Rebecca's visit from "Jerry" and long weekend to-do list

Happy Saturday everyone! How's life where you are? Anything fun going on today? 

Here the sun is shining and it looks like it will be a good day! Thank you everyone for the suggestions for easy, crockpot meals yesterday. If anyone has any more to share please share in the comments!! 

Rebecca has had a couple of things happen since she came home from school yesterday. She got her first COVID vaccination shot late afternoon yesterday. Other than a sore arm, she hasn't had any side effects from it. 

She also had a very early morning visitor this morning. She said she awoke around 4AM to GusGus, the cat, chasing something around her room. She realized it was a huge praying mantis! She said she got the cat, went into the bathroom and contemplated her next step. She decided not to wake her dad or I and went back to bed trying to keep the cat from chasing it. This morning, she told me that it was in her room above her clock. I took an empty container and trapped it and took it outside to let it go. She nicknamed it "Jerry." LOL I told her next time, she could wake me up. We think it got in her room from where her window was opened because of the window air conditioner being there. (Her window pulls up and we think it crawled up through the opening). We have since plugged all holes with rolled up towels to help prevent "Jerry" from returning. I told her at least it wasn't a bat or something like that! There is always something going on around here! LOL 

Speaking of things going on, let's see what else is on my to-do list for this long weekend:

• Menu plan for this week
• Grocery list for Sunday
• Laundry
• Dinner with friends tonight (Yay for NOT having to cook!)
• Sweep downstairs, stairs, and upstairs
• Get boys to clean their room
• Get Rebecca to clean her room
• Pull weeds in back flowerbed
• Find time to do something relaxing--ie. coloring, art of some kind, etc. 
• Exercise 2 times including arm weight workout
• Mass on Sunday 

What's on your to-do list this weekend? Any easy, fast recipes to share? Any Crockpot recipes to share? Have you ever been awoken by a flying insect or anything else? 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!