Bits and Pieces 6th Edition: Last Day of School!

Today is the last day of school! Hooray, we made it through another school year! It actually went by really fast. I'm sure the summer will zip by and we'll be back in school before we know it.

Here's my bits & pieces today:

1. Last day as a 4th and 2nd grader.

2. Teacher gifts. Normally I make the kids' teachers an emergency can of chocolate and give it to them with a gift card or a chamber check (which can be used at any local businesses in town).

This year I decided to go with a pinterest idea - TOTES! Because every teacher can use a bag!

I love these smaller bags that are the perfect size to fit in your purse. They recently banned shopping bags in the town where I do most of my shopping (at Sam's, Target, Lowes, etc.). I don't go there enough to remember to bring my own bag, so I need one of these small ones.

3. Perfect day for bubbles on the deck in jammies.

4. I'm super glad that I still have some of these yummy peanut butter cookies that I made yesterday. (I posted this on facebook yesterday at dinnertime.) They are seriously my favorite. Perfectly light and fluffy! I think I might need one now. (My baby likes cookie dough too...does that make me a bad mom?)

Photo: Sometimes I have to just ignore everything I should be doing and feed my peanut butter cookie craving. #cookiesfordinner

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All righty...I'm off to enjoy our last three more hours of the school year.

What are you doing today? Are your kids still in school?

Find my other bits and pieces posts here.

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Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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