Selfie Sunday - Me and my handsome big guy

We are in the home stretch of James's big room reno and tonight is his first night down there and I couldn't be more excited for him and for us for having pulled off this huge feat in just two weeks! I'll post some pictures after I'm in the city next week and can get the last of the stuff that we need for down there.

We went out to Walmart today and while we were out he asked if we could take a few minutes and grab some steamed milks from Starbucks while we were out. I love that he still loves spending time with me and whenever I get the chance to spend one on one time with him I try my best to make it special, even if just in a small little way.

I love this big guy so much and I'm so happy for him that he will finally have some space that is just his. Once I finally share the before and after pictures I think you'll be shocked at the progress that was made in such a short time!

A little sneak peek of his room color :) Here is a little snuggle that we had this afternoon. I am looking forward to having some quiet alone time each night with all of my kids now that they all have separate rooms!  

I'm on a roll!

Today marked the second week in a row that I planned out our meals for the week and actually went grocery shopping too! It feels good to be getting life organized well ahead of my return to work in May. I'm feeling less stressed about supper, now knowing what food I have in the house for meals and planning ahead for things I know James and I both like to eat.

Meals on this weeks menu included:
Tonight: chicken strips (not frozen, made from fresh chicken breasts), French fries (frozen), and garlic bread (loaf bought last week for something else and forgot to eat it so had to tonight!).

Tuesday: white fish, rice and carrots and broccoli (can anyone believe I am going to eat it too!)

Wednesday: French toast, bacon (for me only cause J won't eat it), and apple slices

Thursday: pork chops in mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes and peas and carrots again

Friday: No idea yet...but it's Jim's first night home so we'll probably just get Subway or pizza or something (which I haven't done at all this whole turnaround!)

Saturday: Not sure yet what we'll do for that night.

Sunday: It's our week to cook so I'm thinking maybe lasagna, but haven't decided yet.

I'm actually looking forward to the coming week knowing what is on the menu. My next goal in getting organized is to create a kind of Barrows Family menu with all the different kinds of meals that we do eat or that I would like to try to cook more often so when I am doing my meal planning for the week I can just easily flip through my menu and pick what looks good or what we haven't had lately. And if I am going to have people over more often which I have tried to do so I am not so lonely in the evenings, I'll even let them look at it and pick what they want to eat! Maybe I'll post it on here too so people can give suggestions of meals I've missed, or ones that I just shouldn't make at all :o)

And just because my monkey monster man is so cute, here he was getting in on my grocery list...a few minutes later I caught him eating it!!