Menu Plan Monday February 17/2014

Here is hoping that we are not coming down with the flu now as my stomach felt a bit off tonight. Hence the quickly thrown together dinner of Tortellini, something that the kids love!

Monday: Tortellini with Alfredo sauce. Side of cucumbers for kids and sauteed mushrooms for adults. Not gluten free but quick and easy. I didn't eat much of it anyway.

Tuesday:  Tuna Curry with rice and peas. Substituted with rice flour to make it gluten free and evaporated milk since I don't have half and half on hand. I made this recently for a friend while her baby was in the hospital and even her pickiest child loved it!

Decorating with wall decals: Vinyl Disorder Review

Living in rental units we used Wall decals to spruce up the kids bedroom walls as it was a great non-permanent solution. 

I had always wanted to put up a wall quote in our bedroom but there were so many to choose from and I wasn't sure how difficult it would be to apply something with words rather than the characters we were used to putting up in the kids room.

The Kindness of Strangers

I am linking up with Mama Kat's Writers workshop. When I saw the prompt "A time a stranger helped you"  I knew that I had to share this story from when I was pregnant with Nathan, back in 2001.

It was Friday night, right around 6pm {this fact will become important later}.

I was 16 weeks pregnant.

A co-worker offered me a ride home and I asked to be dropped off at the shopping mall.

I stopped at McDonald's for dinner {darn pregnancy cravings} and at the grocery store for something.

I started off to walk home. I approached the cross walk and the light was green. I thought I had time to make it across as I had done so many other times. So I did not wait until I could press the button and cross on the walk signal {that never lasts long enough anyway}.

Forget Me Nots Giveaway Hop - Ends 2/14 #ForgetMeNots

Happy Valentine’s Day! MamaNYC is hosting the Forget Me Nots Giveaway Hop and we’re so excited to have an amazing group of bloggers participating. Everyone has a prize to giveaway that is worth $20.00 or more. This event will run until February 14th, which means you will have plenty of time to enter all of our giveaways. Good Luck and Happy Valentine’s Day!