Menu Monday

Another week of menus coming right up.

Monday

Leftover turkey made into some pot pies. I am going to give my mini pie maker a go today. Hope everything works out.

Tuesday

Since I will be working the afternoon (or I hope to be working) I plan on pulling out some frozen stew.

Wednesday

Leftover Turkey pot pies, should be a few left, but if not I will use up some leftover ham from Sunday in a meal.

Thursday

Either clean out the fridge smorg, or Hot Dogs and baked beans.

Friday

Fish Fillets, homemade fries, and a salad.

Saturday

Cabbage bread from the freezer.

Sunday

Roast Chicken, roast potatoes, and green beans.

Hopefully there will be no changes, but it all depends on leftovers, no waste, and keeping the fridge cleaned out.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Sunday Roundup

I finally finished knitting all the pieces of my sweater. It is being blocked and hopefully I will be able to finish it tomorrow. I will post a picture when it is completed.

I did complete two simple sewing projects this week.

First was this plaid, rear kick pleat skirt. An easy sew.

An even easier sew was this.

A knit skirt. I messed up on the waistband but since said waist band will be covered by a shirt I am not going to worry too much about it.

I am hoping to spend some more time next week in the sewing room and continue getting those cut out patterns done. I plan on working on them until they are done and then moving on to another unfinished project or another of my goals for the month. Perhaps concentrating on one item at a time will enable me to clear more projects than the constant jumping between them.

Evenings will be spent doing other projects when I can't sew. Knitting and embroidery seem perfect for sitting and watching the television at night.

Other then a couple of extra cleaning jobs things have been very quiet. I haven't gone shopping this past week. This means I have three no spend days under my belt....Only a few more to go.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Feeling A Bit Lost

After all the hub bub of the holidays the quietness is getting to me.

Back to cooking for two instead of four is taking a bit of getting used to again. I find myself wanting to pull out more meat than we need. Take last night for instance. I pulled two cans of salmon out of the pantry

and proceeded to make 4 rather large salmon patties. Now the extra patties will not go to waste. We will either have then for another supper or perhaps lunch, but I do regret using more than was necessary.

I no longer have to fight for time with the computer.

I can play on it any time I want to, and the funny thing is it is working perfectly once again without Kris having to do anything to it. Mind you it did start once all on it's own in the middle of the night. Kind of spooky when a person goes into the bathroom to a dark computer and comes out to it flickering back to life. Almost thought we had a ghostly visitor.

I don't even have to fight for the television remote or search for it in the morning!! I found it in the oddest places when the boys were home. Harvey sometimes loses it in the couch cushions, never on the counter beside the door.

I am sure I will get used to our normal life again, but I sure miss having the give and take of more than two people in the house.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

The Start Of A New Year

It has been quiet around here today. I find myself looking out the front window for Kurt and Kris. They are gone now and won't be home for awhile. Kris will probably be home for some ice fishing later this month. Kurt.....perhaps not until the summer. I am not sure if he plans on traveling this summer or not.

Thought I would share my monthly goals with all of you.

1.     Sew those patterns I cut out last month.

2.     Finish knitting my sweater.

3.     Finish the embroidered quilt.

4.     Work on more quilt blocks.

5.     Download more free books for our trip to Spain and Portugal (the trip over is going to be a long one).

6.     Work on my rug.

7.     Work on knitting some more Monster leggings for the little ones.

8.     I am hoping for twenty no spend days this month (actually would love to hit 22 no spend days).

So there you have it my months goals. I am already working on the first one, and knitting my sweater is the way I spend most of my evenings. I am hoping to finish my sweater very soon.

Everyone have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Monthly Update, The Last Day Of The Year

Here it is the final day of 2015. It seems to have crept up on me so very quickly.

This year I went with monthly goals instead of yearly goals which are always so hard for me to achieve. My achievement of the monthly goals on the other hand went wonderfully well. I have decided to continue doing this, even if I fall behind I usually manage to get the goal completed the next month.

So here is my monthly update for December.

1.   Get the tree up and decorated.  Done

2.   Make a quilt for the ladies gift for our family party.  Done

3.   Get the Christmas baking done.  Done

4.   Cut out sewing patterns.  Done

5.   Continue decluttering project.  Done

6.   Make up my monthly calendars and daily to do list pages.  Done

7.   Work on embroidery.  Done

8.   Start some of those unfinished sewing projects.  I have started this, just today. I did manage to finish a skirt.

9.  Get the gifts wrapped.  Done

10.  Try for 18 no spend days.  Done and I actually made 19 days of no spending.

11.  Knit a sweater for me to wear for our family Christmas party. Not done, but just a few more days should see this task completed. I have added it to next months goals.

By the end of the month I had actually removed 755 items from my home. I sure plan on continuing this next year. I did more then the 500 I had hoped to remove. Now I just have to think of how much I want to remove next year.

I will post my new goals tomorrow.

Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

 

All Gone

Everyone has left now, Kurt a few days ago and Kris at around noon today. Sure seems quiet around the old homestead now. I think that I had gotten used to cooking and cleaning for a crowd, and now that we are back to normal things could be a bit confusing for awhile.

Thought I would post a few pictures from the last few days.

Kris, relaxing upstairs on Christmas Eve.

Harvey, during the day on Christmas Eve looking over some woodworking books and soaking labels off wine bottles.

Kurt, with the usual happy expression on his face when having a picture taken. Like me he would prefer to not have his picture taken.

My gifts this year. I got everything I asked for and more. Kurt got me the mini pie maker for Christmas and the cupcake maker for my birthday. Kris got me the lovely stock pot for Christmas and the android tv box for my birthday.

Kurt and Kris loved their handmade gifts and started to use their quilts almost immediately.

A picture of all the Phillips boys at our Christmas gathering.

Two of Harvey's five sisters were here as well.

They decided we needed to take a picture of the in laws with the sisters...... Like Kurt I would much rather have been the picture taker.

Our youngest family member with her Grandma. Brea was such a good baby, smiling at everyone and not making strange at all.

So another family Christmas finished with and kind of looking forward to the next (as long as I can stay out of the pictures).

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Monday

The house is fairly quiet once again, and I am even managing to get on to the blog. Yippee!!!

As usual my menus are subject to switching around, which will more than likely happen a great deal the next week or so. I find it very hard to either cook enough or I cook too much when Kurt and Kris are home. When both are home...whoa, do I go to town.

Monday

Leftover appetizers (so many of them from the family get together). They need gone from my freezer, so we will be having a mixture of sausage rolls, spring rolls, samosas, mozzarella sticks, cheese and crackers, and whatever else needs out of there.

Tuesday

My birthday, so hopefully ordering in or heading out for dinner.

Wednesday

Leftover Stew and perhaps some dumplings.

Thursday

Either a clean out the fridge night or leftover turkey soup.

Friday

Salmon cakes, rice and peas and carrots.

Saturday

Porkchops, leftover rice, and corn.

Sunday

Roast Ham, mashed potatoes, and green beans.

I will not be shopping for food this week (well perhaps some milk and cream) so hopefully will be well under budget for this month. Trying to see where we can cut and where we need to add to the budget. Could be fun next year as fixed expenses are rising but what we bring in is staying the same. This could take some creative reworking of the budget.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.