Mothering Many

I realize I still need to post my menu for the week, and I will. I haven’t decided on it yet, because I am still thinking about recipes. I don’t want to have to go shopping, so I need to plan around what I already have here at home. I’ve got plenty of pasta, and also chicken.

Do you ever get stumped on what to cook? Right now, I am so sleepy I can barely think, and food is just back in the corner of my mind, since I am not hungry. Okay, lets do it, so I can go nap!

Monday: frozen chicken parmesan, salad
Tuesday: beans with rice, sausage
Wednesday: shrimp scampi –I keep saying I am going to make this, and really I am. Maybe even this week!
Thursday: reruns
Friday: homemade hotwings with pizza from Wal-Mart

That’s the menu, subject to change if I look at it later and say “what was I thinking!!??!!” We all have days like that, and this just might be one of mine.

I did indeed write the lesson plans for Country over the weekend, as I said I was going to do. And that led to thoughts of higher ed, as it tends to do. It’s an awesome responsibility to prepare my kids for whatever studies they wish to pursue after high school. I want them to be able to get into the school of their choice (as long as it’s within daily driving distance, LOL), and I don’t want them saddled with overwhelming debt, either.

The simple fact is that my kids will have to work for college, just like DH and I did. One of the things I’ll have to have a few serious conversations with them about is student loan consolidation, and how choosing the right student loan consolidation program can make or break them financially after they get out of college.

I’m not sure all of my children will go to college. I imagine a couple of them at least will apprentice in fields that do not require advanced degrees. But if they do go, I want them to choose wisely, so they don’t find themselves in the situation I was in: under a mountain of debt, needing a federal student loan consolidation to save my hiney.