Thursday, Home again!

    

Here is a five generation picture of Hubs with his mom and D#2 and the kids.  This was taken right before we put them on the plane to fly home.  We had a wonderful time with family and I am happy to be home.  Even though we came home to 8-9 inches of snow and Hubs could not get the snowblower to start.  Although it started right up earlier this year.  Knowing him he probably left something on or did not do something right like he did with our other lawn things.  He just can't remember how to operate things and breaks them.  I was told by our repair man that the last two repair jobs on lawn things were hubs fault.   I will be really irritated is we take this in and it is because he left gas or something in it that should have been drained.  Ugh!

Hubs dad was worse than ever and I really worry about his mom.  When we got there I started immediately making  prime rib vegetable soup.  She will usually fuss and come into the kitchen to see what you are doing and get involved and she did not ask me a word.  I went in and out to get things out of the storage in the basement.  I made a large pot of this soup/stew and it was delicious.  Then after supper I cleaned the kitchen, which she usually will not let you do. She said it was so nice not to have to clean up and to be waited on.  This has never happened.  She also admitted to me that she sometimes does not cook as taking care of dad, is just to exhausting.  We had long suspended this.  By evening she is just too tired to cook.

She loves the meals Hub's sister and I prepared at Christmas and has been using about one every other week.  They last her about three days.  I left enough soup for them to eat this evening and she froze another portion. Plus the good bone broth will give her some energy. When our dog Roscoe came into the room dad asked if dogs were now being allowed in the Temple.  We told him he was at home.  He thought he was at Temple. He had mom up again last night and I got up and got him back to bed. Hubs is useless at this as he is deaf and with out hearing aids he hears nothing.  Heck with hearing aids he hears what he wants to.

I was hoping the shop would be picking up, and I do have clients lined up for tomorrow.  But with the snow most people just stay put.  In fact one of the roads to our house is closed down for snow.  Oh well I will have time to unpack and get things caught up around here.

Thrifty Thursday:

1. saved all my change while we were gone and put it in my bank when we got home.

2. Saved my 5's from the trip  now have $380.00

3. saved the $1,$5,$10,$20 last week for this week

4. uploaded all receipts from travel to Fetch.

5. used an app to find the cheapest gas, by the way it went up over 20 cents a gallon over the last week.

6. Found a pair of brand new Coach sunglasses at a rest stop on top of the toilet paper holder.  They were this years model and not a scratch on then.  Both daughter and I went through the parking lot trying to find the owner, but they were long gone.  I gifted them to my Eldest and she was thrilled.

7. Found .26 at the same rest stop on the ground

8. found another quarter on the floor of daughters car. Sorry mine now!

9. packed hard boiled eggs and cold pizza and chicken for drive down so no eating out.

10. Ate a good breakfast at mom's and split a salted nut roll with hubs and that was it for our way home, no stopping to eat.

11. took left over prime rib that I knew daughter would not use and made soup for Hub's folks.

12.Filled one of my 100 envelop challenge when I got home with left over trip money.

13. Picked up 4 loss leaders at Albertsons, butter limit 2, frozen veg limit 2, romaine salad limit 2,one doz eggs .76 limit one.  that should do it for groceries until next week. 

I want to get so many things done today.

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim