Two more sleeps til Christmas! I’m ok with that. I don’t have a busy day tomorrow (morning and evening church) but Monday I have a few things to do.
But let’s start with yesterday. It was a tough day to get through. It actually started Thursday evening with a few conversations that took a turn that I didn’t expect. Wasn’t sure how to sort that all out. But I got into my day Friday by doing a load of laundry – and let it wash while I prepped the ham and got it baking in the oven. When I came down to change the load to the dryer I realized that the laundry room drain had backed up – basically flooded the room – and left a mess behind. Everything was soaked and filthy and smelly.
It took most of the morning to get that cleaned up, but the tough thing was I couldn’t wash all the rags and towels I used to do that. I knew I would have Autmn and Cam all day so I had to put that task aside until today (which I handled – more later!).
While I was waiting for Autmn to call I had some work papers to print out. The printer was being stubborn and kept shutting off and jamming. It took me over half an hour to print 3 pages. I had a few other things to do that didn’t go on track, but sort of expected that because once my focus was broken everything seemed to go awry.
I picked up Autmn, Cameron and Autmn’s youngest sister Josie and they spent the day. Cameron was good and was happy to see his Grammy. We did spend some quality time together, but Josie likes playing with him, too, so I had to share. Imagine that! But having my family here helped things, anyway.
Ron photo bombing in the background.
Ron was in town and called to see if Autmn and Cameron would be here, and decided to pop over and see them. So we had a busy day shuffling food and people and TV shows. It was a pretty nice afternoon and evening. I was certainly ready for a good night’s sleep.
This morning I mixed up bread and it’s now rising in loaf pans. I was planning on going to the laundromat but I had several offers of washers to do the dirty towels. I didn’t want to put that mess in someone’s washer — but Nate has the rescue and has alot worse to wash than I had. So he offered and I accepted. I took my two loads down there and he said they would just do it and drop it off later.
I stopped at Shop and Save to get the dough for ham rolls, and found their Christmas/winter things on sale. I got a few little things that were just pennies. Nice. Then about 5pm Nate returned my towels, rags, and sheets, dry and folded! I could be spoiled!
So I cut up the ham from yesterday and made ham and cheese rolls, then I tried again with the chocolate drizzled popcorn. It turned out better but I am going to get white chocolate – it was really good that way. It’s now 7pm and I’m hoping that’s all I need to do for the day. Today was easier but I was on my feet all day, which I generally am not. I’ll watch a Hallmark movie, write in my journal, read devotions, and that will be it. I sampled the popcorn and the ham rolls so I won’t need supper.
When I was at Nate’s I noticed that Jen’s cat plaque was sticky from the package tape. I brought it home and worked on it and got it all cleaned up like new! It was the least I could do for clean laundry.
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TOMORROW December 24th is:
National Eggnog Day; Christmas Eve.
No eggnog for me! And I am going to Kathy’s after church for a late supper. My job is to take the shrimp ring! Already purchased and tucked in the freezer – I will defrost it after church… Have a blessed celebration! God bless..
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