Week of 4/13/14

Just another simple menu plan for this week. Last week we were so busy redoing parts of the house that I didn't plan for anything, we just went with the flow and what we ate was what got thought of when we were nearly finished for the evening. This week we're back to planning.

Sunday - Spaghetti supper with garlic bread
Monday - Chili dogs and french fries
Tuesday - Turkey meatloaf and smashed potatoes
Wednesday - "something beef" night
Thursday - Toss it in the crock pot surprise soup
Friday - Cream of mushroom soup and grilled cheese
Saturday - Leftover buffet

Sometimes we just don't know what we want to make so we'll throw a bunch of random ingredients into the crock pot and make a soup out of it. Sometimes it doesn't turn out good, but most times it turns out to be a wonderful surprise that we all enjoy. The best part of it is that there's really no planning involved! I simply look in the freezer the night before for a meat we have in excess and toss everything all together in the pot in the morning, by supper we have soup!

Linking up this week with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday!

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Serious Supper Suppositions

World English Dictionary

supposition  (ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən)
— n
1.	the act of supposing
2.	a fact, theory, etc, that is supposed
suppo'sitional
— adj
suppo'sitionally
— adv
suppo'sitionless
— adj

Yup, I had to add the definition just in case you were thinking of looking it up. So, if I'm having serious supper suppositions I'm in the act of supposing that there should be something on the menu plan so supposedly there will be something to eat each night for supper. All of these suppers listed here are mainly theories of what we'll be having for supper this week. I'm in a mind changing type of mood so at any given time on any given day this week the menu just might change.

Sunday - BBQ Steak, baked potatoes, corn, and rolls

Monday - Baked chicken and veggies

Tuesday - Pork chops, noodles, and green beans

Wednesday - Whole roasted chicken and veggies 

Thursday - Pork steaks, mashed potatoes, and side salad

Friday - Daddy and I are going out to supper, the campers will be having tuna noodle casserole with their crunchy cheese bits on top (try baking really cheap American cheese broken into squares on top of a casserole .. they come out almost like crackers and for some reason my kids love 'em)

Saturday - Soup and sandwiches

It's not a whole plan but it's not a non-existent plan either. It gives me a good foundation to jump from. It's been a rainy icky few days and I think it's affected my mood and my willingness to plan out meals (and other things that will somehow get taken care of even if the plan fails LOL).

Linking up today with Organizing Junkie Menu Plan Monday.

Cozy Menu Plan

This week Daddy and I are splitting the cooking up pretty evenly. For the nights that Daddy's cooking I'm putting a (D) for the nights that I'm cooking I'll put a (M). Our menu plan is simple but has a lot of our favorite meals in it.

Sunday - Breakfast for supper: eggs, turkey bacon, biscuits, and hash browns (M)
Monday - Cabbage soup done in the crock pot and garlic bread (D)
Tuesday - Beef stroganoff  in crock pot (M)
Wednesday - Meatloaf with ground chicken/pork (D)
Thursday - Homemade chicken quasadillas (M)
Friday - Cod fillets, fish sticks, and fried potatoes (M)
Saturday - Leftover buffet

I love using the crock pot to cook and it's fun having two right now that way if there's a lot of the one meal still I don't have to transfer everything over to another container if I want to make another meal. Chances are we'll eat cabbage soup for lunch on Tuesday as well so it won't hurt a thing to keep it on low overnight Monday. This makes our beginning of the week very easy as well as nice and warming since we have a cold front projected all the way until Thursday (if you call being in the low 40s a warm up like we do).

Linking up this week with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Mondays.

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Kids and St. Pat's Menu

Well, it was decided that last week all week was going to be surprise pretty much because Daddy cooked all week. And he did a great job! We had spaghetti, shrimp pasta, and chili dogs just to name a couple of things. 

