Hello and happy Monday Friends ~
First of all, Happy Veteran's Day to all who serve our country. Wishing them many blessings!🙏🏻 In my world it includes my Brother Steven(whom is now retired after more than 20 years of service and runs a team in conservation corps kind of work in our area now) and to my cousin Rollie who is still active in the Air Force as a F16 pilot. He is currently stationed with his family in Italy.
my brother was a combat medic in the green berets (in green) and Rollie in Air Force blue
my bro and SIL, Jill
Look how young my babies are in this pic ☺️
Then Saturday Matt & I were very productive cleaning out the shed in back of our home. It was so needed! So much old stuff in there. We pulled out everything. Put into garbage and keep piles. Some things we are holding onto until Spring and then we'll put out front as free for anyone to take. But we cleaned off shelves, Matt swept it all out and reorganized it all. Then we had tons of room to put away the deck furniture and pots and now it's all bare for the season ahead. Such a great job done! Then we went to church Saturday night and out for dinner with the C's and then back to our house to play cards.
Then Sunday we let be a relaxing day. We have been going so much, that even though there are more home jobs to do...we both agreed we needed a veg out day. So we slept in. Watched football and movies and just soaked up the relaxation. Our Packers were on a bye so we didn't get to watch them.
I also wanted to share that I finally finished the big trip post yesterday (our Paris and QM2 trip). If you want to go back and check it out. I share pics, info, and even a croissant recipe! We feel so blessed to have been a part of such an amazing trip with our family. It's kind of funny because it was Matt and all of us chicks. Lol As he lovingly referred to it all trip: "Matt and his Golden Girls" 😁 💗
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
I had a treat today. We had grabbed some donuts over the weekend and I had a leftover one this AM with a yummy hot coffee with cinnamon hazelnut creamer. Sometimes you have to indulge in order to keep on track ultimately, right? 😋
ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:
order Christmas cards, home projects, hair appt, lunch with gf's, do paperwork with an Aunt, errands, hospice work
THINKING ABOUT:
How this is right around the corner! But it's going to look different this year with only one kiddo here (Annie will be down south yet) and my Bro and SIL may need to do different plans this year - so may only be my Mom here too. A very quiet cozy Thanksgiving. Still look forward to the peace and blessing of family...large or small. And the best meal of the year worth the days of work! :) Just may cut some of the amounts this year. 😉
I've also been talking to Matt about wanting to decorate for Christmas earlier this year. I usually wait until after Thanksgiving, but it's so late this year. And it's always a lot of work (labor of love) because of all I like to do. So we may dive into that in only a week or so!
AS I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE
It's bright, breezy and sunny. I can hear the humidifier as we finally got that running this weekend. The house gets so dry this time of year. I'm working on my to-do list for the house - for this week and cleaning projects before the holidays. I've also been updating my Christmas gift app as I think of gifts I want to add for folks.
CURRENTLY READING
I haven't been reading as much - other than cookbooks and some holiday magazines because I've been obsessed with my coloring app on my ipad mini at the moment.
There are many pages of different categories. As you can see - I especially love to color interiors and nature ones.
ON THE TV TODAY:
Dancing with the Stars, Survivor, Great British Bake Off, Jeopardy, Golden Bachelorette, Ghosts, Shark Tank, Grey's Anatomy, Love is Blind, Holiday Baking Championship, Walking Dead catch up
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - leftovers?
TUESDAY - French onion soup, chef salad
WEDNESDAY - BLT's, sweet potato fries, veggies + protein dip
THURSDAY - slow cooker pork fajitas
FRIDAY - out for dinner
*might bake a new bread recipe for butterscotch pumpkin bread made with browned butter - yum!
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
ipad coloring, crafting, holiday planning, lunch with friends
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
FROM THE CAMERA:
This furniture is made to stay out but we put it up against the house to protect it and then we don't see it when we look out at the view of the bay. We sat and took a break on it before we put it away though - we had worked up a sweat!
Not many leaves left on the trees - just a little bit of color hanging on. Birds are confused because we need to get birdseed so nothing is in there yet, but they kept visiting anyway
cozy relaxation time included nap time for Bubba and Daddy 💗