My Weekend

Good morning! I'm loving sitting here in my pj's at 7:00 to post this morning. It's not my day off, but I don't have to go in to work until noon. Tomorrow is my day off and I can't wait.

The weekend was a working one for me, but it wasn't too bad. It actually got started with me being off on Friday. I spent the day packing up the Christmas decorations and in the afternoon I had some "help" from these two.

Tim came home from work a little earlier than normal and decided to use his Red Lobster gift card to take us out to dinner. We both had "create your own" combinations...heavy on the shrimp for me and a little bit of everything for him. Throw in those yummy cheesy-garlic biscuits and it was delicious!

We stopped by Walmart on our way home as I needed another storage box for Christmas decorations and onion powder to make ham and bean soup. Tim need some toiletries so it was all good. All the Valentines' Day stuff was out and as I was walking by I saw a matching Mickey and Minnie and snagged them for Colton and Leah.

Tim and I both worked on Saturday, so I tossed all the ingredients for ham and bean soup into the crockpot and turned it on low before heading to work. It had rained all day Friday, all night, and part of the day on Saturday and the temperature started to drop on Saturday so Tim was wet, cold, and working in mud. He decided to quit early. By the time I got home he'd already taken a hot shower, was in his shorts, and stretched out on the sofa.

I had worried all day about the soup in the crockpot, wondering if the beans would truly be soft enough. They were! The soup was perfect and it was so easy to do. I will be making it this way from now on! Since Tim was on the sofa, my plans to invite Mom and John to share supper went out the window. Instead, I took them a big container for their supper. John declared it delicious. 

From the website linked above.

The Christmas boxes didn't get put away on Saturday because of Tim being tuckered out and because of the rain. We store the boxes in the shed out back and since it was still raining and had been raining for over 24 hours the yard was a mess, anyway.

Oh, I also got another letter from my biological father on Saturday. That kind of surprised me since I hadn't gotten around to writing back after his last note. I was even more surprised, stunned actually, to find another check in his letter. It seems he feels obligated to catch me up to the same level of gifts he's given his other children. Wow. He likes to share his philosophies with me, which I don't entirely agree with, but I have to say I am getting more anxious to meet this man who so easily gives away large sums of money to a virtual stranger. I want to thank him for blessing me in person...and who knows, maybe he will see through me that there is a God and he's not the enemy. I hope so.

I worked on Sunday. Tim got all the Christmas boxes out to the shed and took down the twin beds in the spare bedroom so our son-in-law can assemble the new bed and trundle bed for me. After that, Tim went out to pick up a few things and get himself a haircut. I came home to an empty house. I didn't know where he was or when he'd be back...he never leaves notes and he forgot his phone...so I just ordered pizza and wings for supper.

It sure was good to get home yesterday. It had been a rough day in the dementia unit. One of the residents refused to take their meds and they were nasty, screaming, and had to have someone with them every moment of the day. That really wears on you and it also gets everyone else in the unit worked up so we had some other behaviors going on. I'm not back in there until Thursday so I hope it will have calmed down, but with the full moon coming up this weekend that might be wishful thinking.

This morning I'm going to finish putting the house back to rights now that the boxes are all gone. Looking forward to that!

Set your minds that this will be a good day and then build on it, my friends. Make this first full week of 2020 an amazing one!