Weekend - End of School Break - 2025!

Saturday: (01/04/25) Put a pot roast in the slow cooker for dinner.

Ate leftover collard greens and Tuscan soup for lunch. AA was housebound, not much going on. 

RH happy hour with my uninspired crostini with fig jam, blue cheese crumbles and fresh basil leaves. Mia came directly from finishing at Dena's home; brought the rest of her clothes to our home. 

Lunch of leftovers, then beef stew for dinner.

Melissa sent us two more gifts - a black LSL pullover and the wine glass holder in the shape of a picnic table.

Made a loaf of Irish Soda Bread; gave half to Hugh. Also gave Kathy a re-gifted bottle of wine and some pepper jelly.

Sunday: January 5th - My Dad would have turned 94 today.

We all try to sleep in but usually not successful. Ford continues to get up between three and four in the morning and tries to sleep in his den chair. I am lucky if I get four hours of sleep. Mia is staying with us for another five or six nights hopefully she can move into her new Middleburg home on Saturday. I got ready and went to church first buying 25 Dunkin’ Donuts holes for hospitality. The message at church was all about   "Do you have margin?" which means do you have your priorities straight so that you have enough time in the day or hour or whatever to focus on God and family, instead of being busy all the time.  Being busy may think you are doing the right things, when in actually you need to stop doing some of the busy tasks and slow down (Martha complaining to Jesus that Mary was goofing off while she prepared the meal - here was the teacher at her home and she was not joining in; thought the busy work - which could have waited, was the important tasks). 

AA, Ford and I took down Christmas tree decorations, dead tree is out on the driveway! It was very crispy. I went thru/sorted all our 2024 statements, getting ready for taxes.

AA spent some time in her bedroom; gloominess, sadness and grief takes over sometimes, she misses her puppy (we watched an episode of Bluey to cheer her up). We look for dogs being rehomed, but nothing so far (looking for an adult, female, doodle-mix, near Florida). We all miss Ginger; she was our 4th to our family.

Sunday was "champagne Sunday" and ate cheese and crackers for dinner.

Lunch was caprese salad and leftover Tuscan soup.

Other news: NHS and an email from Bill Hiers:

Back to school tomorrow!