Happy Tuesday, friends, I type as a yawn escapes my mouth...Cadáin, who is now almost one year old, isn't a fan of sleeping through the night, so we find ourselves often very tired the next day. I feel like we're constantly playing a big game of catch up in pretty much every area. Ask me which area of life I feel like I'm crushing right now...and I don't think I would know how to answer (and definitely not because I'm crushing them all...)!

For a lot of you, school has ended, or has mostly ended. We're pretty much done, although still working on a bit of math and French, and I have some things I want the kids to focus on during the summer, but a very light load. I can't do much more than that right now, cuz I gotta sleep sometime! Haha!

Here's this week's menu - I hope you're able to find a few meals on here to serve up around your table this week or next!

Happy June to you! I was kind of struggling with what to make this week for the weekly menu and I think I've just decided to make some of mine and the kids favorites for dinner. What's your week looking like? Our weekend wasn't super restful - we had a bunch of errands that needed to be taken care of. However, summer break is here (except Eden wants to make some more progress in math and we'll continue read aloud), but I think this week is a good week to tackle my yearly spring clean of the kids' bedrooms. I do this every year before we clean out our garage so we can have a huge pile of things to take to donation...I'm ready for it.

Here's what's on the menu this week:

Mediterranean Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken

This easy recipe for Mediterranean Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken is simple and smoky, with hints of spice and sweetness. Make ahead and throw on the grill!

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Bacon-Wrapped Cheese Dogs

This is so easy, it's barely even a recipe! Instead of plain ole' hotdogs, why not punch it up with some bacon wrapped cheese dogs?

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Sweet Cream Pancakes

Fluffy & light, with a touch of sugar, vanilla, & creaminess in each bite, these sweet cream pancakes are a level up from traditional buttermilk flapjacks.

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Trainwreck Crock Pot Taco Salad

"Trainwreck" crock pot taco salad is simple, inexpensive, easily customizable, and incredibly tasty! It will please your family, or a crowd of almost any size!

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Tomato Salad-Topped Grilled Pizza

This tomato-salad topped grilled pizza is one of those super-fresh and summery dinners that just beg to be eaten outdoors!

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Blackberry Coffee Cake with Streusel Topping

This blackberry coffee cake offers the best of both worlds with blackberries scattered throughout a buttery, crumbly cake topped with streusel.

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Caprese Orzo Salad

This recipe for caprese orzo salad is a fresh, summery, low-cal take on a simple pasta salad. Serve it alongside your favorite summer dishes!

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Farmhouse Blueberry Pie

Have some blueberries around the the house this summer? This farmhouse blueberry pie is a classic, simple, and approachable way to use them up!

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As always, I like to include some extra ideas for you for the weekly menu, so I think the cobblers/crisps Pinterest board is the perfect one to share. I've got at least 70 recipes in there for you to choose from and they all look so yummy!

Personally, a cobbler is one of my all time favorite summer desserts. I request one every year for Mother's Day.

Have a great week guys!

Last week of May and it's grilling season kick off - let's gooooo! I've got a few recipes over the next few weeks that are very bbq friendly that I'm going to be testing out, like baked beans and cornbread muffins! Super excited about working on those recipes.

In weird-for-Oregon fashion, we've had an unusually dry and warm month - this never happens, so I'm hoping you are also having a nice jumpstart to summer.

Here's what's on the menu this week:

Whew! What a weekend! We drove to the coast on Friday for Grace's graduation from Ecola Bible College (she's also home now, yay!). Then Josh turned around and drove back to the coast for his brother's bachelor party; meanwhile we had a "tea party" themed potluck at church where Eden made the cutest sandwiches - look for the picture in my IG stories. But the kids and I just rested when we could on the weekend. Didn't do a lot of chores. Went to bed early. Actually, it was kind of perfect in that respect, and just what we needed, I think!

We have another busy week ahead of us and from what I'm hearing from you all, we're not the only ones who are running here and there and doing all of the things! Just the way May goes, I guess!

Let me ask you this...is there one night where you can tell your whole family to not make plans except for the plan to be with each other around the dinner table?

Here's the menu this week:

Happy month of May everyone! This is always our busiest month of the year, hands down! We've got four birthdays this month, Mother's Day, a college graduation for Grace, a bachelor party weekend (that Josh is going to) and all the wedding things because my little brother is getting hitched! It's going to be a very busy first three weeks for us...is your May like this, too?

Let's dive right into the menu for the week shall we, because I'm hungry! Because Cinco de Mayo is Friday and it happens to be my FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER, I'm sharing Mexican food recipes for the weekly menu this week! How fun right????

Hello!!! I hope you all had a great weekend! We had our usual Friday night pizza with the kids and we watched The Phantom of the Opera at The Royal Albert Hall, via Eden's request for our movie. Saturday, Josh got my car detailed for me (first time since we bought it two years ago!)...and then he and I tried out a "new" to us restaurant, Filbert's Farmhouse Kitchen...and then on Sunday we had lunch with a wonderful family from church...and then the kids came home and worked on pine wood derby cars....a very packed weekend filled with good things!

If you're an email subscriber then you saw a recipe go out for a Mandarin Orange Cake. That was an updated recipe from the archives, but if you're not an email subscriber and you missed it, then you can still find the recipe here and check it out. It's quite delightful and dare I say a very easy cake to throw together! Perfect for Mother's Day or even a birthday/holiday...or even just because. I love desserts like that, don't you?

Here's what's cooking this week here at Catz: