What's For Dinner? Week 3

It's a new week and I'm newly refreshed and motivated to cook (and clean - but that's another post)! After the chaotic weekends that surrounded Will's birthday, we should have more time to just chill out now and focus on normal life. We're still making plans for various weekend activities, but making sure to keep up with the things that are important day-to-day: family meals, down time, playing outside, reading books, sleep, etc.

I just finished finalizing my meal plans for next week and making my grocery list for shopping tonight - it's Thursday already! But this week we're mostly doing meals from the freezer and scrounging a bit since I didn't have time to cook last weekend:
1) chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese
2) chili mac and steamed veggies (Sophie loved the chili mac!)
3) steak dinner out (Tuesday night)
4) beef and bean burritos
Thanks goodness for my deep freeze!

On a side note, does anyone else feel like this picture is/was the story of their life? :)
Sometimes it feels like all we do is feed and clean up children - especially on weekends. A couple weeks ago, Craig asked me if I thought other people run their dishwashers as much as we do. I said "probably more" considering we only feed them dinner on weekdays. Saturday & Sunday involve 3 meals and occasional snacks, but I swear it seems we are cleaning high chair trays, place mats and bibs constantly. Our counters look like the above picture OFTEN!

On a positive note, Sophie has come around to quite a few foods she previously refused. HOORAY!!! It still depends on the day and her mood, but she's getting better about just eating what we eat. Here she's chowing on some quesadilla with black beans, avocado chunks, broccoli and strawberries. She didn't eat the broccoli this day, but we'll keep trying.

She has also changed her mind about cantaloupe and scrambled eggs. Very helpful!

Hope everyone is having a yummy week!