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Comments: With the Monday Meanderings participants growing each week it is almost impossible to get around to visit everyone and comment on their blogs, I will however do my best to make my rounds but I know I cannot comment on all 30 or so blogs that participate each week.  If you are having the same issues,  I would suggest picking 10 or so blogs/posts to "READ" and comment on and the next week pick 10 or so different blogs to visit. I do believe we can learn a great deal from each other by sharing and learning knew ways of running our homes and families. With that said I do not want anyone to think I am ignoring them for that is far from the truth, I wish I could visit each and everyone of you each Monday but with a family and home as my first priorities there just isn’t enough time in the day.  I am so glad to see so many of us using our blogs as a tool to prepare our homes and families for the coming week! Happy Monday to you!!!.

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"Monday Meanderings” is the perfect way to use your blog to keep you accountable to the most important part of your life, your “Home Life”!  Simply pick 5 things each week that will better prepare you to tackle the week ahead!

1. Bible Study/ Devotions ~ This week I will be rereading reading Chapter 7 of Nancy Campbell's Bible Study  "The Power of Motherhood .

I also receive two Devos that I read daily via email that are always such a blessing to read!

http://www.adevotion.org/

http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/my_utmost/utm.cgi

2. "Must Do"~ (Not the To Do list but the “Must Do” list!)

This week I “Must”

• Home Blessing (You can view my HB on the left sidebar)
• Ship out Packages that are ready
• Make and send Orderly Mom notebooks that have been ordered
• Make dental apts
•  (Still doing this) Planning for the Holidays (just jot basic plans on paper and get pages organized into my Orderly Mom Notebook) Yep, I know it sounds soon but I have to plan early with 4 little ones under foot. Lots to plan this year… Christmas Homeschool Open House on my blog, Homeschool group Christmas party at our home, make plan for gifts we will be making, food to be made and this years Family Gatherings at our home for Thanksgiving and Christmas!

A few of you have asked about my Holiday notebook or pages, I will be doing a separate post for Holiday planning soon! J

3. Zone~ Bring down all my Autumn decorations and clean them up along with the places in which they will go.

I will also try to tackle a few of the needed things on this list for “Fall”

“Prepare Your House for Fall”

4. Train Them Up~ We will continue with our daily Bible lesson, character training and daily chores along with 1^st time obedience training.  We need to start doing “Home church” practice at home for the smallest ones again too. I go by myself with the 4 boys and it can be a chore to keep them all content and sitting quietly still for an hour.

5. Menu Planning~ 

Oven Baked Sweet Potato Chips

Instead of Baked Sweet Potatoes my mother found THIS recipe in our Martha Stewart Living Mag. For baked Sweet Potato chips! They were very yummy, another keeper!

I did not make the Apple Pie last week though I will definitely be making it this week, for sure!

We had our “Fall” party last week, so we made our traditional “Welcome Fall” cupcakes.  You can see last year’s cupcakes HERE.

Spice cupcakes with Vanilla, cinnamon, cream cheese frosting!

I will start testing for holiday recipes this week too; my first test will be a Spinach casserole!

Monday:  French Onion Soup & Caesar Salad

Tuesday: Baked chicken and Spinach, Mushroom, and Artichoke Casserole

Wednesday: Leftovers/ Picnic Dinner (Just me n the boys)

Thursday:   Slow Cooker Beef Stew (I did not make this last week)

Friday:    Super Nachos ~ The BEST nachos, I boys love them!

Saturday: Leftovers / Picnic Dinner (Just me n the boys)

Sunday: Dinner at Troy’s parents

Dessert:  Grandma Ople's Apple Pie

To view more menus for MPM hop on over to Laura's blog !

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I hope everyone has a very blessed and productive week!

Tiany