Grandma’s Cornbread and Eggs in a Skillet

Being raised in a household with my grandparents and seeing my great-grandparents on both sides frequently, I was introduced to a host of southern cooking. Tonight I made one of the recipes that I remembered from childhood. I don’t have a name for it, so I called it Cornbread and Eggs in a Skillet.

I had half a cake of leftover cornbread from dinner last night. I made it according to package directions on my Martha White Self-Rising Corn Meal. I stored it over night in a plastic zipper bag, so I jut had to crumble it in the bag tonight. Here’s the list of ingredients and some pictures. I cook often in my iron skillet.

 

Cornbread and Eggs in a Skillet

1/2 cake of leftover cornbread (or make a fresh cake of cornbread)

2 tablespoons butter

4 or 5 eggs (beaten)

 

Directions:

  • Crumble cornbread in a plastic bag (keeps the mess down)
  • Put iron skillet on the stove top on medium heat and melt the butter
  • Once the butter is melted, add the crumbled cornbread and stir
  • Add beaten eggs to the cornbread and cook over medium heat until eggs are cooked thoroughly
  • Serve

 

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I served this with fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden and a big pot of BBQ chicken cooked in the slow cooker all afternoon.

 

Siggie - Tami Fox

Fantastic Friday – Getting Organized

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

 

How are you doing with your morning, afternoon, and evening routines? I have a lot of freedom with my time by keeping my routines going. My routines have been a big help in getting through difficult times. The routines were what we could count on when everything else around us seemed chaotic.

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.

School:

  • How are you doing with getting ready for the school year? We are slowly adding back some math practice, and we have been reading this summer.

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Declutter your medicine cabinet. Find a safe way to dispose of expired medications.

Family Fun: Have a water activity today, and think about planning a walk and picnic at a park for family fun day on Saturday.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things at your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

Siggie - Tami Fox

Tackle It Thursday – Getting Organized

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

 

Pick something to declutter today that you have been avoiding. Yes, I know you have something you have been putting off. Maybe it’s a stack of bills or paperwork. Maybe it’s laundry piled in the floor or on your bed. Maybe it’s a box or bag that needs to be donated, and you can’t bring yourself to let it go. Today’s the day! Let’s tackle it and move on!

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.

School:

  • Put away the school supplies you bought yesterday.Don’t let them sit around in the bag you brought them home in.

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Master Bath: Wipe down the shower walls and doors, if you have one.
  • Declutter in another room of your choice for 15 minutes. If you have a junk room, use this as an opportunity to do some decluttering in there.

Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. Stop for ice cream or slushies.

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things at your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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Siggie - Tami Fox

Work It Wednesday – Getting Organized

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

 

Wednesday is a busy day with routines and errands. Just do your morning routine quickly, so you can get out and have fun and do your errands.

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.

School:

  • Review your list for school supplies today. Many stores have already started back-to-school sales. Don’t just buy things because they are on sale. Buy what you need.

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Declutter old shampoos/body wash.
  • Errand day: Make your plan for grocery shopping and errands. Pack water bottles and snacks for everyone. Pack up your library books that need to be turned in.

Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. Stop for ice cream or slushies.

 

When you get home from doing errands, have everyone work together to unload and put away everything.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things at your launch pad
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

Siggie - Tami Fox

Fruits of the Spirit – Gentleness

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Over the years I have heard many sermons on the Fruits of the Spirit. I have done Bible studies on the Fruits of the Spirit. This weekend I read an article online about Gentleness. It touched me, and I started making some notes.

Galations 5:33-23 lists the Fruits of the Spirit.

  • Love
  • Joy
  • Peace
  • Longsuffering
  • Gentleness
  • Goodness
  • Faith
  • Meekness
  • Temperance

Gentleness is not weakness.

Gentleness is a spiritual strength.

Gentleness shows great self-control.

Gentleness is not selfish.

Gentleness is not quick to anger.

Gentleness shows patience.

Gentleness shows restraint.

 

In our relationships with our spouse, children, parents, siblings, and friends, do we show the Fruits of the Spirit?

 

Do we show them love even when they are unlovable?

