aKathy's What's for Dinner 8/22

I have a chiropractic appointment this morning then I'll hit Raley's. I might grill hamburgers.

I am now in *get-ready-for-Croatia* gear. It's 26 days away so I need to do a little each day plus continue to organize for my 4-day crop the week after we return.

Good job on getting the date right, scrapmaven.

In keeping with today’s apparent theme, I am getting ready to go to my local group’s 4-day crafting weekend. And will be all week. And was last week, too. And still won’t be ready to go when Thursday rolls around.

Dinner will be the cheeseburgers I said I was going to make on Thursday. Assuming the buns are still good. Also potato salad (store bought, but I will doctor up).

Happy Monday dinner friends!

**GypsyGirl** I'm going to look over the class schedule for the Quilt Festival today. I'm attending myself this year and already have a hotel room reserved at the Hilton. Staying with my friend was too confining and this year they plan to go on Saturday at the friends house we stay at is super busy work wise at the start of the month, I just can't in good conscious stay with her while she is so busy. This will also make it easier to meet up with you this year. :-)

DH has flown and owned several planes, single engine and turbo prop. His latest hobby is building and racing RV planes. This new purchase is a partially built airplane he will finish and race. It looks like we will leave this weekend to pick it up.

It was a good weekend and a busy week ahead,

Dinner is going to be Mahi Mahi and veggies, maybe a grain of some sort as well.

Wishing everyone a great day!

 True for most of us I think. I like our dentist and feel a little bad about how much I hate going. 

I just looked at the calendar and realized my first crafting retreat since Jan 2020 is exactly one month away. I follow the lucyg preparation plan and feel happy that both my room is booked and the carpooling plan is in place and won't really think about anything else until the day before.

I am seeing my CASA kids today for a little treat before they head back to school and will have to make Korean tacos for dinner. Have to because they've been on the menu board for a week and DS has been patiently waiting. The plan is to make a ground meat version for him, lentils for me and DH will happily eat both. In fairness, DS would eat the lentils but MUCH prefers the meat version.

Hi Everyone,

scrapmaven I am another who hates the dentist but loves my teeth.

ntsf and cadoodlebug You ladies sound very busy.

lucyg I am be the same way when getting ready for a crop. 

austnscrapaddict Your dinner sounds great!

bc2ca Enjoy seeing the CASA kids today. 

Today, is ODS’s first day of classes. I will text him later to see how he liked them. I am doing laundry, some fall decorating, yes I know it’s August. But last year, I didn’t decorate until October. This year, I am ahead of the curve. 

Dinner tonight is TBD. DH has a fire department meeting. So it’s just YDS and me. 

I hope all of you have a peaceful day! 

I am mostly ready, but it has been added fun to have him getting ready for burning man..he leaves thursday.. and me leaving tuesday. and we are leaving the dog with our kid.. and have arranged a dog walker every day.. so as usual, it is juggling a bunch of balls!! my adult child with autism is anxious and a dog with cooking dinner and school starting this week--is a bit nervous. but my son is in the same town.

off to the heat of Seattle!! when I come back, I have to bring 15 boxes left over from my dad's house to cram into my car.

DD has her first day as a senior today!  A SENIOR!

We will have chicken fajitas for dinner, rice and chips and pico.

I am so jealous of those of you that are attending crops. I miss going to crops.

This is going to be a busy week I have a lot to do before we leave for a short trip on Saturday.

DH picked up the granddaughters after school. I just got home and the are having a great time with the grandsons.

Dinner is going to be BLT sandwiches since so many people are here.

Took my mom to a funeral this morning. It's not wrong to say it was enjoyable, when we saw lots of old friends from church, and the celebration of life was for a woman who was 99, right?

Anyway, I am trying to do some laundry now. It's week 3 of the remodel. We're having salad and cheeseburgers and chips tonight. We're not doing much cooking, but we do have to make pickles tonight.

Good Morning again.
I slept a bit later today, as I didn't have to get up early for toddler gymnastics like yesterday. I had a lovely day with DS's family - mostly Sophia! We went to toddler gym, where I was pointed out to all the instructors - 'My Oma is here. Look, she is in the watching room' - and I got to go out to the floor for 'free choice' time. After lunch, the two of us walked to the park and played for a while, then we went to the library - right next to the park - until DS came to pick us up. The library had been our back up plan, as rain was threatening. We got lucky - I think we'd barely been home for 20 minutes when the heavens opened and the deluge started!

Dinner was meat pies with fries and vegetables. After dinner, I helped with bathtime for both the kids, then came back to my sister's when they went to bed. It was my nephew's 25th birthday yesterday, so I had cake with them.

Today I think I am going to go shopping. I don't NEED anything, but I love to wander the shopping centers here and see how much has changed/stayed the same.

scrapmaven, I go to crops all over NorCal, but many of them, including this one, are at the “local” LSS (about 40 min away, on the way to Sacramento from where I live), so then there’s shopping. Some of them are at hotels, but the organizer used to be an LSS owner and brings supplies and new lines to check out. Others I’ve been to are run by Creative Memories or CTMH consultants, so usually, there’s SOME kind of shopping to be had.

I guess we’re making up for lost time during COVID at this point. Seems like there’s a weekend crop every month or two among my group. Not everyone goes, but I’m pretty much one of the regulars.

I’m not even sure there’s a LSS here anymore.

My friends do a crop only once a year now. This year it coincides with my Italy trip so I’m missing. It really has evolved into a crafting retreat because hardly anyone scrap anymore.

More info out on the brothers who were shooting this weekend. They had over 1000 guns and 140,000 rounds of ammunition. They weren’t even allowed to own guns. Wonder how they got them?

We had fish tacos.

sueg sounds like a nice trip