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Doctor told me to cut back on carbs and up my protein so no spaghetti this week. I am excited about the chicken lazone, it reminds me of the butter chicken I make all the time. I hope it is as good.

• Spaghetti with meatballs, spinach, garlic bread
• Spicy Fish w/risotto & steamed green beans
• Butter Chicken with brown rice & salad
• Chicken Lazone with brown rice & steamed broccoli
• Simple Whitefish With Lemon and Herbs, salad, baked potatoes & sauteed zucchini
• Potato Soup with salad

Head on over to Organizing Junkie for more great menu plans.

Doctor told me to cut back on carbs and up my protein so no spaghetti this week.  I am excited about the chicken lazone, it reminds me of the butter chicken I make all the time.  I hope it is as good.

• Roasted Chicken with sauteed green beans, baked potatoes & salad
• Southern Fried Salmon Patties w/risotto & steamed green beans
• Soup Beans with corn bread & salad
• Chicken Lazone with brown rice, salad & steamed broccoli
• Simple Whitefish With Lemon and Herbs, salad, baked potatoes & sauteed zucchini
• Perfect Pork Loin with carrots, potatoes, and green beans

Head on over to Organizing Junkie for more great menu plans.

Had a request for the penne rustica I made on Valentine’s Day, so it is on the menu this week.  It is absolutely delicious.  Friday will be the boys favorite fish dish, Poor Man’s Lobster.  Very easy and tasty!

• Penne Rustica with garic bread & salad
• Loosemeat Sandwiches with salad & fries
• Poor Man’s Lobster with baked potatoes & green beans
• Spaghetti w/ salad & garlic bread
• Tuna Casserole w/mashed potatoes & peas
• Black Pepper Chicken w/rice

Head on over to Organizing Junkie for more great menu plans.

Last week was a bit nutty, so I have a few repeats this week. Better to use what you already have than to buy more.

• MaMa’s Supper Club Tilapia Parmesan with rolls, salad, & baked potatoes
• Potato Soup with salad & rolls
• Butter Chicken w/garlic naan & salad
• Spaghetti w/ salad & garlic bread
• ” Ant” Kelly’s London Broil Marinade w/risotto & lima beans
• Chili w/rice 

Head on over to Organizing Junkie for more great menu plans.

Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing and crying…

Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment.

Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rejoice.

Satisfaction and ultimate fulfillment are by-products of dedicated love. They belong only to those who can reach beyond themselves; to whom giving is more important than receiving.

Love is doing everything you can to help others build whatever dreams they have.

Love involves much careful and active listening. It is doing whatever needs to be done, and saving whatever will promote the other’s happiness, security, and well-being. Sometimes, love hurts.

Love is on a constant journey to what others need. It must be attentive, caring, and open, both to what others say and to what others cannot say…

Love says no with empathy and great compassion.

Love is firm, but when needed it must be tender.

When others have tried and failed, love is the hand in yours in your moments of discouragement and disappointment. Love is reliable.

Love is a choice and commitment to others’ true and lasting happiness. It is dedicated to growth and fulfillment. Love is not selfish.

Love sometimes fails for lack of wisdom or abundance of weakness, but it forgives, knowing the intentions are good.

Love does not attach conditions….Genuine love is always a free gift.

Love realizes and accepts that there will be disagreements and disturbing emotions…There may be times when miles lay between, but love is a commitment. It believes and endures things.

Love encourages freedom of self. Love shares positives and negatives reactions to warm and cold feelings.

Love, intimate love, will never reject others. It is the first to encourage and the last to condemn.

Love is a commitment to growth, happiness, and fulfillment of one another.

~Barb Upham

Love is love, what else can we strive for but to love one another unconditionally?

NOt much money this week so we are eating out of the freezer.

• Spaghetti w/salad
• Soup Beans with corn bread
• Country Ham & Biscuits w/potatoes
• Pancakes, eggs, & fruit
• Southern Fried Salmon Patties w/risotto & steamed green beans
• Lemon Garlic Fish w/peas, mashed potatoes, & rolls

Head on over to Organizing Junkie for more great menu plans.

I am sure that most people have heard about Salma Hayek’s act of charity when she breastfed a week old baby in Africa whose mother had no milk. The net has erupted in an uproar over the video with reactions ranging from elation on the crunchy mom front to disgust by many in the mainstream blogging world.

In my opinion, Salma did what any compassionate woman would do. How could a mother who hears a baby cry from hunger not want to feed it. I haven’t breastfed in three years and my breasts still ache when I hear a hungry baby cry. It is a physical reaction. I just can’t imagine having milk and turning my back on a hungry baby.

I truly don’t understand the aversion. I know that wet-nursing has a lot of historic class ramifications associated with it. I understand that back in the day poor women became the milk cow for wealthy mother’s who did not want to be tied down by an infant. I can understand why as a society we would not want that to happen again. But what I don’t get is why there is such a gross-out factor for so many people. How is breastfeeding another woman’s baby at your breast different than donating your milk? As long as you are healthy and disease free, I seriously don’t understand why anyone would think it is “gross.”

Salma has done a service for us all in my opinion. She brought awareness of breastfeeding to Africa and showed one of the most admirable traits a person can possess, compassion. Thanks Salma from me and all the breastfeeding mom’s I know! You are a hero!