This week our menu plan is a bit different than normal again! Not only did we have the kids cook all day on Sunday (Mommy helped Peanut with supper) but it was also Saint Patrick's day on Monday. So, here's the menu that we're sharing over at Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday:

Sunday - YCJ made oatmeal for breakfast, ECJ made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, and Peanut made Chicken Noodle soup for supper.
Monday - Our traditional Saint Patrick's day supper of corned beef and cabbage!!! (We look forward to this every year!)
Tuesday - Taco Tuesday
Wednesday - Chicken and dumplings
Thursday - Chili dogs and baked beans
Friday - Tuna noodle casserole 
Saturday - Leftover Buffet

It was a really busy day but she looks so excited to wear
her new apron and cook dinner!!
(Completely supervised of course)

As you can see there's nothing really complicated about this menu. Monday will take a lot of prep but once it's cooking there's nothing to do until it's time to eat but enjoy the wonderful smell! Fridays we usually eat a meatless meal or a fish meal all year long, but right now it's Lent so we're a bit more intentional about it. We haven't had chicken and dumplings in several months and it's high on Daddy's favorites so we'll be enjoying that this week as well. Tuesday's menu is subject to change due to catechism class not getting out until nearly 7 PM and we've learned before that it's far too rushed to try to eat supper before hand and we'd still have to feed the children something afterwards as they'd be hungry again due to supper having been early. 

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A Surprise Menu Plan

I'm joining up today with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday with a really different menu plan for us.

Daddy has decided that he's cooking all week long. And that he's not sharing much of the plans with me. So, I only have a few days worth of what's going to be on the supper table this week.

Sunday - T-bone steaks, chicken rice, and salad (YUMMY!!)
Monday - Breakfast for dinner with turkey bacon
Tuesday - Homemade spaghetti after catechism classes for the kids
The rest of the week - the rest of the week he's left me completely in the dark! It's all a surprise for me!



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Is This Really a Menu Plan?

So, joining again this week with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday, I find myself wondering if this menu plan can even be considered a menu plan. I mean there's not a lot that we're making ourselves at home this week because it's an odd week. But, I guess it is a plan of sorts...

Sunday - Hot dogs and eggs scramble (sounds odd but it's really good)
Monday - Pizza (thanks to some awesome coupons a friend gave us)
Tuesday - Portabella mushroom raviolis
Wednesday - Fish sandwiches from Arbie's for Ash Wednesday
Thursday - Homemade turkey nachos
Friday - Eating at Grandma and Papa's house so not really sure what's for supper
Saturday - Surprise us dinner! This is one of those times where we look around, see what we have, and make a surprise dinner. We don't do this often but most of the time it works!!

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Last Menu for February!

February is drawing to a close and I for one am very happy for it. Spring is on it's way now it's just a matter of time. 

This week for my menu that I'm linking up to Organizing Junkie's Menu Plan Mondays I have the following planned:

Sunday - Thin boneless pork chops, buttered noodles, and green beans
Monday - Beef roast (in rotisserie), cheddar broccoli rice, and lettuce salad
Tuesday - Oven baked chicken legs, corn, and roasted potatoes
Wednesday - Kielbasa, chicken noodles, and green beans
Thursday - Pork roast with mushroom gravy, noodles, and asparagus 
Friday - Fish and rice for Mom and Dad, soup and sandwiches for campers/kids
Saturday - leftover buffet

Nothing fancy or special, not even any turkey this week. We're keeping it simple and relaxed.

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Tired of February Menu

OK, so what does being tired of February have to do with my menu this week? Actually, nothing at all. I'm just tired of February and needed a title of this post. The winter days are dragging on and on and it seems like February, though the shortest month of the year, lasts forever. I'm ready for winter to be over and spring to be here. At least in March spring is coming and we know it is.

Anyways, I'm rambling and this is supposed to just be my menu plan for this week that I'm sharing with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday. I have to be honest here before I start though, each week Daddy and I plan the week's menu out together. This way if there's something that he'd like to cook we know which day that is going to be.

Sunday - Mini taco bowls and tacos made with ground turkey
Monday - Breakfast for dinner with turkey bacon, eggs, pancakes, and fried potatoes
Tuesday - Baked chicken legs, turnip greens, and mac and cheese
Wednesday - Turkey bratwursts with tater tots
Thursday - Daddy's homemade meatloaf and mashed potatoes (meatloaf made with half ground beef and half ground turkey)
Friday - Salmon fillets and french fries along with a side salad
Saturday - Soup and sandwiches or left over buffet depending on what we have left over that hasn't been used up in lunches

As you can tell, nothing fancy this week. The turkey bratwursts are something new we're trying. The turkey kielbasa we tried last week was very good. We do eat far more turkey than other meats. We began doing that years ago when Daddy's heart health was in jeopardy and simply continued doing it because we now prefer it. The more turkey products that I can find, and that we like, the more we eat.

