11-16-13

10:30am

I think I went to bed around 8:30pm

then got up for a couple hours then back

to bed til 9:30am.

If today goes well meaning not too many pages

out to go to hubby's work,

then we might work on getting the gutters

cleared out of leaves and start hanging

Christmas lights on them.

Other than to be checked to make sure they work

the lights won't come on again til the day after

Thanksgiving.  That's also when I get

the Christmas tree and other decorations out.

One holiday at a time thank you.

Last night me and hubby was trying to figure

out his vacation time.  He is only allowed

to roll over one week each year and he has

3 days needing used up before then.

He gets Dec. 24 & 25th off so decided 2 vacation days

will be for the 26th and 27th.

Then we have one more day sometime to

go Christmas shopping.

While we don't have much money I do have

our Christmas savings account to fall

back upon now for Christmas presents.

I started this a couple years ago because

we were so broke we could hardly have a Christmas

for the kids.  Now $25 is taken out of hubby's

paycheck automatically.  By the end of the year

we have save up $600 to use for Christmas.

3:00pm

We went to the grocery store to get food for the week

and spent $49 with no coupons.

I had a small list and no meals planned.

Sometimes I just have to go to the store

and find mark down meat and take it from there for meals.

So here are the meals I have for this week

after the trip to the store.

1.  4.69 pound package of chicken wings marked down.

bbq chicken wings with beans, mac n cheese,

maybe a potato salad.

2. & 3.  2.69 pound package of pork roast marked down.

Sides- mashed potatoes & gravy,

green beans or peas, bread & butter.

4.  Chinese veggies (marked down) & teriyaki pasta

with chicken nuggets.

5.  Sweet Italian bread pizzas.

Bakery bread was marked down.

6.  Marked down Italian sausage on bread

with a side of french fries.

7.  Sausage gravy & biscuits

8.  Breakfast casserole with biscuits,

eggs, cheese and bacon.

6:00pm

Nothing like mowing and raking leaves in the dark.

We started cleaning out gutters and raking leaves

earlier but of course the pager went off

and we had to head to hubby's work for a little

over two hours.
This was earlier before we got called to work.

8:15pm

I've got a lot of clothes to start going through.

My friend gave me 15 to 20 trash bags full of

her mom's clothes, shoes and coats!!

Now imagine a whole back end of a Suburban

top to bottom, side to side full

of bags of clothing!!!


Hubby wants to go to his mom's for Thanksgiving
so I guess we're going.
So now I've been sitting her racking my brain
as to what I can cheaply take.
I have my 3 crock slow cooker I can use
and take with us.
I was thinking maybe some creamed corn
in one crock.
You put about 3-4 cans of drained corn in the crock
with about half a block of cream cheese, butter, milk,
salt and pepper.
I have a bunch of canned corn I found marked
down at Kroger.

In the other two crocks I think I'm going to make
my usual homemade noodles with gravy.

Then lastly I have a bunch of chips that I bought
awhile back for .25 cents a bag.
I have blue corn chips, sweet potato chips
& other kinds of chips.
What if I put those on a platter with a cheese ball?
I saw a recipe for a cream cheese ball that looked yummy.
Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball.


OK, time for some more ibuprofen.
I don't think yard work did my body any justice today
but it needed done.
Let the throbbing resume, ahhh.