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Hi Colleen,
I hope your Mom will be okay. I’m glad that you live close enough to go and give her whatever help that she will need. We will be praying for a speedy recovery.
Kendall is feeling better but we still stayed home last night. I figure there are still germs lingering around their house plus it was pretty foggy out so we were just as happy to stay home and veg out.
Well I guess that baby will get here when she feels the time is right. I guess she wants to pick her own date to make her entrance.
It’s snowing very gently outside now. I have no idea how much snow that we will get. I think you said that you were supposed to get some too.
You are lucky that most of your family lives close by. When they live far away you do get used to it-you wish it could be different but you just have to make the best of it.
Take good care of your Mom and I hope that she will be better soon.
GailHi Adele,
I hope the weather holds out and you get to visit your friends for dinner tonight. We are supposed to get rain and then it will turn really cold over the weekend. Hopefully it won’t last for too long. I’m not sure what we will do tonight. We usually go to Jenny’s but since Kendall has been sick I’m not sure. I know that after 24 hours on the antibiotics they are not contagious anymore but i still feel like the germs could be lurking on door handles and such. I know I sound like a germaphobe but I’m really not-I just have to be careful because i take an immunosuppressive.
You are right-it must be a young guy thing about not thinking soup is a whole meal. They probably still need meat and potatoes at their age. Here’s how I make the English muffin pizza breads. I lightly toast the muffins and put them on a baking sheet. i put a little of the pizza sauce on each muffin and spread it around. I use something called pizza quick sauce which is in a squeeze bottle i think made by Contadina-it’s perfect for this as you only use a small amount. Then I top each muffin with a slice of mozzarella or provolone and run them under the broiler until the cheese melts. Everyone seems to like them and they are the perfect little side to a bowl of soup.
We don’t have any plans this weekend. No more Bears games as they are out of the playoffs. It’s still so gloomy outside. No sunshine in sight. I don’t think I would do well in Alaska or one of those Scandinavian countries where they have practically 24 hours of night during part of the winter.
GailHi Colleen,
I have that pine cone shirt. It is warm. That’s one of the ones that i bought last month full price and now it is on clearance. Ticks me off!
I too miss Debbie’s weekly Costco reports. I will have to email her soon and see how she is doing. Her situation makes me so sad. Someone so lively now struggles every day to feel good. I wonder how Scott is adjusting to all these changes as she always cooked for him and did many things around the house that she probably can no longer do. It really is a test of for better or for worse.
I ordered my bread mixes from an online site called the Preferred Pantry. I like getting the mixes from them because you cannot get things like rye flour around here and they have the rye mixes and the dark rye mixes. I like the bread machine because it mixes rises and cooks all in one machine. The kitchen aide has the dough hooks but you still have to rise it and knead it and then bake it on your own. The machine is for a lazy cook like me.
We used to have a crepe restaurant a town over and it was very popular but it closed down and moved to a different location. We can get biscuits and gravy around here at some of the places that are like diners they are on the breakfast menu.
I don’t particularly like flying either anymore but sometimes you need to in order to get where you need to be. I would have missed the opportunity to see a lot of places if i didn’t fly as one doesn’t always have the time to drive somewhere. Plus when my Dad died they lived in Louisiana and when Mom died she lived in Florida so we had to fly in order to get to their funerals. Flying is sometimes like going to the doctors for a checkup-you don’t particularly like doing it but you need to get to the end result. lol
My friend the cardinal is at the window again looking for love. lol
I hope Kendall feels better soon too and doesn’t pass it all around to the other kids. So far Piper and Jenny have gotten strep throat and Adam and Lachlan haven’t-sounds like the boys are safe and the girl’s aren’t. Her birthday is next weekend so she should be recuperated by then.
Speaking of that you are really in the final countdown for little girl we don’t know what her name will be. Have you picked out a new baby gift yet? You must be wondering now if every day will be the day.
GailHello All,
Christine-I’m sorry that you have so much trouble with the health system there. It must be quite frustrating. I hope that you feel better soon. Patch is growing up to be such a good dog. I’ll bet he is great company for you while Stewart is at work.
Adele, Brent says the same thing when I make soup for a meal-that it’s just not like a real meal. And we love a good hearty soup and some bread or sometimes i make little pizza muffins with English muffins some mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce.
You didn’t miss much on the Quacker shows-just sort of a recycle of things we’ve already seen.And clearance on some items that are still pretty new. I hate when they do that and I have already bought the items.
We don’t have BJ’s here either. Never even heard of it. I’ll have to ask our NY friends if they have it.
It would be nice if Steph would learn to drive-it would make things easier for all.
