Menu Plan Monday - Happy Leap Day!

Happy Leap Day!
Are you doing anything special to celebrate? I think I will be using my extra day to have extra coffee, do extra laundry, and catch up on extra school work! :D I hope your plans are better than mine! Haha.
I am also using this day to be extra happy that I have one more day to stay the age I am now. (Which I'm not telling, by the way!) If it weren't Leap Day today, it would be my birthday! :D I guess I'll just have to wait until tomorrow...
Speaking of my birthday...it's in March. (Obviously) The month of St. Patrick's Day, and all things green and Irish! A little fun fact about me - my heritage is Irish! How perfect that I was born in this month. This year, I am really trying to embrace my heritage. I decided that instead of making an Irish meal just on St. Patrick's Day, I will make them throughout the month. I recently shared on Instagram and Facebook that I got this cookbook in the mail last week, just in time! It has been sitting on my Amazon wish list for a year now! I was super excited to finally get it. And looking through the recipes made me even more excited. I will be trying one (supper) recipe out each week, on Thursdays. I am also planning on making the baked goods and breakfast meals throughout the month. I can't wait!

We had a crazy dinner week last week, so you may see some repeats from last week that we didn't get to.  Thankfully all the ingredients are frozen! :)

Today is leftover day!
We have some Chili mac & cheese, salad, pizza, and maybe some other things

Chicken burrito bowls 

Ingredients: Chicken, onion, rice, chicken broth, cheese, black beans, rotel

Pork Chops, green beans, roasted potatoes

Irish Onion Soup with Cheese Toasties

Ingredients: Sweet Onions, garlic, white wine, beef stock, thyme, bread, smoked cheddar

Pizza

Ingredients: Pizza dough, pizza sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, bell peppers

Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients: Chicken, pie crust, mixed veggies, cream of chicken, milk, mozzarella

Spaghetti, meatballs, garlic bread, salad

Ingredients: Spaghetti, sauce, bread, salad ingredients

There you have it, the first week of March, already!!

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xo

St. Paddy's Day Crafts

       Since it is almost Easter, and since I missed almost the whole month of March, I think it is only fair that I share our crafts we made for St. Patrick's Day! This way, you can be {WAY} ahead for next year!
       It seems odd to me that St. Pat's and Easter are in the same month. Isn't Easter supposed to be in April? I am  not complaining- I love Easter, but it just seems strange.
       Anyways...we made St. Pat's crafts at the beginning of the month, and waited until after to start on the Easter ones ( I will be sharing those soon!)
One of the first crafts we did were these shamrocks:

 To make these, I cut one sheet each of dark green, light green, and yellow tissue paper into squares. They do not have to be perfect little squares. Just small enough to have room for lots of colors.

Then, I got a piece of green cardstock and cut out the outline of a shamrock. I got a piece of clear contact paper and placed the outline on to it. I let the boys go to town "decorating" their clovers. Jacob chose to place carefully, while Kyle wanted to dump the whole bucket and be done! :)

 

When they were all done, I put another piece of contact paper on top to hold it all toether and cut out the shape. It is now hanging on our awesome hanging thing from IKEA.

We also made another painting like the one we made for Valentine's Day. This time, I let Jacob do the painting, and gave Kyle a little canvas of his own to do what he wanted with. I am seriously in love with what J decided to do. It looks awesome! Before I share, here is what that project looked like!

Lots of green paint!

 

 

 

 

We only made a *little* mess!! :)

 

J hard at work!

Here is the end result! I can't stop looking at it! I think he did a great job!

One final thing we ( I ) did was a scratch art picture. I will be sharing the whole project next week, but for now, this is what it looked like to start

 

 I can't wait to finish sharing the rest of our month with you! See you soon!