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Do we show joy to them when things are tough?

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Do we have peace in our lives even when it feels chaotic all around us?

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Are we longsuffering, especially with those who live in the same house as us?

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Are we gentle with those we love?

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How do we show goodness to those around us? What is it to be good?

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What is faith? How do we show it to others? (Hebrews 11:1)

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Meekness is not weakness. How are we showing meekness?

How can we demonstrate meekness to those around us?

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I want to expound on all of these attributes sometime soon.

Siggie - Tami Fox

Terrific Tuesday – Getting Organized

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

 

Let’s start the day off on a positive note and tell ourselves it is going to be a terrific Tuesday. Even if you are having a tough day, you attitude can make it better or worse.

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
  • Clean out your refrigerator. Toss the science experiments.

School:

  • Check out the sales loss leaders for school supplies. Make a list since you will be out doing your grocery shopping tomorrow.

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Write up a menu plan for the next 7 days. Check your pantry and freezer and make a grocery list. This habit will save you time and money. Try out some new recipes with the slow cooker. It will save you time once you start back to your school schedule.
  • Zone Focus: Declutter your master bathroom. Check drawers and/or shelves. List items you are running low on. Have a hot spot fire drill in one other room. Send your children on a mission to gather up 27 things to drop off as a donation tomorrow while you are out.

Family Fun: Have an afternoon movie and snack. It’s hot outside, and it’s a good day to stay inside and cool.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Decide on a place in your house where you can put things for the next day. The FlyLady calls this your Launch Pad. It is usually close to your main entry of the house. You are going to use this every night.
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

Siggie - Tami Fox

Menu Planning – Getting Organized

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Today I want to share some tips on menu planning. Some of you struggle in this area, and for years, I did not do a good job with menu planning. As my life got busier and I had more children, I knew I had to get serious about menu planning. It truly does save me time and money to menu plan. I have done my menu planning different ways and shopped on different days of the week, but I have a routine now that works for my family.

On Friday night, I sit down and start a menu plan for our evening meal. Some weeks, I will plan lunch and breakfast, too. Last fall, I planned meals for each of the 50 United States. So I have done some major menu planning, too. After I plan my weekly menu, I check my freezer and pantry to see what I have on hand. Then I start my grocery list. I shop on Saturday mornings or afternoons depending on our plans for the day.

Here’s a sample of my weekly menu plan for this week.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
B – Eggs and Bacon B – Cereal B – Waffles and Bacon B – Eggs and Bacon B – Cereal B – Waffles and Bacon B – Eggs and Bacon
L – Pizza L – Sandwiches L – Leftovers or Sandwiches L – Leftovers or Sandwiches L – Leftovers or Sandwiches L – Leftovers or Sandwiches L – Leftovers or Sandwiches
D – Hamburgers D – Spaghetti and Salad with Garlic Bread D – Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli, Salad, Bread D – Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Breast, Salad, Bread D – Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken, Salad, Bread D – Slow Cooker Jambalaya, Rice, Salad, and Bread D – Rotisserie Chicken, Salad, Bread

 

Everyone in the family helps with meal prep and clean up. The boys also help me cook and are responsible for getting their lunch. Some days they also fix their own breakfast. I keep fruit and nuts on hand for snacks because growing boys tend to want to eat all the time. I am using freezer meals that I prepared last month for the slow cooker meals. I will have minimal prep this week. I will put out a freezer bag from the freezer to thee refrigerator each night. I have written down 4 of the freezer meals this week. I may not pick out the corresponding bag to each day of the week, but I will use 4 different meals for the slow cooker this week.

Tell me how you menu plan and what works for you.

Siggie - Tami Fox

Getting Organized Week 7 Day 1

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

How did you do last week with the daily blog posts? I hope you are encouraged and seeing some small changes to your habits. If you have not been following the blog this summer, I have organized all of the posts on one page. Just start small. It is ok if you start on week 1 day 1. I have tasks set up to help you build routines in your home and get ready for your homeschool year.

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.

 

Weekly Home Blessing Hour:

 

(This is new this week. Spend one hour or less with your children helping you with your Weekly Home Blessing Hour.)

