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Put your Meal Planning on Auto-Pilot with the Perpetual Meal Plan for Winter – FREE Printables! (Updated)

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Yay! I did it… my first big project of the year. I actually finished the Meal Plan that I’ve been working on and I wanted to share it with you. I know it’s not perfect and I’m sure there will be some changes made to it but it’s a place to start and I’m happy with that. These were inspired by The Dinner Calendar written by Fannie Merritt Farmer in 1915 but they have some modern recipes, most of which can be found on the blog. I love that I can pull/print recipes one time and be able to use them again and again over the next few months! The kids are also working on a list of muffins, oatmeal, quick bread, cookie, and dessert recipes as an add-on to this meal plan.

Why plan for the week or month when you could plan for the years to come all at one time? We have been using this for a week or so now and it has helped tremendously! I’ve also been able to simplify my Cozi calendar by using this meal planner… so nice!

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Loaded Cauliflower Casserole

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This is our take on low-carb twice-baked potatoes… it has quickly become a family favorite! You could easily use potatoes in place of the cauliflower, if you please.

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Free Party Planning Printables!

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Whew! What a year we had in 2023. We definitely had some ups and downs and lots of crazy unexpected things but we were so blessed to have spent it surrounded by friends and family who loved us!

This year, I am determined to streamline a lot of my processes and make things a little less stressful… I long for the days when I was so organized and things seemed to go smoothly with little effort. I know a lot of that has been due to things we had going on so I’ve been working on getting things back on track here. I find that breaking big projects into smaller bite-size pieces helps me out a lot.

Around the holidays I started working on this packet to help me with my Holiday/Party Planning. I can print out a new packet or just make copies of a blank one and keep them in my Holiday Planner. Then I’ll be able to jot down notes and ideas as they come to me throughout the year which will hopefully make things a lot easier as the year goes on. I have also updated my calendar with reminders about checking on upcoming events.

Feel free to use these if you want, if not I’ll just leave them here so I can find them easily! There are some prefilled pages as well as some that have been left blank for you to customize to fit your needs.

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I don’t have enough time to get it all done!

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How many times have you said this or thought this? How stressful does it feel when you feel this way?

Maybe it’s not that you don’t have enough time but maybe you have too much to do, too much to take care of, too many unnecessary obligations. When you have young kids that time can slip by all too quickly and in the blink of an eye your toddler will be towering over you with keys in his hand.

I know that things can get really crazy, really quickly around here and I’m sure it’s the same in other homes as well. The past week was a train wreck with us being sick and not being able to do many of the things we had planned to get done so now we are almost a week behind already for the New Year!

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Moving Forward in 2024

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Hey everyone! I feel like it’s been ages since I’ve actually had a chance to sit down and do anything productive. The past month has been super crazy busy around here and I definitely didn’t get as much done as I wanted to but LIFE happens and we are always getting thrown curveballs when we least expect them.

We did get to see some family that we haven’t seen in a while and we had a WONDERFUL time with them but it was over before we knew it and we had to say GOODBYE. We also had a WONDERFUL Christmas and we were able to complete most of the homemade gifts despite the ongoing oven issues. Bonus: I learned that I can bake in my NuWave!

Unfortunately, we did end up in bed for most of last week with the dreaded C word… not fun at all but we are on the mend now and the kids are definitely feeling better as they have been SUPER LOUD the past few days. My poor head is still hurting and so is my body but I know that this too will pass. I also hate to admit it but I was not in the best of attitudes over the past several weeks for many reasons but after reading this post about the OPPOSITE OF THE PROVERBS 31 WOMAN I am committed to making some changes.

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