Sunday’s Everyday Beauty
Sundays Shmundays.
I know I shouldn’t admit out-loud that Sundays are most definitely not my favorite day of the week, but it is true.
Although, most Sundays I do look forward to “Meal Planning.” The girls and I pull out every cookbook, food magazine, and favorite food blogs on my laptop to help us decide what we are going to make throughout the week. We also always keep a pad on the fridge so when one of us gets a “Fantabulous Idea” during the week, we can hurry and jot it down on the pad. With all of those things, plus my weekly calender with our dry erase markers, we get to work.
We plan our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, plus one or two treats. I talk about where we buy our food and why, and how we need to make sure we have tons of veggies, lots of fruits and not too many sugars. The girls ask me silly things like, “Is broccoli the thing that fights bad guys in our bodies?” “Why do bad guys go in our bodies? The water flushes them out right?” “Who makes broccoli? Is it from trees or not?”
Abby is obsessed (and I am more than fine with this obsession) with the type of VITAMINS in everything so we google those on my laptop. Cameron, of course, is interested in all of our cupcake cookbooks. That girl has the sweet tooth of her mother.
I love them even more during this time. I forgive them for how horribly awful they were during church and we teach each other to put care into all the food that goes in our bodies.
I love this weekly ritual we have. Maybe it makes Sunday Shmundays not so bad after all.
What do YOU love about Sundays?
Tags: Beauty in Everyday
i love that i get to spend the entire day with my husband and that i don’t have to work. sundays are by far my favorite day of the week!
I love the weekly cooking thing to. I love to take it slower which I usually do on Sunday, sometimes sleeping in. I like the extra spiritual things I do. I can’t go to church right now, bc of my narcolepsy, but I try to read more of the Bible, and talk to my husband about spiritual and theological things. Sometimes I visit w my sister, and sometimes I work on my hobbies. I just like it bc it is diff than the rest of the week, it is recreation (as in re - creation) time! Our bodies and minds can be recreated, rest and be created. And we can recreate! I love Sundays!
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I love the idea of using Sunday as meal planning day. I have gotten out of the habit of planning a menu which means we don’t eat as healthfully as we used to and mealtime stresses me out more. I love Sunday’s because it has become our special treat day. We splurge on brownies, pie, ice cream and the sort on Sunday evening while we watch a family movie. Tonight we watched National Treasure and ate Apple Dumplings.
I should do more meal planning. I plan our dinners but that’s about it! I love Sunday naps for sure and sleeping in since we have church a little later in the day.
I hope for the day of Sunday naps, we have to loud of a house!
Camy Apple Dumplings sound soo good right now
Speaking of vitamins, my 3-year-old loves sucking on chewable vitamin Cs. She asks for one almost every day and we talk about how it makes her healthy + strong and prevents her from getting sick.
Now when we are playing pretend, she will “cook” up meals with vitamin C in them so we “don’t get sick.”
It’s the cutest thing.