the weekend!
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If you’re having a house full of people for Thanksgiving, start prepping now. Do any major cleaning that you feel you *must* accomplish in order to feel confident. Do you need to wipe down the kitchen cabinets? Move out the stove and clean underneath? the fridge? Clorox wipe the blinds? You know yourself, and you know what is important—and it’s different for every person. I like to Cinderella-clean the kitchen floor. Twice. I like to go over it once with a Magic Eraser, then again with a scrubby sponge and cleanser. And then I sponge mop. It’s nuts, it’s overkill, no one notices OR cares, except for me.
It makes me feel good.
What’s the one thing that will make you feel really good, really accomplished? Get it over and done with now, so next weekend you can begin prepping food and setting out platters.
This weekend:
deep clean the one thing that bugs you the most
make a timeline for Thanksgiving. Do you have to do a butcher run? a bakery run? delegate side dishes? borrow crockpots? Write it all down, so then you can outsource the tasks.
Tuesday, run errands and all that other stuff you should do
November 9, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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Good morning!
How did you do yesterday with the weekend recovery and PROMing the china/linen cabinet? Did you uncover any great treasure?
Today:
PROM the tupperware area and spice cabinet. Get rid of any spices that you don’t remember buying, or which have lost smell. If you can’t smell it, you won’t taste it! 
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Good morning! How was your weekend? I’m happy to report that the bees have moved on. We seemed to have been a stop for a migrating colony, and they have evidently relocated thanks to Duraflame. 
I’m looking forward to an uneventful week—the kids have gotten lots of sleep thanks to daylight savings time, and the big girls and I made 9(!) stops in the morning before 10am. It’s quite difficult to find rain boots in November while it’s raining…
Today:
meal plan for the week, and make a plan for Thanksgiving
PROM the china cabinet and wherever you keep your fancy table linen
Tuesday run errands and make stuff happen
November 2, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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Good morning! At my in-law’s cabin there’s an alarm clock in the guest room that has a very loud voice that yells out “Wake Up! Don’t Sleep Your Life Away!” as it’s wake up call.
It’s loud. It’s kind of annoying. But it definitely gets everybody up!
What’s your today looking like? Are you awake? Are you living in the moment? Are you aware of your surrounds, your actions, your thoughts, your knee-jerk reactions?
Today:
make sure meal plan is current
Wake up! Don’t sleep your life away!
tuesday! check meal plan, run errands
October 26, 2010 by Stephanie · 4 Comments
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We are fast approaching the 300th day of the year, and I’m realizing it is going to land on my grandpa’s birthday. That’s neat. I wonder if he knows that? Unless it’s a leap year, that should be a natural phenomenon, right?
oh neat! wordpress automatically spelled phenomenom right for me. neat.
Today:
make sure your meal plan is set. Sunday is Halloween—have your meal plan get you through this day so you’re not at the store this weekend.
Now! buy candy. only so you don’t have to run another errand later in the week. If you don’t trust yourself, put it in your husband’s trunk or something similar so it’s out of sight and hopefully out of reach!
Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown
Tuesday: run errands; make sure you actually did your meal plan
October 5, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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Hello! If you have errands to do, get them done and over with. How’s your meal plan going? We’re having crockpot turkey breast tonight, which will provide leftovers for Wednesday, and probably a bit more for lunches the rest of the week. Thursday night we’re going to have some sort of bean soup because I’ve got the ends of a few bags of dried beans taking up valuable real estate. Friday night I’m at BlogHer so Adam will probably do Taquitos, and Sat night the kids are at grandma’s.
Today:
Wednesday, day 265
September 22, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
265!
Thank you so much for all of your help and suggestions yesterday about Jennifer’s situation. I’ve emailed her all of your comments, and know she greatly appreciates your input.
you all rock.
Today:
dust, vacuum, and quick mop. Oh! and does anyone have one of those Hoover Floor Mates they are showing on TV? Is it bad to covet a mop/vacuum?
make sure your meal plan is up to date. Plan stuff for the weekend so you’re not tempted to hit the drive through or a restaurant. Unless someone else is paying—then you should go for it!
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. –Alan Lakein
the weekend, fun & games and yard work
August 14, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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Congratulations on making it through another week. Make this weekend count. Stay present and aware and live in the moment. Don’t check out when playing with the kids or listening to them read. Step away from the computer and put down the blackberry.
This is it. You’re only going to have today once.
This weekend:
spend time with the family
meal plan for the week
anything need to happen in the yard? divvy up the work if applicable
Tuesday! day 214
August 3, 2010 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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Good morning! I left Adam in charge yesterday to do the weekend recovery while I ran a few errands and got a pedicure. It was a lovely day!
Today:
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It’s Thursday. Thursday is meltdown day in the O’Dea household. I can already feel it in the air—the kids and I have been going non-stop since 6am Monday morning, and we’ve got a full weekend lined up.
we need to stay in today and veg.
if I’m lucky there’s a Life on the D List marathon on Bravo…
Today:
meal plan for the weekend, and for next week. We’re hosting 2 parties, are you entertaining this weekend?
be nice.
hug your kids close.
