(Figured I might as well share my process AND get it done at the same time!)
DINNERS
Tonight: Sticky orange chicken with brussels sprouts (chosen by G from the Caroline Chambers cookbook) + rice
Monday: (PrepDish recipe) Cori-lime salmon with cheesy spinach quinoa (note: quinoa haters will eat leftover rice)
Tues/Weds: (PrepDish recipe) Chipotle ground turkey tacos
Thurs/Fri: (PrepDish recipe) Sheet pan chicken with sweet potatoes (and regular potatoes for haters) + green beans
(NEED: shopping list; TJ’s excursion which will happen later today)
WORKOUTS
M – leg day #1 @ the gym
T – home workout (shoulders / chest / tri)
W – Pilates (evening)
R – leg day #2 @ the gym
F – yoga with Adriene
S – biceps / back @ gym (will try going later in day because it was way too nuts at 11 AM this week)
S – Pilates
EXTRA STUFF (a lot) ON TOP OF NORMAL LIFE ACTIVITIES
Laura’s time tracking challenge! (I think you can still join!)
C – orthodontist (early pickup on Monday)
Back to school night at the HIGH SCHOOL (omg)
Various Zooms on Weds night including a “college timeline meeting” (omg again)
Post-work social Thursday night with a happy hour AND book club (planning to stop at both . . . one of our diabetes educators/nurses retired after 30 years and I cannot miss her celebration, but I also refuse to miss book club so it will be stopping by one for an hour and then going to the next, wish me luck . . . )
Parent event at G’s school Friday night
Possible weekend sleepover for one kid
TJ’s Pumpkin Dinner (was going to be lunch but there is no free and clear weekend lunchtime when kids are not at activities, so this will be elevated to a Very Seasonal Pumpkin-y Dinner. I’m thinking multiple courses . . . )
TASKS
(Yep, currently working in Google Tasks, although I will admit I have things (redundantly) captured in my little weekly planner too. Right now the redundancy feels ok.)
I’m sure many of you reading this have similarly packed weeks. A testament to the fact that there are no ‘regular’ weeks, really . . .
Okay about to continue the big weekend project: C’S ROOM. We got through all of his clothes yesterday! Wish us luck . . .
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I’m a quinoa hater, but like the sound of salmon + cheesy spinach. I have all of the ingredients to make salmon plus cheesy spinach rice at home, so I’ve gotten at least one meal from your brain dump.
Thursday night will be hectic but it sounds so fun!
It’s that busy fall time of year. I am doing all the last minute shopping in preparation for moving kid2 into dorm next weekend. I had this moment unloading the groceries today that next weekend I will be shopping for the empty nest. Kind of nutty. We have all the fall kick off stuff at work as it is almost the start of the autumn quarter here on the west coast.
oh my goodness what a moment!!!! so exciting but I’m sure incredibly bittersweet!
G has homework! I am wondering if Paul will this year. He didn’t have much last year besides the occasional math packet. I wouldn’t mind a little bit of homework for him TBH…
I travel M-Th this week to Dallas so it feels atypical after barely traveling this summer. But it will be typical for the fall as I have 7 trips between now and Thanksgiving. Bleh.
this is the first year! weekly IXL and studying for a vocab test. before that it was just reading and this monthly project on various earth science type topics.
*reads NZ request and hopefully thinks it’s a request to come here to New Zealand* 😀
i wish!!!! More of a possible remote opportunity. (But Best Laid Plans Live: NZ Edition would be so fun!!!)
I’m glad that our district did away with open house/back to school night. I guess they decided that it’s too close to meeting your teacher for anyone to get anything out of it, so a couple years ago they let it go. I would not have to add it x3 to the calendar right now.
For us that’s the same thing as meet the teachers otherwise we never do! Which is maybe ok but I always feel like I should go …