AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 12/02

We woke up to rain so we'll delay our walk until it gets drier. I'll be mostly working around the house today and will have football on in the background.

DH used to put lights all around our former house which was 2 1/2 stories. Very precarious! Now lights go on the tree trunks, bushes, etc. Much safer for a 76-year-old! Our neighborhood goes crazy so it's a lot of fun to walk/drive down our street during the holidays.

Dinner will be either tri-tip or spaghetti. I need to decide soon.

scrapmaven , I hope you're home and comfy in your recliner.

jeremysgirl supplied me with today's meme:

It’s cold and rainy here. sueg that’s a lot of snow. We really haven’t had any here which is unusual. I think dinner is going to be the ribs I bought at Costco. Starting to put my fall decorations away. I don’t really decorate a lot for holidays. Then tomorrow I will get some Christmas decorations out again not a lot.

scrapmaven I hope they can figure out how to help you with the tube issue.

Dreary here...although the rain has held off thus far, I hear tomorrow will be rainy.
Dinner will be out...Have reservations at legal Seafood, I have a GC from last Christmas that wants to be used...so we shall.
Just window candles for us this year...DH was complaining that my "inflatables" ruined his lawn last year so I am giving him a reprieve.

Love and Hugs jeremysgirl💕💕💕
Thinking of you, scrapmaven 🙏🏻🙏🏻

It is rainy here today but I am getting into the Christmas Spirit.

There was a recipe for a french toast casserole on a thread that sounded so very good, so I went and made it.  Resting in the fridge right now.
It has torn bread, eggs, cream, orange zest, sugar and then raspberries in the middle and on top.  I also added some wild blueberries that I picked this summer in Northern Ontario. 

www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/raspberry-baked-french-toast-4720583

This is a 1st Sunday of Advent treat for my son & his family.  I'm adding whipped cream, REAL Maple syrup, bacon, hot chocolate packages with marshmallows & Lindt Chocolate balls.  I am also sending along some of my Christmas baking and as a special treat ~~ a family activity for them to do.  It's a Lego Advent wreath to put together.  You add a flame to the candle each Sunday of Advent.  I also have a booklet of the readings for each Sunday of Advent.  

I'm spreading out the Christmas treats over the month of December and there will be fewer gifts on Christmas day.  They don't need anything and I don't really know what to get the grandkids, so I'm spreading out during the month of December.

I'm enclosing a card stating that this will be a bit of a different Christmas but I need to somehow cut out the expectations of *greatness*  on Christmas Day.  

I'll be making them a hot meal one day a week plus a special treat for Sunday morning breakfasts.  This spreads out the energy that I will use into reasonable *bites*.  A new tradition will hopefully happen.

Dinner will be the breakfast casserole that I made for me, just a small bit but enough for me to enjoy.

DD just got on the road with puppies in tow. I wish I’d taken my phone outside with me to get a picture of the two of them poking their heads out the window to say goodbye. They’re belted in with dog seat belts? Whatever. It’s a new world.) 😆

Forgot to say yesterday, I’ve never had or heard of stickers during mammograms. And I’ve had a crap-ton of those things over the years.

jeremysgirl and scrapmaven, thinking of you both today.

sueg posted an amazing photo of their snow this AM in yesterday’s thread, late last night California time. Go find it if you’re interested.

quiltz, your December plans sound lovely.


oh, dinner. Spaghetti, I think. With mushrooms in the meat sauce. There’s been lots of eating out and rechauffe this week.

A very quiet day here today. DH and I spent hours trying to get a new wifi booster working in his garage. After multiple attempts, the screen we needed to move forward randomly popped up and we were able to easily connect the device. Not really sure what the issue was but glad it’s finally working. And I was totally impressed with DHs patience. Normally he gets so frustrated with stuff like that and just wants to throw in the towel.

Was excited that my nephew connected with us today and invited us for a Christmas gathering hosted by him and his wife. We’ve never done that before so very much looking forward to it.

Bought a new battery for my moms car and returned her car to her today. Hopefully it will get her through the winter. She’s 81 but not ready to quit driving yet. She can’t afford another car and we aren’t prepared to buy her another one. We’ve bought her a couple in the past and now that we are retired, our finances don’t allow us to buy another one.

Supper tonight was subs.

We have chili in the crock pot - I've been craving it and DS indulged me to make it while DH is still out of town. (DH doesn't eat chili.) I did a bunch of errands and laundry earlier and now I'm sitting down to do some crafting.

One of the errands was to send a package out to DD1's family with some fun pre-Christmas things for my grandbaby. Glad to have that out in the mail. All their other Christmas things (for both DDs actually; they live close) will be shipped directly to them and we will have wrapping parties at each of their houses to wrap things for each other. We'll be there for about 5 days through Christmas so that plan seems simpler than trying to buy stuff and take it in luggage, or shop out there!

Hope those that are feeling under the weather get better soon and those that are "feeling the weather" (LOL, thinking of you sueg) get a reprieve too! Off in search of yesterday's thread to see the snow pic!

bad storms here today - rain, thunder, lightning, and tornado warnings.

Had a three hour phone call with my best friend this morning -we've set a monthly phone date to catch up. Then grocery shopping once the storms slowed down a bit. Started pulling out the Advent stuff here and packed away the Thanksgiving.

Dinner was chili dogs per DH's request and I made a cranberry apple coleslaw as the side -so easy and so good. I ended up just having coleslaw - yum! DH didn't like it - too much ginger (it only had 3/4 tsp) and DD17 doesn't eat cabbage so I have plenty left for tomorrow.

www.lemontreedwelling.com/apple-cranberry-coleslaw/?fbclid=IwAR36zbwEA1ICrIXiu10uXlRaaz8yWiCvLZymA7-MQzZuRQk3INszTy_l3mc - I used two apples since mine were small and less honey

You know, it wasn't until you mentioned it that I thought about DH being caught up in this, probably because he's been home all week and isn't travelling this coming week. I was also worried about a few work colleagues who were traveling here: One arrived late on Thursday from Mexico into this mess, and was stranded in her hotel room yesterday until another colleague rescued her and brough her to us for dinner. Another has been trying to get here from Sweden since Thursday night, and at last count had had 4 flights cancelled on her. She is now due to fly down tomorrow morning, so hopefully that happens. I think dh said there are another 5 from Gothenburg due to fly in today or early tomorrow for meetings, so we'll see how that goes.
There has been no more snow overnight, so there is a chance the authorities and emergency services can get things cleared up today.