Feeling Domestic

Having a beautiful home with appropriate kitchen and storage space makes me realize I can be domestic and not resent it! It feels so wonderful having a clean kitchen (not that it's always clean..)! Not only do I do dishes on a regular basis but I'm also cleaning the counter tops and stove tops and all those other clean kitchen chores that in the past didn't happen very often! Go me. What can I say, I'm finally becoming a real adult.

This morning while play around on pinterest I came across a link where this lady plans out meals for dinner for the entire month. This is just crazy to me! Talk about organization! I can kinda wrap my head around planning week to week - but a month! Wowza. I've never planned an entire week of dinners ahead of time, and as a result we typically eat out far too often!

Today I planned out dinners for the next few nights! Granted Saturday night I wrote down nothing as we will be going out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo... baby steps!

In addition to having Skyline one night I'm trying these 4 new recipes!

-Stuffed French Onion Soup Sliders - I will be making regular size burgers because I couldn't find tiny buns!
-Crockpot BBQ Chicken
-Slow Cooker Korean Beef Tacos
-Chicken Marsala

Looks good right?! I'll let you know how they turn out!

housewife knowledge??

HAHAHA I laugh at that! I'm such a terrible housewife! Maybe when husband actually lives here I'll be better!! Anyway - I read this article and wanted to share!

Do you have issues with filmy dishes? I DO!!! It is so obnoxious!! The last time I had people over (well last time and the first and only time..) for dinner I was so super careful to count out the dishes and rewash all of them before the guests came over! I promise my dishes are clean (when I actually get to cleaning them!) but they come out looking GROSS! I totally stole the above picture from here. But mine come out of the dishwasher with the same nastiness!!

Apparently it's an issue with phosphates being removed from our dish detergent, or something. These bloggers suggest citric acid or a product called Lemi Shine to mix with regular detergent!

I've totally added Lemi Shine to my shopping list!

Also, Mom-in-law tells me that if you get rings in your glass (mine are from leaving glasses on the windowsill so the cats can drink water from them = high maintenance) denture cleaner works too! I have a big stack from her that I have yet to use, so I'll report back on that as well! This Lemi Shine stuff seems to be an all purpose solve-it though if it'll fix my glasses and dishes!

Do you have any good housewife tricks to share??