My meal planning has been going well so far!! I have 2 weeks worth of meals on my list and I've only gone to the store twice since the beginning of the year!!
Tonight we are having macaroni and cheese in the crockpot with some roasted broccoli or cauliflower on the side, I have not decided yet which vegetable I'm going to use, will all depend on my mood closer to dinnertime.
The next one I did was this Mickey & Minnie one and it went very fast because while the custom one was square diamonds this one was rounds and that goes so much faster for me!! It turned out super cute and I'll probably hang it in my office or craft room, not sure yet!!
Last night I read this entire book in one night, I just could not put it down and I finished at 1:07am!! Thank goodness for being retired, that's for sure! It was a great story with a couple of new characters to the series and of course all of my old favorites from Moonbeam Bay!! Looking forward to the next one in this series that is due out March 22nd.
Oh my gosh it was so cold today!!! I think the high was maybe 18 degrees but the wind chills were below 0!! This is the time of year when it can be brutally cold like this that I am so grateful to have a home and heat because I can't imagine being homeless and having to be on the street, I pray for all of those people that don't have a place to rest their head at night.
I've started reading now my 5th book since the beginning of the year!
I have done some purging in my craft room of supplies that I don't use anymore and just trying to make a few dollars on Ebay and whatever I don't sell I am giving away to friends or donating to the local thrift store, Savers.
Finally, I wanted to say today that it's been 4 years since my spine surgery and I am so grateful to still be doing well!
Reading goals for the year
Now that I am retired I've started to read more and more and really enjoying the quiet time! In 2021 I know I read tons of books!
I've started a new series by an author named Rachel Hanna and I'm enjoying it so far, they are very quick reads and I love being able to follow the same characters over the course of several books!
Well those best laid plans don't always work out the way you think! I started off 2021 hoping to blog more but I just logged on and noticed I never posted another blog entry last year at all so I'm not going to sit here and type out that I'm going to blog in 2022!! I have continued to journal as much as possible however so that was a positive for last year!
The coronavirus pandemic is still very much affecting us over 2 years later!! The current variant called Omicron is so contagious that here where I live 1 in every 4 people tests positive for it!! 25% rate of positivity is crazy!!! I am staying home more and not exposing myself!
I have started meal planning so that I can shop once and have meals for an entire week plus some days of leftovers!! Tonight we are having turkey chili. I will freeze some and then we will have chili hot dogs later in the week.
