Monday, Money saving madness

     It was a whirl wind weekend.  Mom's friends came in about 1 p.m. and I had a two layer carrot cake ready with tea.  I remember my mom and her friend always eating carrot cake with tea.  I think they all liked it as

this is all that is left.  They took mom out to diner Saturday evening and  I took the opportunity to go and get my nails done.  They were so bad.  With all the cleaning and canning I had ripped every cuticle and had torn hangnails on every finger.  The nail tech was appalled.  But this is what happens when I don't keep the nails up.  My skin is so thin from the medication I take it just rips and bleeds and then I pick and pull at them.  What a mess.  When I arrived home Hub's was hungry and was hinting to go out.  I was just to tired so I made him a sandwich.  Yeah I am that kind of wife.
Sunday:

    I rushed home from church today to make a large breakfast for mom's company.  I made raised Belgian waffles, eggs, sausage and bacon. Hub's had to take care of a band concert so I grabbed two small muffins out of the freezer and nuked them along with 4 sausages and threw him out the door.   
We all enjoyed a huge breakfast and then visited for a few more hours.  I knew as soon as they left mom would go into a funk and become a brat and she did.  I was booking on about 6 hours of sleep the last two days, as I was up so much with my wrist Friday night and then mom had a bad night Saturday and had me up twice.  I needed a nap so I got mom downstairs to rest and she cried and fussed like a two year old for about 3 hours, I finally gave up and went into the shop and pulled out white fabric to make her a Santa Lucia costume for her upcoming Swedish demonstration at her women's club.  It only took me about 1/2 hour but it distracted her enough that I was able to get her out of her funk.

I also made some adjustments on the Lucia crown that is lit with 5 candles.  Then I took her upstairs to watch me clean the messed up kitchen from breakfast.( We have a young friend's daughter playing Lucia.)










 
  
While I was cleaning I had her mix up some cinnamon and applesauce  and knead it into a good pliable constancy.  Then I rolled out enough Dahla horses and ornaments to make treat bags for the woman's club.  These smell so good and will be attached to a bag of Swedish cookies.  A Dahla horse is a traditional carved horse you see all over Sweden.  Thank you Cheryl at Cheryl's frugal corner for this recipe and idea. Mom was tired enough after this that I could put her to bed.  Thank goodness.

Monday Money saving madness

1. purchased two more bottles of oil for storage on a stock up deal.
2. made all meals from scratch, we ate potato soup for three days.
3.Made up jam with fruit taken out of freezer.
4. purchased a ham for freezer stock  at .89 a lb.
5.rewashed plastic bags and plastic containers to reuse.
6. started a second set of art pillow covers with scraps from shop
7. took stock of all stocking stuffers and gifts I have purchased so far for Christmas, just have candy left to buy for stockings.
8. Took a couple of bags of  clutter to St Vinnies.  Too much stuff wastes time and money.
9.  Did not fall for Hub's attempt to go out to eat:)
10. used coupons at Jo Anns for purchases
11. made mom put back two packages of frozen roll dough and told her I would make fresh for her woman's club.

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

Kim