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October 27th, 2019

10/27/2019

Sunday
Pot Roast with carrots, potatoes, add white rice as a side dish

Monday
Spaghetti and meatballs with toss salad

Tuesday
Taco Tuesday

Wednesday
Baked cod with Uncle Bens wild rice

Thursday
One Pot Lasagna

Friday
PF Change Sweet and Sour Chicken, Spring Rolls, Vegetable Fried Rice

Saturday
Cheese quesadillas with Knoor Sides (Spanish Rice Flavor)

This Week's Meal Plan

10/20/2019

Preparing for the Holidays and New Decade

10/17/2019

The best planning starts early, planning for the holidays and planning for the upcoming year 2020.

We are halfway thru October and planning for the holidays and the upcoming year starts now.

What you should be planning for the holidays, first and foremost is your budget, what is the total amount of money you are able to spend for the holidays? Don’t go into debt for the holidays; so many people do this, please don’t max out your credit cards buying gifts. Determine now how much you can afford for holiday gifts.

Once you have determined your budget, list who you will buy for and what type of gift you are buying.
When planning for the holidays consider everything, gifts, decorations, holiday menu, travel, holiday parties.

The No Stress This Holiday Guide is a complete guide to assist you in planning your holiday season; it only cost $8 once you have purchased and started using the No Stress This Holiday Guide you save more than $8 (its like getting the No Stress Holiday Guide for free).

In 69 days a new decade will be upon and let’s start planning now for the new year and decade. The Living on Purpose Matrix Planner has 2019 and 2020 calendar and a blank calendar to (in case you want to be a super planner and plan for 2021).

The purpose of the Living on Purpose Matrix Planner is to live on purpose; no unnecessary events, tasks, time consuming tasks. Things don’t just happen; they have to be planned. The goal of this planner is document and focus on things (tasks, events, etc.) that are for your purpose, what you want to do in life.

The Living on Purpose Matrix Planner helps you organize your life, business and school.

Once you have defined your goals; and purchased The Living on Purpose Matrix Planner utilize it to the fullest. This unique planner is designed so that you can personalized it to fit you. Utilize the notes page in this planner to outline your thoughts and organize your plan, the goals sheet were you document your goals. There is so much to the Living on Purpose Matrix Planner, purchase today for instant download to your device and get to planning and organization today.

This Week's Meal Plan

10/13/2019

Sunday
Bake Ziti with sausage

Monday
Taco Crescent Ring

Tuesday
Ham, Lima Bean Fried Rice

Wednesday
One pot spaghetti

Thursday
Easy Slow Cooker Pork

Friday
Fried whiting with fries

Saturday
Quiche Lorraine with toss salad

Favorite Things

10/10/2019

Disclaimer: This post has affiliate links, which basically means if you purchase, I will receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Rowena’ Christmas List

The most wonderful time of the year! The holiday season is ALMOST upon us and I love this season, I truly love giving and I love receiving too; below is my Christmas List, most times I buy for myself for Christmas and sometimes my children will surprise me with an item that was on my Christmas List.

Listed below is my list:

Yes, I am an Alex Cross FAN!! I think I need the electronic version so I can keep up and read these on a regular basis. However, there is something special about having an actual book in your hand.

Don't like the cover but want the book :-)

Love this cookware

This will go nicely in one of my hallways

These are decorative and yet they are reminders

Oh, so beautiful

I have been wanting this for the longest, however, I didn't know how it works, until about 3 weeks ago and now that I know, I really want one of these....

There is a post I did when which is entitled You Can Have What You Want, you can view ithere; the post contains information on how to hear from God and how to have your Godly dreams and desires met. Even thou I wrote this post I must practice this principle EVERYDAY, because even after all this time I have yet to reach the 300 mark (go figure).

Based on that post below are my dream items:

Rowena’s Dream 2019 Christmas List

Midnight blue Range Rover, such a cool vehicle with cool features
Skiing in Vermont with a cabin (1-week vacation 12/23 – 12/30)

Planning A Community Event

10/8/2019

On a weekly and annual basis our church does a gigantic distribution of food, clothing and toys. We distribute on a weekly basis to over a hundred people and on annual basis we distribute clothes to people in shelters as well as for Thanksgiving we distribute Thanksgiving Basket complete with turkey and all the fixings and for Christmas we have distribute toys to over 200 children and during the toy distribution we put on a Christmas presentation that includes games and additional prizes. This takes time and superb organization skills to successfully pull off on a regular basis.

Therefore, organization skills are a must, because of the weekly, monthly and yearly paperwork, inventory, which must be maintained and, especially for our weekly distribution. This is crucial for corporate donations; most funders want documentation of the event they have funded.

Volunteers and workers must be organized as well as event tasks should be created and organized, or you will have too many or not enough volunteers. This will allow you to match event tasks with the appropriate volunteers. Ideally you want to match an adequate volunteer to the appropriate event task.
Being a non-profit organization, we request donations from outside companies/organization, and we must adhere to the guidelines that these organizations have in place for us to receive donations.

The best way to put together an event with a large distribution is to:

Determine who will receive the donations (food, clothing), this is basically the goal of the event.
Create a budget, this will let you know how much money it will take to host this event.
How will you get the information from the people who will receive the donations (registration form, sign in sheet)
How will the donations will be distributed to the people? (volunteers)
Who will perform the administrative tasks? (paid staff or volunteers or both).
Where will inventory be stored?
Who will distribute the donated items, what is the game plan for distributing those items?

There is so much to consider when planning a community event, however it is so rewarding to bring a community together either to help or unify or both. One of these should be the focus of your community event.

These are just the very bare basics for putting together a community distribution; other things to consider are:

Once you have determined your goal, next thing to do is outline how you want the event to flow; be as creative as possible, during this process don’t be too concerned about cost, once you create your budget, you will know what you can afford for your event. This process will also help you to determine your planning process for the event.

The planning process should include logistics such as:

Location of the Community Event, should the community event require permits?

How will the people receive the donated items, should there be a registration, fee or free?

Where will the donated items be stored and distributed from, do you need a permit if it’s not held at your facility.

How many volunteers will you need?

How many people can be served at the community event?

There are still many things to considered for a community event, the best way to stay organized is to utilize an event planning checklist.

I have created an event planning checklist and its FREE in the prints section of my website. Feel free to download at any time and save to your laptop or computer or tablet. This event planning checklist will help you put a timeline with the event tasks that have to be completed before and after the event.

This blog post will help you get started with planning your community event and any other event.

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