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Back to Normal Menu

Oh, it was so relaxing not to feel like I had to stick to my menu plan last week. It seems like each and every week I make a plan and most weeks I stick to it but the weeks that I don't I always feel like I should have. Last week I was tired of planning, of cooking, and of feeling those "should haves". So, when I planned last week's menu here's what I shared:

Sunday - Pancakes and turkey bacon for supper (Daddy went to a Super Bowl thing and ate pizza with the guys.)
Monday - Eat out!! - we don't do this that often really and I'm planning on enjoying it! Thank you coupon fairy!
Tuesday - Lean Steak Tacos
Wednesday - Homemade potato and cheese perogies
Thursday - Spinach Spaghetti 
Friday - The neighbor is making us Beef Tips and noodles!!
Saturday - Soup and sandwiches

And here's what our menu actually looked like:

Sunday - Pancakes and turkey bacon (Daddy ate pizza with the guys)
Monday - Eat out! (we had pizza, poor Daddy lol)
Tuesday - Lean steak tacos
Wednesday - Soup and butter bread with a small side salad
Thursday - Turkey nachos
Friday - Mac and cheese (the blue box because it was on sale) for the kids, beef tips/noodles and potatoes on the side for Mommy and Daddy (the neighbor made us dinner)
Saturday - Homemade perogies ... this is a time consuming recipe to make and I was too tired during the week to make it. And when I say time consuming I mean that it takes me about 5 hours start to finish to make about 6 dozen perogies. 

While mixing the potato part of the perogies I did manage to burn out my mixers motor... Did you know that a regular mixing "blade" will fit into the end of an electric drill? I didn't either until Saturday! Might look a little redneck, but there "aint nothin" wrong with that. Now that I've relaxed a bit and my "I don't want to cook" attitude has passed I'm ready to plan, and stick, with another menu. Plus it's my monthly big grocery shopping trip this week so I get to plan around some ads! Which is honestly one of my favorite things to do (yes, I know I'm a dork). I tend to only do one large grocery shopping trip a month, if I go to the store after that it's only for milk, bread, and perhaps cheese (I'm still wondering who eats all the cheese around here) or eggs. Our grocery budget is tight tight tight every month, so if I don't watch my spending we end up having some really strange dinners!

Sunday - Pot pies (on sale)
Monday - Beef roast, turnip greens, and a greens and celery salad (everything on sale this week in the ad!)
Tuesday - Smoked turkey noodle soup
Wednesday - Homemade potato soup 
Thursday - Breakfast for dinner with turkey bacon (eggs on sale this week)
Friday - Surf and Turf for Valentines Day!!! I was able to get everything really steeply discounted so our "romantic" dinner (only it's for all five of us lol) cost me less than $10!!! 
Saturday - Soup, salad, and bread stick dinner

The greens and celery salad I invented one night while we were camping. If you shred the tops of the greens pretty small, add some diced celery, and I usually add some diced baby carrots it makes for a really flavorful salad! Of course I like almost all kinds of greens but we like using turnip greens for this salad best. And it works well with every dressing we've tried so far! If you watch at your local market you might even be able to buy a bundle of greens for as low as $.49! I just paid $.88 for two bundles of turnip greens.

Linking up today with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday!

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Menu Plan Mania

I think we've all been there at one time in our adult lives or another. You get in the rythem of making menu plans and you attempt to stick to them, somewhere along the line you end up feeling like you just don't want to make supper. Why in the world do we need to eat so often?!?! Exasperated and retorical question that it is, it happens to all of us. This week I found myself tired of cooking, tired of planning, and at a loss for anything "new" I wanted to attempt to make.

So, I decided to plan for that! So, that's the plan I'm linking up to Organizing Junkie for Menu Monday this week.

