SUPPER CLUB - CHRISTMAS EVE EVE!
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:23 am
Good morning!
We are 32* this morning, breezy and it's damp out but nothing coming down from the sky. The word 'snow' has been bandied about by our weather forecasters but I doubt we'll see any of it.
Today I'll be doing a small amount of baking and Bill will parboil the potatoes for tomorrow's brunch. He likes to make hashbrowns. They will go well with scrambled eggs and ham. My DD is making gluten free blueberry muffins because my DDIL can't eat gluten. Or eggs. I have 2 vegetarians and 2 picky eaters. It's a difficult crowd I cook for. Everyone will be here by 9am so I might not get on the computer tomorrow. Y'all may have to carry on without me.
CHICKIE - you are one busy hostess this weekend! I hope you get help with clean up! Bill always tells me to not bother cleaning BEFORE an event. Invite enough people and they can't see the floors anyway. And there is always cleaning to do AFTER the event. In some ways he has a valid point. But I still do it. (between you and me I think he's just trying to get out of helping clean!)
IRISH - I must be a ditz! I thought Stephen was already gone to bootcamp and I was having a hard time figuring out why he was getting so much time off. They don't usually let the recruits run back to Gramma's for holidays. But then I remembered who his gramma is and figured they made an exception for him! lol! that's too funny about wrapping the gifts in newspaper when Dad worked for the wrapping paper company! We often used the Sunday funnies or road maps. I still have old maps in my wrapping paper totes.
BECKY - nice to be able to please at least one person with your cooking. If you refer to my opening paragraph, you will see that's a difficult thing to achieve in MY family! I've gotten so frustrated that I now cook to please Bill and I and everyone else can either eat around their dislikes or bring their own. lol! Tacos is a very good choice for a family like mine - they can add (or not) whatever they want.
JANA - seems like shared birthdays are a thing in your family! It is in ours, too, only we share ours with our furkids! lol! I can't believe Ethan will be 6. I keep saying that, don't I. Soon I'll be saying, "I can't believe Ethan is going to be 16"! That little pageant you are planning with the grands sounds so purrfect! My sister and I used to do the same thing and make our parents sit and watch. It was hard for two little girls to play all the parts! I'm so excited for the puppy for Christmas! I bet the puppy and kitten will be good friends after the first hissy hello. Especially since they are meeting when both are babies. I can't wait to see what they name the puppy. My BFF's son got his family a puppy last year. "Poppy" is her name. and their Christmas letter was written by Poppy. So funny!
BECCA - Sometimes it's easy to tell about twins but it's nice to have the official lab work done. My neighbor that I walk with has identical twins. They will be 24 in February. I can't tell them apart. I bet your friend loved your table topper.
The last I heard from Tina was about 7pm last night. No significant changes in her mom except a feeding tube for some nutrition. They were doing tests to try to figure out exactly what happened. I know Tina hasn't been sleeping much so I hesitate to call or even text just in case she's managed to catch a nap.
Our dinner tonite will hopefully be that chicken soup. Our friends took a while but eventually decided they DID want to go to our favorite Mexican haunt yesterday about 20 seconds after I put the lid on the crockpot. So we unplugged it and put it in the fridge. We'll cook that today. Finally.
We are 32* this morning, breezy and it's damp out but nothing coming down from the sky. The word 'snow' has been bandied about by our weather forecasters but I doubt we'll see any of it.
Today I'll be doing a small amount of baking and Bill will parboil the potatoes for tomorrow's brunch. He likes to make hashbrowns. They will go well with scrambled eggs and ham. My DD is making gluten free blueberry muffins because my DDIL can't eat gluten. Or eggs. I have 2 vegetarians and 2 picky eaters. It's a difficult crowd I cook for. Everyone will be here by 9am so I might not get on the computer tomorrow. Y'all may have to carry on without me.
CHICKIE - you are one busy hostess this weekend! I hope you get help with clean up! Bill always tells me to not bother cleaning BEFORE an event. Invite enough people and they can't see the floors anyway. And there is always cleaning to do AFTER the event. In some ways he has a valid point. But I still do it. (between you and me I think he's just trying to get out of helping clean!)
IRISH - I must be a ditz! I thought Stephen was already gone to bootcamp and I was having a hard time figuring out why he was getting so much time off. They don't usually let the recruits run back to Gramma's for holidays. But then I remembered who his gramma is and figured they made an exception for him! lol! that's too funny about wrapping the gifts in newspaper when Dad worked for the wrapping paper company! We often used the Sunday funnies or road maps. I still have old maps in my wrapping paper totes.
BECKY - nice to be able to please at least one person with your cooking. If you refer to my opening paragraph, you will see that's a difficult thing to achieve in MY family! I've gotten so frustrated that I now cook to please Bill and I and everyone else can either eat around their dislikes or bring their own. lol! Tacos is a very good choice for a family like mine - they can add (or not) whatever they want.
JANA - seems like shared birthdays are a thing in your family! It is in ours, too, only we share ours with our furkids! lol! I can't believe Ethan will be 6. I keep saying that, don't I. Soon I'll be saying, "I can't believe Ethan is going to be 16"! That little pageant you are planning with the grands sounds so purrfect! My sister and I used to do the same thing and make our parents sit and watch. It was hard for two little girls to play all the parts! I'm so excited for the puppy for Christmas! I bet the puppy and kitten will be good friends after the first hissy hello. Especially since they are meeting when both are babies. I can't wait to see what they name the puppy. My BFF's son got his family a puppy last year. "Poppy" is her name. and their Christmas letter was written by Poppy. So funny!
BECCA - Sometimes it's easy to tell about twins but it's nice to have the official lab work done. My neighbor that I walk with has identical twins. They will be 24 in February. I can't tell them apart. I bet your friend loved your table topper.
The last I heard from Tina was about 7pm last night. No significant changes in her mom except a feeding tube for some nutrition. They were doing tests to try to figure out exactly what happened. I know Tina hasn't been sleeping much so I hesitate to call or even text just in case she's managed to catch a nap.
Our dinner tonite will hopefully be that chicken soup. Our friends took a while but eventually decided they DID want to go to our favorite Mexican haunt yesterday about 20 seconds after I put the lid on the crockpot. So we unplugged it and put it in the fridge. We'll cook that today. Finally.
Thank you all for all your prayers and good thoughts, they are truly helping. Found out today that Mom didn't have a heart attack, they still don't know what did happen and are still running tests as they can. They flushed her lungs out yesterday. They took her off the meds that were keeping her blood pressure up and she's doing it on her own now, they took her off of her pain meds and the sedation. She responded to pain/pressure But when they talk to her there's no response yet. They're at least hopeful now. They said as frail as she is that it'll take a little longer for her to come around so they expect her to start trying to wakeup tomorrow. We sure hope so. I'll try to get on tomorrow or let Mary and Chickie know as soon as I hear and they can share with you all. Again, thank you, we really appreciate your thoughts and prayers, please continue they are truly working.