Our Meals Website

Now, I’ve mentioned my computer genius husband before. He is the reason that my sight is new and improved. Anyway, awhile back I started planning my dinner menus and going through recipes to make my shopping lists so that I didn’t have to go to the store more than once a week. Barry decided to streamline the process for me and created a web-based program that has a data base of recipes I use and can generate a grocery list with a click, click, click. I’ve just been sitting here making a list. I just print it out, go to the store, and then put it on the fridge when I get home. No worries about what’s for dinner or if I have the ingredients and it’s so easy!!

The cool thing is that anyone out there can use it and add recipes. So I’m isuing a plea if there is anyone out there actually reading this… I’m tired of the same old, same old. Come join in the fun and add some recipes, make your shopping lists, and let’s create a healthy-eating, shopping once a week community!

Here’s the site. The details of how to use it are right on the first page. You do need to set up a username and password so that it knows who to give credit to for recipes you enter, and also so you can retrieve past menus should you leave your list in you shopping cart and need a reminder of what you planned.

Come on, join in the fun!

We Have Returned

And for the most part, without casualty. Unless you want to count the wake of destruction Ellie left in her path through our house, but what’s one new, striped, favorite wing-back living room chair more or less? I’m sure repairing the damage will cost less than it would have to board her somewhere, so I’ll try not to dwell on the very large hole chewed in our dining room carpet. I wanted new flooring there anyway and this has just expedited the process. So thanks, Ellie. We were crazy to leave you home alone for ten days with only baby gates to deter you from chewing up furniture and 3 neighborhood kids to run around with you in the yard a little every day.

We had a nice trip. We drove a lot. We stayed with family. We saw the ocean and some church history sights, played with cousins, went to a birthday party, listened to lots of books on CD…

After all the excitement, we are all VERY ready to sleep in our own beds.

On the go

We’re in New Hampshire to visit family. It was a nice drive and today we went to the beach. Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be back in a week with good stories to tell :)