Sunday - Pancakes and turkey bacon for supper (Daddy went to a Super Bowl thing and ate pizza with the guys.)
Monday - Eat out!! - we don't do this that often really and I'm planning on enjoying it! Thank you coupon fairy!
Tuesday - Lean Steak Tacos
Wednesday - Homemade potato and cheese perogies
Thursday - Spinach Spaghetti 
Friday - The neighbor is making us Beef Tips and noodles!!
Saturday - Soup and sandwiches 

Last week we had a lot of different green deserts, and if you didn't catch my weekly wrap up for our homeschooling the book I took information from was Green Eggs and Ham . I chose the deserts because I simply couldn't handle the green eggs nor ham (though they never state the ham is green you just kind of think of it that way). Green Goop is simply vanilla pudding with green food coloring added to it. The color and taste don't match for children so it comes as a surprise if they don't see you making it.

Next week we'll be doing some Valentines Day related deserts and items.

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Mysterious Green "Goop"

We're joining up again this Monday with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday!!

And while our menu isn't exactly crazy and out of the ordinary, our deserts this week are definitely thinking "outside of the box"!

We like to read certain books around here ... I wonder if you can guess who "he" is when you see our deserts...

Sunday - Kielbasa "tacos", kielbasa with onions/peppers/and cheese, and corn
Monday - Turkey lasagna (sorry, secret recipe ;-) ) and homemade garlic bread with "green goop" for desert
Tuesday - Pork ribs with BBQ sauce, baked potatoes, and green beans with "green jiggles" for desert
Wednesday - Beef stir fry (something beef night) with "green slime" for desert
Thursday - Baked chicken legs (half marinated in Dale's sauce half not), collard greens, and mashed potatoes with "green smoothies" for desert
Friday - Tuna casserole with "green goop" for desert
Saturday - Leftover buffet (if there's any leftovers, if not we'll eat turkey tacos)

Our lunches this week are a bit different! We had strawberry muffins for lunch on Sunday. Our regular lunches on Monday. Tuesday we're planning on having "fake" ravioli for lunch. While Wednesday is going to be a surprise because Noni is coming out at lunch time! The rest of the week after that is probably going to be our old stand by's or soup.

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Maybe We'll Stick to the Menu

For the past several weeks I've made menu plans, shared them, shopped for them and then ... utterly failed to follow them. One thing or another would crop up and I'd forget to defrost something, or something else sounded better, or life popped into my way and I just blanked on what was supposed to be for dinner. 

So, with that in mind I tried to plan this week's menu plan accordingly.

Sunday - Baked chicken (half marinated in Dales sauce and orange juice, the other half plain), homemade macaroni and cheese, and green beans with garlic butter
Monday - Turkey BLT's and cream of mushroom soup
Tuesday - Chili dogs and baked potatoes
Wednesday - Beef roast (done in the rotisserie) and oven roasted veggies
Thursday - Split Pea Soup
Friday - Fish BBQ packets and veggie packets
Saturday - Left over buffet

And of course this week we're joining up with Organizing Junkie for Menu Plan Monday!

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A Meaty Menu

For this week's Menu Monday (with Organizing Junkie) I asked the input of our five year old daughter on what she'd like for dinner this week.

So, for the most part, this is her menu plan that we'll be following for this week.

Sunday - Steak and veggies (done in the oven)
Monday - Turkey sausage, eggs, and biscuits
Tuesday - Beef roast in rotisserie, scalloped potatoes, and corn
Wednesday - Chicken legs with garlic green beans
Thursday - Leftover buffet (this is NOT our normal day to do this!) 
Friday - Homemade clam chowder (a variation of my potato soup)
Saturday - Pork roast in the rotisserie and veggies in the oven

Here is my basic recipe for potato soup (substitutions are listed in red for a lower calorie count)

• 1 large onion diced
• 8 medium potatoes pealed and diced
• 1 tsp butter (1/2 tsp extra virgin olive oil)
• 2-3 c whole milk (same amount just use 2% or FF milk)
• plain instant potato flakes
• each of the following to taste: pepper, celery salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and chicken flavoring

Peal and dice your onion. In large pot melt butter (heat olive oil). Gently saute diced onion while you peal and dice your potatoes. Consistency is NOT necessary for potato size. Remove pot from heat and add diced potatoes. Add enough water to cover. Add seasonings, at this point it's better to go with less than more, and cover pot. Bring contents to a rapid boil and then turn down to medium. Let simmer on medium for 30-45 minutes, stirring occasionally. When potato pieces can be "cut" with the side of stirring spoon it's time to add your milk. Let pot come back up to a simmer and then add potato flakes until your soup is the desired thickness, make sure to allow all potato flakes added dissolve before adding more. Taste to see if you need to add more seasonings at this point. If so then add more little by little until you reach the flavor you like. Simmer for another five to ten minutes.