I thought Aizen was channeling Mathew McCoughnehey too. I know that’s not spelled right. lol
Well now Kendall has strep throat and scarlet fever so she will be off school more and it will be even harder to go back. Poor thing. I told Jenny she needs to do something special for her-however I will probably need to stay away from her now. I’m glad Adam is home this week and next week.
Colleen, i hadn’t used my bread machine for awhile and i got it out and used it the other day. it is a nice thing to have and I just bought some mixes from The Prepared pantry so you just have to add water and butter or oil or egg depending on the mix.
I can’t believe that you have two gifts already. The only bad thing about shopping this early is storing them for a whole year and remembering where you put them.
If we had oatmeal for dinner both of us would go hungry as neither of us like it. I’ve tried since it’s good for you but just don’t like the taste or the consistency. But we do like eggs. Actually I had a taste for crepes for dinner on Sunday and Greg made them. His mother used to make them and I don’t even know the recipe as he always does it.
We leave our stuff up with the batteries until they wear out too. No one wants to store half used batteries for a year.
It’s funny how brother and sister can fight like cats and dogs and then when push comes to shove they stand up for each other. That was nice of Ethan to protect Kaylee. Brent and Jenny both worked part time at Subway during high school and one time some young guy was in there and Jenny was behind the counter making sandwiches and he kept calling her a dumb blond and that she was stupid and stuff and Brent was in the back and heard it and came out and took care of the guy. he didn’t get in trouble as there was plenty of witnesses to this guy being obnoxious and the owner Debbie liked both Brent and Jenny a lot because they were good workers.
I hope everyone is feeling well and not getting rain or storms or snow. i just wish the sun would shine for more than a few minutes. It’s really getting to me. Now would be the time for a trip to somewhere sunny. it’s a good thing i already have a passport as now in Illinois and a few other states if you want to fly you need a passport because of some snafu with updating the driver’s license identification.
GailHere is that note from the little girl that didn’t want to go back to school.
Hi Colleen,
My mixer is not fixed yet. Greg ordered a part that may or may not work to fix it.
You know I can’t remember what Mom did with the goose. I imagine if she stuffed it she probably just used her regular stuffing recipe. I wish that I could remember how it tasted. I think she only made it for a few years and then switched to something else.
What kind of straps did Ron wrap up? That reminds me of our friends that we exchange gifts with-they wrapped up a tshirt, some socks and a pair of underwear that Greg had left in the bedroom at their house up north when they stopped over on their way home from Canada. When Greg opened it he didn’t recognize the stuff as his and he was acting like he got this nice gift until he got to the underwear and realized it was his own stuff to begin with. Everyone got a good laugh from that.
All our decorations won’t come down Thursday. We will take it down bit by bit as I have the time and energy. I just won’t light the trees after Wednesday. The outdoor lights that are on timers will go on until we take them all down. I figure it didn’t all get put up in a day so it will take longer than a day to take it down. I’m not in any big rush. I’m like you in that some years it wasn’t all down until the end of January and I really don’t mind. I don’t have the Christmas police knocking at my door or anything.
I can get Greg to do a lot of stuff that I don’t want to do. Like I don’t like assembling things-I just don’t like doing it so if I act like I’m really struggling with something he will come over to help and then just take over the job that I really didn’t want to do anyway. Don’t tell anyone though. I guess I’m a little bit like Tom Sawyer just with a different technique.
I haven’t talked to Jenny but i heard that Kendall had a hard time going back to school yesterday which doesn’t surprise me. I said something about going back on Friday and she gave me a funny look-so I was thinking that it would be a struggle for her. Did you see the story about the little girl who wrote her own note to her parents that was supposed to be from the school “business” that said it was staying closed for another week. It was obviously written and signed in a little kids handwriting. I give her points for being creative.
Well you all will be surprised at the new baby’s name. Is she letting the father have a vote in this? lol I was lucky in that Jenny usually asked me about the different names that she had picked out and she payed attention to my suggestions too. I really liked the name Rhys for Lachlan but Adam didn’t want to use that as he had a cousin with that name so they did use it for his middle name. When she chose the name Kendall it was quite unique but now it’s being used more often and I loved the name Piper right away-reminded me of Piper Laurie the movie actress who I am sure Jenny had never heard of. Now I can’t wait to hear what name Danyielle choses! Will you go over to help out after she brings the baby home?
GailHi Adele,
I’m sure we’ll get our Piper “fix” when we go over on the weekend. I guess it’s back to school for the kids this week. I think Christmas vacation is a good time for all the germs that the kids are passing around in the schools to die off so that everyone can come back to a fresh healthy school. Kendall’s birthday is in a couple of weeks. I can’t believe that she will be 8 years old! It seems like just yesterday that she was a tiny newborn. I seems like the grandkids grow up even faster than the kids. I guess the older we get the more time accelerates which is very scary.
