March(ing) Along

Halfway through this banger of a month! This week technically has quite a few things going on, but as I look at the calendar I don’t feel overwhelmed by any of them.

Cooking

This week’s meal plan:

Saturday: Potstickers, stir fry veggies, rice
Sunday: Corned Beef, potatoes, cabbage
Monday: Tacos, taco veggies, rice, tortillas
Tuesday: Honey Garlic Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner, carrots & broccoli, rice
Wednesday: Taco Pasta, creamy green salad
Thursday: Thai Chicken Stiry Fry, stir fry veggies, rice
Friday: Irish Beef & Root Vegetable Stew, rolls

Clothing

It’s all about the prom dresses, baby

Cleaning

I repeat: It’s all about the prom dresses, baby

Caring

Rachel needs help with rehearsing for her choir concert this week. She’s singing the mezzo line in a very difficult song and it’s hard to sing the middle part on anything, let alone this whopper. Time has been scheduled to work with her.
I feel like I need to find some time to spend with Nathaniel. But Cross Country starts up next week and I’ll be spending a lot of time at his meets for the next many weeks, so maybe I can just allow it to happen then?
A lot of office stuff needs to happen. We’ve just been really busy and it’s been hard to find the time to do that.

Creativity

At Home:
- Fat Quarter Shop upcoming quilt: It’s called the “Layer Cake Latte” quilt, and it’s coming along. All the blocks are completed and I am in the midst of joining them. All that’s left is adding the skinny border around it and then the top will be done. I had hoped to get it completely quilted before the due date, but that’s not going to happen because I FORGOT ABOUT THE PROM DRESSES and need to sew like the wind on those.
- Prom Dresses: Yeah, they’re all I can think about at the moment. Ren’s fabric is here and it’s gorgeous. The pattern for her dress was only available as a PDF (boo!) and it’s printed but not yet taped together. Not looking forward to the taping. Once the Layer Cake Latte quilt is assembled I’ll hop right on over to sewing up Ren’s muslin. Rachel has picked out a dress pattern that I crazy, crazy love and cannot wait to tell you about because it’s so cool—it almost shouldn’t even exist—but I have to focus on Ren’s dress first because she’s a senior and that’s how that works.
Van Crafting Sessions™: I’ll keep chipping away at designing wedding shawls for my girls. A lot of the kids’ music lessons are cancelled this week, so I might not have a whole lot of van crafting time.

Gardening

Set up trellises for peas, reattach trellis netting on France for eventual sweet pea climbers
Something with the Delphiniums
Sow pansies, violas
Put plant markers in by sown seeds
Start marigold seeds

Celebrating

Easter’s on the horizon, but I don’t think we’re doing anything in particular for it.
Nathaniel’s birthday is next month, so I’ll start slowly getting organized for that. Time to pull up the “gift ideas” note to myself that I add to throughout the year and start watching for sales.

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