AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 02/04

Hi leannec! I do not dress my pets up but Ellie did go for grooming about ten days before Christmas and they put a Grinch bandana on her that I left on through the holiday. Or should I say that she was nice enough to leave it on through the holiday. Lol! I can't even see my cats cooperating. Haha...

I'm getting ready to drop Chloe off at work. She should finally have her driver's license back this week. Yay! She had a breathalyzer installed in her car last week so they should be issuing a restricted license now. I'm so proud of her. She will have to drive with the breathalyzer for about a year. But she seems to be having no trouble staying sober. So that's just a great thing.

I'm meeting Jeremy's sister this afternoon for a cookie decorating class. Unfortunately I've got to drive...again...back to my hometown to do the class. I was just there last night for that concert. Sigh. But it's worth it for fun things. The music last night was very good. The string quartet was awesome. Unfortunately I've been to several of these candlelight concerts that aren't classical in nature and I'm irritated with how people do not know how to behave. I like it so much more when we go to the big theater to see the full symphony. They don't put up with the kind of crap that went on last night.

When I get back from decorating cookies Jeremy should be home. I'm stuffing butternut squash with lentils, apricots and pomegranate.

This is what we're having for dinner tonight too. I've been so hungry for Honey Baked Ham that I stopped by and they were having a sale on their smaller packages of buy one, get one free so score!


I'm cleaning this morning and then going to the store to get the rest of the groceries. I wish I had one more day off this weekend but oh well. 

so went to the film festival last night.. all the films were really fabulous.. banff mountain film tour. the bus going there worked out easily.. on the way back, I had to wait 30 min.. but there was a bench and it was softly snowing and I wasn't cold.

the most frustrating thing today is that we have dropped cable and use youtube tv.. and it is not working this morning..saying all programs not available in my area. and my tech support dh is not here.

colder out..after the long day yesterday, I am doing a in house day. more snow tonight so skiing tomorrow.

dinner will be salad and scrambled eggs and sausage.

scrapmaven hope you're feeling better today.

jeremysgirl have fun at the cookie decorating class.

leannec enjoy your breakfast and your dinner sounds delicious !

It's a chilly morning but should get warmer later on today. Plans for today is to go through a box of old paperwork and shred what I don't want to keep. I might also go to a Dog Show and parade today that they are having by the clubhouse.

No idea what's for dinner yet.

karenlou, you're a great nurse. I hope that you have an easy shift tonight.

No costumes on pets here in this household either! I don't personally even like it, but neither my cat nor DS's cat would ever tolerate it anyway. IF I had a dog (big IF there, more on that later*), the most I would do is a bandana. I feel like they're already wearing something (collar) around the neck anyway, so the bandana might not be as much of a bother. *I love dogs...as long as they live in someone else's house LOL. I've found I don't really enjoy living with a dog, even for a short time. After my divorce from XDH (many years ago) DD1 and I lived with my mom, her husband, and their dog for a while. Loved the dog, hated living with it! Love my neighbors'/friends'/sister's dogs and enjoy visiting with them, but happy to leave them in their own household.

Tonight is chili, as mentioned in yesterday's dinner thread. Looking forward to it!

jeremysgirl, kudos to Chloe!

Dinner is lasagna sort of. I used a different kind of noodle to make it. It’s called Malfaldine. it looks like the curly edges of lasagna. Homemade from the place where I always buy my fresh pasta. 

The rain is really coming down. Makes it hard when you have a dog who needs to go out sometime.

My dogs have been given various jingle bell collars which they all liked. I would sometimes put them on when walking them during the holidays. Another gift was was a bow tie and button down type collar. I did have a Halloween costume of a "wide retriever" when one golden would answer the door with me. Only other clothes is a raincoat and he's pretty unhappy about it when he wears it.

Tonight we may just have tuna melts on sourdough. For lunch we will have pan fried dumplings and wonton soup.

My girls are little and they get cold, so they are almost always clothed. Lots of hoodies/dresses and sweaters. They have a better wardrobe than I do. Lola is a little chunky so she sometimes doesn't enjoy it and will wiggle out, and streak around the house. Then we call out "naked baby!" and she wiggles her butt. It's funny and cute and ridiculous, ans hey.. I didn't get to dress up babies, and Nick's grandson's are far away (I hope) from babies still. So these girls are my babies. ❤️

I was trying to upload a picture but I guess we have maxed out the ability to do that. 

I made blueberry pancakes with mimosas for breakfast. Now I'm not going to be hungry for the early dinner we are meeting some of Nick's family for. I arranged for a number of them to meet us at Olive Garden yesterday, bc Nick was missing his mom and that's a place she really enjoyed. We had soup and salad and were stuffed...slept thru the late dinner we planned after shopping. So we are all out if whack. Anyway, they asked us to join them today so we are trying a new Mexican place that they really like. Yesterday we were exploring  the Oak Lawn area in IL. We found a couple of music stores, a very interesting bakery that seemed to be Puerto Rican and...Muslim? And Half Price Books. It was a full day!

Not sure what I will have...maybe a burrito. Either way I am sure we will have leftovers for Nick's lunches this week. I Eben have extra pancakes for his breakfasts.

Hope everyone has a great day!

I wanna see your cute babies!    You can upload easily to "postimages" ---it doesn't take
any space on this site.