New Week, New Schedule, New Menu!

So, the husband switched up his work schedule a tiny bit. He goes in at 7:00 now and works with the kids getting ready for school before school and then gets a long lunch break instead of having to eat with them, and then stays til 4:00 to do wrap up paperwork or meetings depending on the day. The big difference is the 7:00am and long lunch. See, I've always packed my husband's food for him. I love doing that for him, food is definitely one of my love languages! But, before, he went in at 8:00, so he usually munched on a bagel while getting ready and I just had to fix his coffee, and since he ate with the kids he didn't have a ton of time and couldn't bring anything fancy, so I usually just through a sandwich and a water bottle in a bag and called it done.

Now, he goes in early, so he doesn't have time to eat at home, so I'm making him a bigger breakfast for the car. He's got to last longer, so I'm mixing up instant breakfast in recycled water bottles every morning, and sending him with coffee to keep with him for the morning classes. And, because he's not eating in front of the kids, and has a longer time to eat, I'm sending him with fruit, chips and sweet of some form, either a cookie if we have any, or a fun size candy bar from the stash we keep over the fridge.

What this means is I'm up and running at 6:20 every day now, and I'm LOVING it!

I know, I'm weird, I'm a morning person by nature though, so feeling like I've accomplished something by 7:00am when I drop him off is great for my attitude towards the day! Plus, this morning I'd done a week's grocery shopping and was home by 8:00am! It's not even 9:00 and I've already gone grocery shopping, come home, taken care of a few emails and cleaned my kitchen, and I'm taking a blog break before putting away the 4 loads of laundry from this weekend and catching up on my DVR'd shows. Mondays I don't work until noon, so I'm just imagining the possibilities today holds! This is great!

Okay, next on to do list, start crock pot with tonight's dinner, as follows-

Monday-
Crockpot Chicken and Rice Soup
(Due to an over abundance of leftovers that needed eating, we did not get to it this weekend.)

Tuesday-
Subs in the car on the way to a Youth Group Event

Wednesday-
Homemade Chicken Strips and French Fries with a side of Homemade Applesauce

Thursday-
Husband made pizza :)
(Pillsbury roll out crust with whatever he wants to top it with!)

Friday-
Sweet and Sour Chicken with Stir Fried Veggies over Rice

Saturday-
Not sure cause we're probably going to be doing stuff with the in-laws all day. Which means, we can finally break some news to them and then I can announce my news to you guys! I'm thinking his parents will see it as bad news, and then you guys can be my pick me up that it really is good news. So, yeah, definitely not baby news! Please, I'd like another 5 years on that one thank you!

Sunday-
No Youth Group, so probably going out, not sure where though, maybe trying the "new" (opened in August!) Chipotle since I haven't been to one in like 5 years while traveling.

Have a great day everyone!