Menu Monday for 9/4/17

 September, and all my lad's classes are up and running! His dad and I didn't get away this summer, so over Labor Day weekend we slipped away to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area for some couple time. Visited an Amish farm where we got three amazing tomatoes for $1.00! A farm market offered cucumbers and zucchini for 2/$1.00 and huge cabbages for $1/each! And then we forgot to get corn on the cob for Monday. (We were gone Friday to Sunday.)

The lad is still not driving because of right-foot surgery, so I am taxi-mom for awhile. Mondays/Wednesdays I take him to the community college at 11:00 a.m. and pick him up later at 1:50 p.m. On Tuesdays/Thursdays I take him to the community college at 8:00 a.m., go home, then back to pick him up at 9:25 a.m., go home, make his lunch and take him to a home school Geometry class at 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 1:00 Thursdays, only to head back and pick him up again at 2:00 when class ends.

Today it was up at 6:00, make coffee, shower/dress, make breakfast/eat (feed the lad), leave home at 7:15 to go to the college, drop him at class at 7:45 a.m., head home, write a couple of checks, do some paperwork for his Geometry class group's requirements, 9:05 head out to pick up the lad. Stopped at a store (Ranger Surplus), but they weren't open. Off to allergy shots, home 45 minutes later but stop at the store on the way, make our lunches, get back in car and consume lunch while driving, drop the lad at noon/visit and settle up payment and paperwork, head to library to drop off books due. Home briefly, pull in recycling bins, try to do this post but computer won't cooperate. Back in car, pick up lad, go again to Ranger Surplus, head home, turn around and go back to college to get (expensive commuter) coffee cup lad left in class, home again. Dinner into oven to bake, and crash in chair to do this post. I hope he can drive again soon. I'm exhausted being a taxi.

Anyway, Saturday we were traveling and Sunday we got Chinese food since we'd just gotten home and hadn't shopped. No Boy Scouts on Labor Day, but CAP on Thursday. The lad might not go because he doesn't like to be out of uniform, and in a surgical shoe he would be out of uniform. Here are the dinner plans:

Saturday (9/02): Traveling – eating out

Sunday (9/03):  Home from trip – Chinese food

Monday (9/04): hamburgers, corn on the cob, kale salad

Tuesday (9/05): oven roasted chicken, broccoli, rice

Wednesday (9/06): chili, cornbread, salad

Thursday (9/07) (CAP):  fish, green beans, noodles

Friday (9/08):  date night