So when we brought the final load of clothes from the old house . . . over a year ago . . . I had to pile them in a giant pile in the middle of the closet . . . all the racks of rows were full already . . .  and that’s where they have stayed!  I’m so being reeeaaal  honest here folks! 

Anyway . . . I started digging through that pile of clothes.  They are neatly piled together . . . still on hangers . . . stacked on top of each other . . . I found some clothes I haven’t seen in a while . . . I wore a black dress to church Sunday that I haven’t worn in a while . . . like since before I had Shane . . .

Today I wore a striped turtle neck sweater with a black skirt . . . again something I haven’t worn in a while . . .

Now I will say that I haven’t been able to wear these clothes comfortably in public until now so this was just the type of boost I needed to keep me on the WW program.  The funny thing is what Dave said to me this afternoon . . .

He looked at me with a curious smile and said . . . “Where have you been getting all these new clothes?”  Ha!  Like I’ve been out spending his money!  Like when would I have done any shopping and with what?!?  He’s so funny! 
Hope you have a great week! 

  Love ya!  from the Ferrell boys and me!

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