3 THINGS FOR MONDAY

Good morning!!!  I'm off today, and was awoken by the lovely Darla and then by George, so I guess it's a sign I should be up!!!  LOL!!!  Darla, that's twice this weekend you woke me!!!  LOL!!!  But it's okay, I love you!  And love you for the offer of the Ravens tix, but can you imagine what that cold rain must've felt like yesterday?  ICK!  Dad's poor bones could've never taken it!

Today, I'm grateful for:

1.  My lovely OH friends who are my IRL sisters, including my newest, Bernice.  What would I do without you women?  You sustain me.  And keep me from jumping to conclusions and flying off of ledges!

2.  George is home.  This week, we're going furniture and paint shopping, and hell, I don't care if we're shopping for grass seed as long as I get to see him!!!  LOL!!

3.  Did I mention I'm off today?  I was off on Friday and am off tomorrow to go to the doctor's with Dad (for the final word on his cancer follow-up), so I called the boss yesterday and asked if I could be off today, too.  I'm going to bake cranberry sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies today and maybe wrap a few gifts.  Then, I just work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and I am off for the rest of the year!!!  I'm FINALLY in the Christmas spirit!!!  Whew!

Have a great day everyone!

Hugs,

Tia

*HUGS*  LY girl!  MUAH!

I'm so glad George is home and you are spending some QT with him this week.  You deserve it!  You're better than me with the baking though...I'm going to bake my honey a couple of loaves of banana bread (if the stupid banans ever ripen) and tomorrow night I'm going to make some ambrosia for our work luncheon, and that. is. it.

Today...

1.  My lovely friends....what would I do without you guys????

2.  Work from home day!  I can finally catch up on the Netflix movies I have sitting here (I spent the weekend with my Mom and then wrapping gifts and working on stuff to sell on my etsy shop).  This morning, as I work on my reports, I'm watching the soloist.

3.  My hubby - I had the first instance of something getting stuck this weekend and it wasn't pretty...he did his best to comfort me, and I adore him for it.

4.  Sugar free blackberry preserves, sweetened only with natural juice.  OMG so good, and the first sugar free thing that doesn't make me dump.  Hallelujah!

You enjoy your day off lady!  I'm taking a long weekend next month to go to Gettysburg with Bob and I can't wait!

Me, too, B!!  We had a bit of a "Come to Jesus" as Ang would put, it this a.m., and he understands some of the rules a bit better!!!  LOL!!!  Thank YOU again. 

I would love to sit and watch movies today, but the cookies are a-calling!  This weekend, I'm baking with KB - we'll do chocolate chip, sugar and peanut butter, and I usually pick a new one every year, so I'm not sure what else we'll do.

STHUCK?  That sucks!!  But...you're no longer a wergin!

I will shoot you an email shortly!

LY,

T

Nope...no wergin here...LOL...but I am all sweet and innocent!

And technically, I'm working...but I have the TV on to keep me company.  I'll get to baking this weekend...sigh...but only banana bread...and maybe a batch or two of cookies.  I think I'm going to do some SF cookies this year...made with cream cheese and sugar free preserves.  They actually have protein in them!

Share the recipe, please, for the s/f cookies AND the banana bread.  Mom keeps trying different recipes for the bread and can't find one she likes yet.

Of course you're all sweet and innocent - you're MY friend, after all.

I'll email you the recipe tonight. 

Hey B!  Do you have any papaya enzymes?  You can get them at Trader Joe's or GNC or Vitamin Shoppe.  You chew some when you've got something stuck...or close to it...and they help break it down so it can pass more quickly!  And they taste good too!!!

Tia, good luck at the doc's!

1. productive weekend. I think about 12 hrs of cooking that resulted in kielbasa soup, paprika vinaigrette, mushroom cheese stuffing for the Friday dinner chickens, ricotta lmeon cookies, crockpot chili, cornbread, macaroni and veggies for today's potluck ... oye ve it's a good thing I like being in the kitchen.

2. Jeff: he gave up his naps both days this weekend to run errands with me.

3. Gecko's in Baltimore for the wonderful Sunday brunch with unlimited mimosas! mmmm

Thanks, Sylvie!  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's just a reaffirmation that it was an infection and NOT cancer. 

I LOVE those productive cooking weekends - I hate having to cook during the week, and if I can get a lot done at once, so much the better!!

Awww....Jeff sounds like such a good guy!!

*perk!* Mimosas?  Love 'em!

Have a great day!

Hugs,

Tia

They even brought them out in those huge pint glasses lol For a $14 brunch, I think my 2 mimosas were enough.