July Menu

Summer is in full swing here. Baseball is over and done with, so now I can cook more pleasing meals instead of hot dogs and hamburgers every week before the games.

Dinner (will be served with a veggie we like if not posted):
1 - Chicken Quesadallas, salad
2 - Country Club Sandwich, fruit salad
3 - Spaghetti, garlic bread, salad
4 - BBQ Chicken, baked potatoes, grilled veggies, and 4th of July themed dessert
5 - Dinner at FIL
6 - Hamburgers, fruit salad
7 - Chicken Burgers, potato salad, strawberry spinach salad
8 - Crockpot Beef 'n' noodles
9 - Triple decker club sandwiches, cucumber salad
10 - BBQ chicken pizza
11 - Cowgirl sandwiches
12 - Lasagna, garlic bread, salad
13 - Bruschetta chicken skillet, rice
14 - Meatball subs
15 - Cowboy chicken sandwiches
16 - Roasted porkloin, cheesy taters
17 - Hamburgers, tator tots
18 - Tuna Patties, mac n cheese
19 - Spaghetti chicken
20 - Roasted turkey breast, mashed taters & noodles, green bean casserole
21 - Baked potato bar
22 - Hot dogs, fries, slaw
23 - Copycat Steak 'n' shake Frisco Melts, Fries
24 - Chicken Enchiladas
25 - Meatball subs, slaw
26 - Heavy Breakfast buffet
27 - Easy Manicotti
28 - Sloppy Joes
29 - French bread pizzas
30 - Fried Chicken
31 - Meatloaf

QBQ

QBQ! Question behind the Question by John G. Miller. Received this book today in the mail. Love PaperBackSwap for this kind of great find. I'll not only use this concept in my work life, but in my everyday life too.

From the back of the book:
Have you ever heard questions like these?

"Why do we have to go through all this change?" "Why don't they communicate better?" "When is someone going to train me?" "Who dropped the ball?" "When is that department going to do its job right?" "When will someone share the vision?" "Why is this happening to me?" "When will we get more tools and better systems?"

If so, QBQ! is the book for you and your organization.

In today's business culture, the lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization - or individual - can achieve its goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill its vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. The solution is an entirely new approach - characterized by new thinking and behaviors - where we no longer give lip service to teamwork, but ask, "What can I do to contribute?" and "How can I make a difference?" John G. Miller helps us make this happen. This new, hard-hitting book from the author of Personal Accountability shows us all how to become more effective and successful. Using succinct, lighthearted stories and easy-to-read chapters, Miller gives us a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action, which can bring astonishing results: Problems get solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change more quickly.

In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller presents a winning handbook you'll want to keep close by for situations requiring personal accountability. It's a terrific resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous value to our organizations and our lives by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination.

English Curriculum

Talking with a fellow homeschooler today. She mentioned I really need to get a hard core curriculum for my oldest's needs. He'll be starting high school this fall. I don't like the hard core stuff. He will be doing nothing but school work all day instead of the few hours that it normally takes us. That's one of the reasons we love homeschooling so much.

Looks like I need to do some soul searching on this. Is it because I don't want to spend more time teaching, out of my day of things to do? Or is it because I know he'll fight me tooth and nail on it? Or is it because I really don't think he needs this type of curriculum, instead that I can teach him better myself? Lots to think about. Research needed.

Tent is up

Yesterday afternoon the kids and I put up the tent. Forty-five minutes it took up to put it up, huge sucker. Sleeps 10 people. The boys even put the hammock & stand in there so one could sleep in it. LOL! I made sure they had extra blankets, pillow, and were dressed warmly (it got down to 59 last night). For the first time they told me goodnight before it was time for bed.

I have to say, it was fun to watch them with their excitement of this new adventure. Each kid brought most everything they own to have in the tent. At 5:30 this morning, all the boys were all up, hungry, and a little cold. Yet they have already told me that they were sleeping out there again tonight.

Times like these I wish I was a kid again just to experience these adventures.

FireFox Fans - New upgrade 3.0 is now available

I love FireFox, much better than anything else I've used in the past. Got information that today, Mozilla FireFox is wanting to set a Guinness World Record (great marketing ploy isn't it?) for the MOST software downloads in 24 hours.

There website is blogged down and takes forever to get in due to this demand. Instead, I found this download link: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

The new version is nice so far. Need to play with it more. Have fun and lets see if we can break a world record. ; )