I’m glad that the surgery will not be on Gary’s dominant arm. That will make a big difference. There are some pretty good dry shampoos that you can get and you can get those towlettes like they use in hospitals for general cleansing. Not the same as a good hot shower but manageable for a few days. I guess there are some advantages to being bald like Greg. lol
Hey Al Roker is talking about your ocean affect snow right now. What a coincidence.
No it’s not a food processor-it’s a regular kitchen aide but this thing is inside so you probably don’t even know it’s there. You forget I have a husband who opens everything up to see what makes it run-fortunately he can usually put it back together again too. Usually…
You have a big kitchen. Greg usually mops for me as he doesn’t like the way I leave too much water on the wood floor. Could it be that I do it purposely?!! lol Right now it doesn’t even matter as our floors need to be refinished so badly.
Do you ever make cinnamon raisin bread-I love that for breakfast. The Zuppa Englaise sounds really good too. I am a fan of custard-eclairs are good!
My ankle is doing well as long as I put on the brace when I do a lot of walking. I think the cold affects it a little but not too much. And of course the dryness of the winter is better for the RA than the humidity of summer. Greg’s not hobbling quite as bad. You know how sprains are-they take a long time to totally heal.
Bacon buns are a Lithuanian food. They are made with a bread dough-it seems like we change it up a little everytime as we don’t have the actual recipe from Greg’s Mom or Grandfather. The dough is rolled out and cut in a circle and stuffed with a mixture(we use bacon and ground pork and ham mixed together) The filling is all cooked before you stuff the buns. It’s a pretty time consuming all day process-especially since Greg made a double recipe of bread and filling. He made the dough and the filling and I helped stuff and shape the buns and then we got both ovens going so we had an assembly line. Oh you also brush them with a little egg wash before you bake them. You would never be able to find them anywhere unless you had a Lithuanian bakery somewhere around you.
I hope that you won’t get too much snow and that you will get a chance to celebrate Aizen’s birthday soon. Is this his first birthday? It must be. Does he still have his curls? He’s so cute! I thought that was so sweet that he took his school bus to bed.
I hope there’s something good cooking at your house today.
GailHi Adele,
I’m sorry that you didn’t see Steph but you are right she and Jhonny need to get out together too. Date nights are important.
So now they replace shoulders too. I knew about knees and hips but have not known anyone with a shoulder replaced. We will all be thinking about Gary and praying for a speedy recovery when the time comes. Is it on his dominant side?
I don’t think Greg actually had anything to do with breaking the mixer. From his research he thinks it’s some kind of computer chip so he ordered the part and if it works again we’ll have a good mixer otherwise we will have to buy a new one.
I hope you remembered to check the box so that you will get the notifications.
GailHi Colleen,
My mother always used to cook a goose for Christmas and I must have liked it as we all ate it. I just really don’t remember what it tasted like. I don’t even know where you could buy one to eat around here anymore.
We did freeze some of the bacon buns as Greg made a double order as long as he was making them and he had me here to help stuff them. We gave some to Jenny and he will take some to work and we will have the rest. They are such a treat that we eat them up pretty quickly. You can buy them at the Lithuanian bakery by Greg’s old house but that would be a 4 hour round trip. other wise there’s no where else to get them. Now that I’m talking about it I will check to see if there is anywhere that makes them and ships them.
Melissa’s dinner sounds good. Hopefully she left you enough so that you won’t have to cook tonight. You know I am thinking about it and I can’t remember the last time that I had a tater tot. Maybe I will have to get some.
How was your visit with your friends? Did you beat them at dominoes? We ended up going to the casino yesterday afternoon for a couple of hours and then coming back home and feeding Rocky and having a cocktail and then going over to Jenny’s for a little bit.
Adam has two weeks vacation so I am relieved of babysitting duties for a couple of weeks. Now if only I can work up the enthusiasm to work on some of my projects around here and then next week we will have to take the decorations down.
I heard from Brent and they are still pretty cold there so the snow is not melting off as quickly as it normally would. He’s supposed to be starting his new job soon. I hope that goes well. He called on Christmas Day and it was nice to hear his voice instead of just e-mailing. He sounds good. It’s funny when he was in NM last time after awhile you get kind of used to them being away and then they come back and you get used to them being around. Then they leave again and you have to adjust to missing them all over again. It must have been hard on my parents to have none of their adult children nearby-i just didn’t realize it back then.
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