HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY
Hello Friends!
Sorry I'm getting to this late today. It's been so wonderful having both of my kiddos around...and enjoying time with them. However, I've also been nursing a patient. My poor Annie got covid. A gal on the hockey team had it and it spread like wild fire and quite a few players got it too. My Mom and step Dad and Bro and SIL were just showing up for Christmas Eve brunch when Annie came up to me and told me she had a sore throat. I immediately had her mask and she spent the rest of the time away from all of us. She has now been really sick and I bring her in tomorrow for testing and I have no doubt she has it. I'm so glad she's vaccinated, as she's pretty miserable....but I bet it would be a lot worse if she hadn't been. So we didn't get together for anymore gatherings and had to just hand over my Dad and step Mom's gifts and the kids weren't able to go with their Dad. So we have just been lounging and cozy. Eating lots of holiday yummy. And Annie has been staying in her room and doing lots of resting. I wear a mask when I bring her anything and she wears a mask if she needs to go anywhere in the house. I've been lysoling everything too! Lol Aaron and I have continued to be fine. Darn covid anyways!! Ugh!
I hope you all had a healthier Christmas. And have been able to have a wonderful and peaceful time with those you love. 🌟
But I have a few photos from our one gathering that still felt like Christmas minus poor Annie. You can see them below. As well as my Christmas gift from Matt. It blew me away. He is so thoughtful and kind and such an amazing friend already. He's helping me heal lots of things and I think stealing my heart in the process. ♥️
I feel so bad that he's been having a hard time getting home today. It's been blizzarding in a lot of our area. He was in AZ for Christmas and got stuck after one flight and only part way home. Then his flight today got canceled too! He finally had to rent a shuttle to drive him the rest of the way home. Poor Guy!
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
yogurt, coffee
ON MY TO DO LIST:
mainly to nurse my Annie, some hospice work from home, usual domestic goddess duties - I think Aaron is loving Mom's home cooking and laundry service 😉
AS I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE
Overall tidy, but I haven't been knocking myself out. Lol And I need to do another load of dishes before I start dinner. It looks pretty as it's getting dark now that it's late in the day and I have the tree on and all the lights that come on with timers glowing. I'm listening to cool guitar music Matt turned me on to recently. I can still hear the wind howl outside at times. Feeling very cozy
CURRENTLY READING
Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs and some Christmas magazines (& some new cookbooks!)
ON THE TV TODAY:
Still catching up on some holiday movies, watching Ted Lasso, HGTV shows, vlogs I like on youtube
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - leftover christmas ham (freezing the rest), baked potatoes, green salad, fruit salad
TUESDAY - pasta, garlic bread, roasted broccoli with parm
WEDNESDAY - thawing homemade turkey broth and turkey from thanksgiving I had in freezer. Going to make slow cooker turkey noodle soup with amish egg noodles (so good!)
THURSDAY - might order from local place Aaron likes
FRIDAY - Due to covid fun will still be quarantining and may watch fun movie with Aaron, facetime with Matt, snuggle in and just make lots of fun snacks including a brie cheese I picked up that has a spiced apple filling and all enclosed in bread crust to eat with crackers and fruit.
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
watch Christmas movies, read, watch shows
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
FROM THE CAMERA:
Loving the cozy moments and neighbors across the bay were working on a skating rink the other day
My taste of home subscription box came (I get it every 3 months) and knocked it out of the park again with great things I will absolutely use!
I made my Gram's cut outs because it's tradition - along with her homemade cream cheese frosting. They are such a favorite for Christmas! But then I had to order cookies from my amazingly talented friend with the cookie co. I kept some but I mainly love to give hers as gifts. 🎁
Been doing other yummy cooking including making cardamom bread french toast the other night
And then the blizzard rolled in and we've been staying extra snuggly.
And now to my Christmas gift from Matt as promised. I had boxes I had to open in order. First was this...and the note said "you'll probably need this". (it's a tuner) Then the next gift was a music book for a certain instrument - so then I kind of knew. The note said "you've always wanted to learn"
And the last box had this:
A baby Celtic harp. Months ago we had a conversation about things on our bucket list. I had mentioned it would be a dream to get a harp and learn to play. In that conversation I whined that it would probably be too hard at this stage of the game to learn...and I remembered him telling me that I should always chase my dreams. And that he would love to help support whatever dreams I have. So that memory came back to me when I opened and needless to say, I cried in front of all of my family. Lol It really touched my heart. And I just LOVE my beautiful new harp! I figured out how to tune it and play some very basic tunes (think Twinkle twinkle little star Lol)
PS: Here's more pics of my cutie when he took his adorable folks and family out to a swanky steak house for his parent's 47th wedding anniversary:
♥️ ♥️ ♥️
PRAYER LIST:
Prayers for gratitude and thankfulness for so many blessings. I pray for an end to the virus. For peace and unity everywhere. For health care workers, first responders and all those who work so hard to take care of others. For my former FIL. For all those traveling during the holidays. For anyone that is having an extra difficult time during this holiday season 🙏