* Can be served with a sprinkle of cheese if you wish (lower fat cheese shreds sometimes don't melt so well) and a sprinkle of small, precooked, chopped bacon (or turkey bacon).

** This is the first week I'll be attempting to make the clam chowder with this soup recipe as the base. I'll let you know how it turned out and what I did to change it next week.

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A Revealing Menu Plan

This week for Menu Plan Monday, hosted by Organizing Junkie, I wanted to do something different. I've been sharing our menu plans for the week for several weeks now. Many people have noticed a trend. We have a "something beef" day every week, a leftover buffet most weeks, and there's a lot of turkey and fish. This week is no exception. But, I've decided to share some of the reasons we eat like this and share quickly our typical breakfast and lunch menus.

My husband had several health issues that are now mostly under control that all cropped up several years ago now. Some of which, like his heart attacks, ended up causing us to have a more heart friendly diet. Ground turkey is much better for you than ground beef as in most cases it's leaner. He had been using salt substitute for a long time, once his heart issues were back under control he switched to the sea salt that the rest of us use. We'd switched from table salt to sea salt at the time he was using salt substitute. We eat turkey bacon because it's leaner than regular bacon. 

We eat so much fish because we like it mainly. But, partly because we've always had meatless or fish Friday's because we're Catholic and that's also how my husband was raised. 

As for the leftover buffets, those are a new-ish thing here. Not everyone here likes leftovers and often our dogs get the brunt of this or our garbage cans. It does however waste a lot of food if you're not careful. Usually I'll change something several times to use up any leftovers, but there's still some things left over. Almost every week lately Saturdays have been days that we've typically made leftover buffet days. Whatever hasn't been eaten gets picked and chosen over. One will want some soup (as an example) while another child will say, "Oh! We still have chicken? I'd like some chicken and noodles then!" It provides control over what's being eaten still, gives them a choice in what's for dinner, and allows me to use up those hated leftovers!

This week's dinner menu:

Sunday - Fish and potato "packets" done in the oven (usually these are done on the grill but the weather is yucky!)
Monday - Turkey dinner with all the trimmings! (this is about a 20 lb turkey!)
Tuesday - Hot turkey sandwiches with mashed potatoes
Wednesday - Turkey soup 
Thursday - Beef stir fry (for "something beef" night)
Friday - Tuna noodle casserole
Saturday - Leftover buffet


And once you see what are typical breakfast and lunch menus are you'll see why I haven't shared them.

Typical breakfast menu: Fruit and yogurt smoothies, cold cereal, or pancakes, eggs, and turkey bacon. Most days it's a smoothie or cold cereal because these are the children's favorites and the easiest to make.

Typical lunch menu: We're big sandwich eaters around here so often, about six times a week, we eat some form of sandwich for lunch. Peanut butter and jelly or cheese sandwiches are the usual. Sometimes there's a Nutella, or more accurately an off brand form of Nutella, sandwich but not often. That one, maybe two, day a week that we don't eat sandwiches for lunch it's usually some form of soup or leftovers from the night before. Fruits and veggies are added in at lunch time, sometimes some string cheese.

Most of the day the campers drink water but at dinner it's always milk and often with breakfast it's some kind of juice. Daddy and I most often drink coffee, yes, all day long.

There's absolutely nothing special about what we eat. In the coming weeks you'll notice a lot more soups than we've previously eaten. This time of year soups are a staple in our home. We'll eat them for lunch and dinner almost every day. Some bread and maybe a salad on the side and it's a full meal. Also, eating soups helped both my husband and I loose weight a few years ago.

