Tuesday Talk!

Hey friends!!

Happy Tuesday!! How are you doing?

We're all good at our house! Not too much is going on at the moment...and I am loving it :)

Per the usual- my mind has hundreds of thoughts and ideas floating around in it...let me share a few with you!

Well. I am not doing a great job with several of the "things I was excited about" at the beginning of the new year. I am referencing this blog post I wrote- you can find it HERE.

I started off the year strong by meal planning for the entire month of January. LOVED it! It was so helpful! Do you think I continued that into February? Nope. Sure didn't. I have literally been flying by the seat of my pants every week this month. I did finally force myself to plan our dinners for this week AND I am trying out a new recipe (GO ME!) I thought these potato chip chicken tenders looked yummy!! Who doesn't love chicken baked in chips?!? 

You can find the recipe HERE. 

I also started out the year saying that I was really going to cut down my spending and not buy anything clothing for myself for 5 months. Well. I have definitely cut down my spending A LOT. But- last week I bought myself a couple hoodies from Old Navy and a t-shirt from Target. 

IN MY DEFENSE- all items were ON SALE. The hoodies were actually on sale for $14 from $40- so they were a steal. (As you can see- I am really good at rationalizing my purchases)

 I am back on the no spending money clothing train- EXCEPT for a pair of jean shorts I am planning on buying in a couple of months. 

I was also "excited" to not scroll so much on Instagram. I was doing SO SO good - and then I got super sick. And I was laying on the couch so much and got so sick of watching TV, that I started my yucky scrolling habit back up. I haven't been great about getting it back in check. 

I NEED TO. 

So yeah..you can see- I am really killing it over here! HA! 

Speaking of dinner- I made ground beef tacos for dinner last night. I put out crunchy shells, flour tortillas and tortilla chips (we LOVE the multigrain tortilla chips from Aldi!!). Every single one of my kids ate dinner and did not act like I was poisoning them. HA! I am sure you are thinking to yourself- "of course your kids ate dinner- it was TACOS." 

Except all of my kids have strongly disliked tacos for years. It has just been in the last few months that I can OCCASIONALLY make tacos and it's acceptable. Which has just been so so painful for Aaron and me- because we LOVE tacos. Anyway...maybe we are turning a corner and we can be a normal family who eats tacos happily ;)

As I was cleaning my kitchen last night, I thought to myself- "I LOVE having a prep sink in our island!" So random. But I actually think this thought a lot. Before moving into our house, I never thought about having a sink in a kitchen island- let alone want one. But I have to tell you- that little sink is SO handy. It's nice to have an extra sink for washing hands right before meals and it's so handy when I am prepping food or baking! 

It's definitely not necessary at all- but I really do love it!

I just placed orders with Old Navy, Walmart and Amazon and pretty much got everything I need for my kids' Easter baskets. I really like shopping early for holidays. Shopping for 3 girls- with strong opinions about what they like + my two boys- it can be somewhat time consuming!! I have a budget I follow and it takes a lot of searching and watching sales. All that to say- I am glad to have that shopping done! And I am really hopeful that the things I bought my two older daughters work. I luckily can try their things on and know if they will fit my girls! 

Aaron and I were talking recently and we agreed we are in our semi anti-social era. HA!

Here's the deal- we love people! And we love doing things with people. But in this season of our life- we really have no desire to do anything social on the weekends. I am busy all week with the kids, a little bit of work, I have a couple good friends who I make an effort to spend time with regularly and I spend every Thursday with my mom. Aaron's days are long. He sees A LOT of patients and his job can be somewhat mentally exhausting. So by the time Friday rolls around- all we want to do is hang out with each other and our kids. If we are hanging out with anyone else- it's my mom and my brother and his family. And we are SO good with it. 

I know things will pick up as the weather gets warmer...it always does! 

But for right now- I am truly loving our very very very light social calendar!

I definitely could keep rambling on..but I think I am going to cut it off here :)

I really hope you have a GREAT day!! And thank you for stopping by my little corner of the internet- it means a lot to know you want to spend a couple minutes of your day here! :)