 

I want you to pick one day a week to do your Home Blessings. It does not matter which day it is, but it cannot be Saturday or Sunday. I do my Weekly Home Blessings on Monday morning, and my boys help me. If you get into the routine of doing this weekly now, it will be easier to continue it once you start back to school.

 

You will spend 10 minutes or less on each activity. The one that takes the longest is washing and drying the sheets. If you have a large family, you may have to assign each person a day of the week to wash bedding. Also, you will save time if you have a second set of sheets for each bed. When you strip off the sheets to wash, you put the second set on the bed immediately.

 

In my book, Giving Your Children Wings, I write about how my weekly schedule works. If you want to have something in writing to help you organize your home and homeschool, I have a homeschool package deal for you on my website.
7 Parts of the Weekly Home Blessing Hour from The FlyLady:

 

  • Quick Dust
  • Sweep/Mop
  • Purge Magazines or Paper Clutter
  • Change Bedding
  • Empty Trash
  • Clean Windows/Mirrors
  • Vacuum

 

School:

  • Check your list of items that have come in from your orders. Review your list of items needed, Order anything additional that you might need.

 

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Declutter your main bathroom. Check drawers and/or shelves. List items you are running low on. Have a hot spot fire drill in one other room. Send your children on a mission to throw away any trash they find.

 

Family Fun: Plan a water activity at home. Water balloons are a favorite at our house.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Decide on a place in your house where you can put things for the next day. The FlyLady calls this your Launch Pad. It is usually close to your main entry of the house. You are going to use this every night.
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

I post a new post each morning during the week at www.TamiFox.net. I will also send out a short email with these each morning.

Siggie - Tami Fox

Getting Organized Week 6 Day 5

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We are wrapping up the last day of the week with Day 5 of Week 6 in the Getting Organized in your home and homeschool series. Please email me and tell me what you think of this series. Is it helping you?

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.

 

School:

  • Have you thought about supplemental activities for the school year? You may want to look into co-ops or other opportunities for your children during the school year. My family has participated in weekly co-ops, and we enjoyed doing educational activities with others. We have also participated in our local 4-H clubs. You might want to look into that for your family.

 

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Spend 15 minutes decluttering your kitchen counters. It will take daily practice to keep the hot spots on your counters tamed.

 

Family Fun: Go on a picnic. If you can’t go out for a picnic, then have one at home. Build a fort or set up a tent outside. Do something different that you have not done this summer.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things on your launch pad for the next day.
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

Enjoy your week-end! Plan a family activity for Saturday and rest on Sunday.

Siggie - Tami Fox

Getting Organized Week 6 Day 4

Getting Organized this Summer:
In your home and homeschool

 

Welcome to Day 4 of Week 6 in the Getting Organized in your home and homeschool series. I hope you are encouraged and seeing some small changes to your habits. I have tasks set up to help you build routines in your home and get ready for your homeschool year.  If you are not doing the fun activities that I am suggesting, please do something fun with your children every day. It is a part of rewarding them for helping you around the house, and it builds good family relationships, too. As moms, we get caught up in doing things around the house, and we forget that we need to have fun with our children, too.

 

Set your timer for 15 minutes for the Home Assignment and 15 minutes for the School Assignment

 

Home:

  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting

 

School:

  • Think about how you want to celebrate the first day of school and do any pre-planning that you need for this. You might want to get some props to do First Day of School pictures. You might want to go on a picnic or out to breakfast. Think of some way to commemorate the first day of school that will be fun for you and your children.

 

Afternoon Routine:

  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
  • Zone Focus: Spend 15 minutes decluttering your kitchen counters. It will take daily practice to keep the hot spots on your counters tamed.

 

Family Fun: Plan a water activity either at home or go somewhere for some fun water fun with your children.

 

Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 

  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Put things on your launch pad for the next day.
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

 

I know you can get these routines in place before you start off your school year. Once these become a habit, you will have so much more freedom from cleaning your house. You will be used to doing it in small steps versus big cleaning projects.

Siggie - Tami Fox