Friendship Card, Kids, and Cooking

Tomorrow is Friendship Day so I thought I would post a picture of a card I made a couple of weeks ago.  This card was used with my Cricut Expression and I used the Create a Critter cartridge.  It is one of my favorite cartridges by far!  The sentiment is from one of my favorite stamp lines, My Pink Stamper.  However, I believe the sentiment from this stamp set is retired unfortunately.

The day is still early, but I just have to say that both of my kids are incredibly pleasant today.  Neither of them have fussed or cried or had a meltdown yet.  But it is still early and there will be plenty of time for that to happen.  My hope is that by the time they go to bed tonight that neither will have made my day difficult.  But we all know kids can change at a drop of a hat.  I just have to hope and pray that they'll be pleasant all day.

For the past few nights I have been making a chicken stir fry of some sort for dinner.  There isn't a set recipe for it.  I just throw in some veggies, cook the rice, put the rice in with the pan, and add seasonings here and there and call it a meal.  My husband loves it though.  So, tonight for dinner I am going to make another chicken stir fry.  We went grocery shopping yesterday to get enough meals for the weekend.  While my son is napping today and tomorrow I am going to start menu planning again.  I also need to start writing down my cleaning schedule for when my husband goes back to work.  Right now I just do laundry every once in a while; which is a big mistake cause I end up with a mountain pile of dirty clothes, I haven't done a deep cleaning to the bathrooms since June, but it's not that dirty surprisingly, and there are so many other things that I need to start doing again once my husband goes back to work.

This summer has been fun but we didn't go anywhere and didn't see a lot of family.  But my brother-in-law is coming to visit at the end of this month, and my mother-in-law is coming out to visit at the beginning of September.  It will be nice to see them since we don't get to see that often.  My mother's best friend came out to visit and we got to see her and her husband, which was nice since the last time I saw her was twenty-seven years ago!  

I am going to try to make a few more cards to add to my Etsy shop this week, but I don't think I will get very far.

How did you spend your summer?