Ok, i haven't posted menues in a while and I don't think everyone else has either. Are we still doing it?  Here is this week and next.

M=Baked Talapia, rice pilaf, (sort of) broccoli
T=Spaghetti (homemade sause of course) and garlic bread
W=leftovers
T=Steak fajitas
F=BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, au gratin potatoes, green beans
S=Breakfast boritoes, homemade cin. rolls
S=Steve&Sue's
M=Hamburgers (on the grill woo-hoo) and fries (obviously I will switch this one with another day based on weather)
T=Chicken fetucini alfredo, broccoli
W=Tortelini soup, salad
T=Almond,chicken,rice casserole
F=Homemade BBQ chicken pizza
S=Biscuits&gravy, homemade sticky buns
S=Steve&Sue's

Ok, and for Suz and whoever else asked, I can't remember here is my "red soup" recipe.

Brown 1lb ground beef with 1/2 onion chopped and a few tsp. minced garlic. Add about 1/2cup to a cup each of chopped celery, carrots, red potatoes, corn, green beans and whatever other veggie you like.  Add 2 1/2 cups vegetable juice, (V8 or an off brand) 2cups water, 1tsp salt, pinch pepper (I use Mrs Dash), 1tsp sugar, some garlic salt and whatever else you want to season it with and simmer for 1 hour or until veggies are tender. Mix 4Tbsp flour with 1/2 cup milk and stir into soup. Bring to a boil. Add 3 cups of milk and serve.

Ok, so I guess I'm supposed to post my menus now.  So Suz, Jes, Bethany, and Ashley here you go.  This is for this week and next. And I guess we're just posting our main meal menues. As you guys already know, on saturday our main meal is breakfast.  The rest of the week it is dinner except Sunday when it is lunch at Steve and Sue's. K, here it is.

M=BBQ shortrib sandwiches, augratin potatoes, green beans
T=leftovers from last week
W=Red Soup (my mom's recipee & like the best soup EVER!)
Th=Chicken stir-fry
F=Chicken pesto w/noodles
Sat=Sausage gravy & biscuits, cin. rolls
Sun=out (Steve&Sues)
M=Meatloaf, mashed pot, green beans
T= Cabbage & potatoes w/ smoked sausage
W= Chicken & noodles, broccoli
Th= Rice & Beans
F= Beef Enchiladas, corn casserole, black olives
Sat= (quizz ralley so no breakfast) Chicken a la king for lunch or dinner.
Sun=out

My menus are not at all set in stone though, they are a guide to help me shop.  Sometimes I don't feel like making what I have on the menu for that day so I'll switch it with another day. Sometimes something comes up and we do something different for dinner so then I just put what was on the menu for that day on the next empty day. So on my next menu you will likely see a few of the things on this menu that didn't get made. Ok, well there it is.

I am so sorry to all that I have not updated in so long. I have no excuse other than laziness.  Anyhow, thanks again for all your prayers for Stevie.  It seems, at least for now, that he has been healed.  Praise the Lord!  After our first visit with the folks over at Cinci Children's Hospital we had been given a primary diagnosis of Juvenile Arthritis.  The Occupational Therapist had given us some little things to try to get the inflammation in his fingers down.  One was to tie a rolled up washcloth in his palm while he sleeps so that he could not clench his fist real tight.  The hope was that in not clenching his fist it would allow the inflammation to come down which would stop the fingers from locking.  We tried this right away but had trouble getting it to stay on all night.  Still, there was marked improvement from it being there even for part of the night.  He was able to get his fingers unlocked within minutes in the morning rather than hours. Then it stayed on for a whole night (we were only doing it on one hand not both at the suggestion of the OT) and in the morning his hands (both of them) were not locked at all.  I can't explain how keeping one fist unclenched caused both hands to remain unlocked, but it did.  Then we had a few more nights of it falling off during the night and a few in which it stayed on, never two nights in a row.  At this point it was taking only seconds for him to unclench them on the mornings when it did not stay on and, again, when it did stay on both hands were unlocked entirely in the morning.  Well, then it stayed on for three nights in a row! Three mornings with no locking.  Then we forgot to put it on at all the next night. Morning came, and no locked fingers. We decided to leave it off again the next night.  Morning came and no locked fingers!  So we left it off every night and...NO LOCKED FINGERS!!!! Praise the Lord! 
So, the next appointment came, which included an MRI on his left hand. (which had been the worst one)  The MRI was the most awful thing that little boy has ever had to do!  It took two hours! Now I don't know too many 5-year-old boys that are able to lay still (perfectly still) for two hours straight under any circumstances.  Add to that being strapped down and enclosed in a tube and an awful pounding noise so loud they MADE me wear earplugs just to be in the room (not even in the tube just in the room) for liability reasons and you have pure torture!  He was terrified!  But, somehow, he did it without sedation.  He was such a little trooper!  I cried a lot during those two hours.  He looked so scared and helpless in there and I couldn't really do anything about it.  We got through it though and headed over to see the OT and Rheumatologist again.  This is when it gets really cool.  They both spend quite a bit of time talking with Stevie, feeling his little hands and fingers and asking me a lot of questions.  They were stumped.  They actually said that.  There was no sign that there had ever been anything wrong with his fingers.  There was still some very minor swelling in his wrist, but they admitted it was so minor they wouldn't have even known it was there except for the MRI.  The OT told me they had never seen a case that had symptoms so severe that they were actually causing his fingers to lock every single day go completely away with such minor intervention!  She said, "We didn't even put him on any medication!"  I smiled and told her there were an awful lot of people praying.  She said, "That'll do it!" I'm not sure if she was serious or if she was patronizing me, but either way...I know it was all God. 
The Rheumatologist prescribed an anti-inflammatory med to get the rest of the swelling down, but I have decided not to fill the prescription unless something happens to make me think he needs it.  I don't want to put him on a med he doesn't really need.  I am afraid they are going to want to do another MRI in a few months to see if there is any swelling left, and again, I think I'll say no that too.  Why put him through that torture again?  Oh, his blood work all came back normal too,(they took it back when he was still having problems) which means it was never attacking his immune system which means it was never Rheumatoid.  So anyhow, that's what is going on with that.  Thanks so much for all your prayers and please continue to pray that it does not come back.  God is so good!