Quick and easy Fish and potato "packets" (best done on a grill but works in the oven):

• any kind of white fish, enough to feed your family
• sliced potatoes, skin on or off
• diced onions
• sliced mushrooms, fresh or canned
• garlic powder to taste
• Mrs. Dash onion and herbs, to taste
• Dale's sauce or soy sauce, also to taste
• a couple tsp butter or margarine
• tin foil

This is super easy and only takes minutes to prepare. If doing this on the grill pre-heat your grill to about med-high heat, in the oven you need 375 degrees F. Lay out a decent sized piece of tin foil. On top place your potatoes, onions, and mushrooms. Season and then gently toss. Add 1-3 tsp of butter, your choice. Roll tin foil up to make a packet (if you've done this camping the same theory applies). Then fold this packet into another packet to fully seal and make sure that your potatoes don't stick to the tin foil (too much). Place in preheated oven, or on grill and close. Let cook for about an hour on the bottom rack. Next make the same packets with your fish. When the hour passes for the potatoes flip the packet of potatoes over and put the packet of fish (or two packets if making a larger amount) on the top shelf in the middle of the oven. Remember to place packets on a cookie sheet or something similar in case of dripping juices. Cook both about 20 minutes, flipping the fish halfway through. Cooking time for fish may vary depending on size of packets and type of fish. 

French fries were made for Peanut

fish

potatoes

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Menu Plan for the Last Week of December 2013

In just a few days it'll be 2014! Boy, how time flew this year and there was a ton of things that happened! I'll be posting a Year in Review on Wednesday (New Year's Day) about everything.

But, for now, it's time for Menu Monday with Organizing Junkie!!!

Sunday - Lasagna (an extra one I prepared Christmas Eve)
Monday - Rotisarie Chicken and roasted veggies
Tuesday - Beef Stir Fry 
Wednesday - Swedish Meatballs (made with a mixture of ground turkey and ground pork)
Thursday - Smoked Turkey legs, fried potatoes, and corn
Friday - Talapia fish "packets" on the grill with veggies
Saturday - Left over buffet


Nothing really fancy and a couple things that we don't eat often. But, the idea here is for quick meals with little prep to make this next week as smooth as possible.

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Preparing for Christmas Menus

Well, it's less than two weeks until Christmas and I'm very excited! Not only is it Christmas but this means a week off of our homeschooling (though I'm not sure who's more excited by this my children or myself) and a complete week off of blogging for me. I've promised my children that I will not blog even once from December 22 through December 28! I'm allowed to post a few updates, videos, or pictures on the Facebook page but that's it!

So ... this week I'm typing up two weeks worth of menus instead of just one.

Week of Dec. 15th:

Sunday - B - Triple Chocolate Breakfast Muffins. L - Leftover Homemade Chicken Soup. D - Beef roast, mashed potatoes, and corn.
Monday -  Pork roast with roasted veggies and a side salad
Tuesday -  Leftover Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup and a side salad
Wednesday -  Pulled pork sandwiches made out of leftover pork roast from Monday night.
Thursday - Noni will be here. Subs night.
Friday - Grilled fish and veggie "packets" (yes, even in the snow) and a side salad
Saturday - Leftover Buffet/soup and sandwiches


Week of Dec. 22nd:

Sunday - Breakfast for dinner: pancakes, eggs, turkey bacon, biscuits, and turkey sausage
Monday - "something beef" night
Tuesday - B - French toast and turkey bacon. L - Soup and sandwiches. D - Rotisserie chicken and roasted veggies. Prep - Make lasagnas for Grandma's house and Noni's work for Christmas day.
Wednesday - B - Triple Chocolate Breakfast Muffins. L - build your own sandwich at Grandma's house. D - Christmas dinner at Grandma's house
Thursday - Christmas leftovers
Friday - Tuna Casserole
Saturday - Quesadillas

I'm not real sure about that last Saturday, we may change our minds by then. But, this is pretty much how it's going to be. And yes, I'll be making two full sized homemade lasagnas on Christmas Eve. One we'll be taking to Grandma's house for the whole family to enjoy for Christmas dinner, the other we'll be dropping off at Noni's work. She's an RN who has to work Christmas night and she and the other ladies on her floor will be really surprised at our bringing dinner to them.

I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas! I'll see you again for Menu Monday on December 30th. If you want to catch quick peaks of us next week you'll have to come check us out on Facebook here.

Linking up this Monday (as every Monday) with Organizing Junkie .

* Yes, that's two buttons for the same place... One for the last week of fall (Dec. 15th) and one for Christmas week (Dec. 22nd).