Sicilian Orange Salad Sunday

[L.Ann]

Hi Everyone. DD38 asked me if I wanted to do brunch but I said I really needed a day at home so that is what I am doing today. I finished walking with my friend. Now I need to figure out what else I need to do.

1-trash
2-FACE-submit receipts
3-help DD32 with shower

4-read for 20 minutes


Menus
Sunday-leftovers- pasta, shrimp, rice, cabbage
Monday-cheesy black bean tacos
Tuesday-sweet and spicy shrimp
Wednesday-DD32 out and left overs for me
Thursday-pasta
Friday-DD32 out and left overs for me
Saturday-sheet pan Cajun salmon with sweet potato and asparagus
Sunday-chicken and garlic tahini farro salad

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45,
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00,
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, lunch out with friends, DD32 PS 3-8, cheerleading
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, DD38 stays late for disco dance, bocce@5
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, DD32 late for Night at the Museum

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, bathroom, swish and swipe, trash
Detailed Cleaning of dining room- windex, polish furniture, wash window, wash window screen, put kennel in shed, scrub dining room floor
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands-

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for me, DD32, and dog
-walk with friend

[Peaches1000]

Good morning/afternoon!

Next:
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Office - pupa
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Extras:
-Sunday - Drink water before spinal tap
-Sunday - appt prep - SB transport/gather stuff/shower/clothes
-Sunday - DH home

-Monday - spinal tap
-Tuesday - Home PT (5/5 assessment)
-Thursday - Home nurse
-Pharmacy - 2 RXs
-DS - cat fountain/outdoor - vinegar/pest
-Toodledo tasks - Bill pay/Amex activity/DH reim recon/DH notifications/DH birth certificate

Routine:
-Laundry #2 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-Bedroom - make bed
-Kitchen - 5 min
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-Close blinds
-Make list for next day
-Update log
-Open & sort mail/file

Done:
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Fresh food for kitty
-Bedroom - pupa
-Open blinds/get water
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Medicine/vitamins
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #2 to washer
-This & that
-Laundry #2 to dryer

[Bama]

Good morning Happy Mother's Day
Kittykatt, orange in a savory dish, I’ll have to try it.
Featherball, I’ve ordered red and white clover seed on Amazon and both have come up. That buttermilk tip sounds interesting… it serves as fertilization and pest control?
French, I need to avoid the news, seems it’s always negative.
Helia, enjoy your brunch.
Dogged, enjoy your beautiful day.
LAnn, hope you have a good day at home.
Hi Peaches.

Dh got us breakfast, now I’m just lazing around until something comes to mind to do. He mentioned thrifting so maybe later… Both girls live out of town and I have not heard from either. They’re both doing their own thing and probably not even up yet. One showed me a picture of flowers she got me but we don’t have plans to get together until next weekend so I told her to enjoy them for me. I can’t have them anyway, she knows the cats would destroy them and they’re probably toxic so idk what she’s thinking lol. Silly kids.
Good news is no messes on my clean floor this am. That’s a win in my book!
Enjoy your day!

[L.Ann]

Hi Bama and Peaches.

1-diet site
2-more FACE
3-swish and swipe

4-wash window
5-wash screen and water garden
6-20 minutes of reading


Menus
Sunday-leftovers- pasta, shrimp, rice, cabbage
Monday-cheesy black bean tacos
Tuesday-sweet and spicy shrimp
Wednesday-DD32 out and left overs for me
Thursday-pasta
Friday-DD32 out and left overs for me
Saturday-sheet pan Cajun salmon with sweet potato and asparagus
Sunday-chicken and garlic tahini farro salad

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, groceries
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, dog blood test for heartworm
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, lunch out with friends, DD32 PS 3-8, cheerleading
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, DD38 stays late for disco dance, bocce@5
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5:00, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, DD32 late for Night at the Museum

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, bathroom, swish and swipe
Detailed Cleaning of dining room- windex, polish furniture, wash window, wash window screen, put kennel in shed, scrub dining room floor
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands-

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for me, DD32, and dog
-walk with friend
-trash
-FACE-submit receipts
-help DD32 with shower
-read for 20 minutes
-lunch prepped and eaten

[trissie]

just waving to everybody - we are home from the cottage and weekend is over
Probably see you all tomorrow?

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Laundry #2 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Pillows to dryer
-Kitchen - 5 min

Extras:
-Sunday - Drink water before spinal tap
-Sunday - appt prep - SB transport/gather stuff/shower/clothes
-Sunday - DH home
-Sunday - order clothes

-Monday - spinal tap
-Tuesday - Home PT (5/5 assessment)
-Thursday - Home nurse
-Pharmacy - 2 RXs
-DS - cat fountain/outdoor - vinegar/pest
-Toodledo tasks - Bill pay/Amex activity/DH reim recon/DH notifications/DH birth certificate

Routine:
-Bedroom - make bed
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-Close blinds
-Make list for next day
-Update log
-Open & sort mail/file

Done:
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Fresh food for kitty
-Bedroom - pupa
-Open blinds/get water
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Medicine/vitamins
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #2 to washer
-This & that
-Laundry #2 to dryer
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Office - pupa
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

[helia]

I hope you had a good trip, trissie. I can't believe the weekend is over.
Hi Peaches.
Enjoy the low-key day, Bama. No messes on the floor sounds great!
Nice you could walk with a friend, L Ann.
That's smart to do the laundry while everyone is out, Doggedly.

Mom was more sleepy than yesterday. Maybe she used up a lot of energy yesterday. But she did feed herself her breakfast. I helped her drink some water and an ensure.

Back home, I had a nice brunch with dh and the girls. Dd26 made homemade carrot cake cupcakes, one of my fav kinds of cake! She piped the icing so prettily on their tops! And they were super tasty!!

Coming back through. The weather is gorgeous - sunny and not too hot, 67*F. I'm going to get ready and jog next. I need to jog off that cupcake!

Next:
- back exercises
- change into jogging clothes
- jog

Later:
- make the bed
- snail mail bills
- change to jog
- jog
- spiff main bathroom
- tidy living areas
- 3:30 - 5:30 host CG2
- 5:30 - 7? host dinner?? (Only if someone else can get food.)
- after dinner clean up
- duo
- update health apps
- payroll: start prep for AAS D9
- payroll: start exam prep
- can dh help me order shelves for Mom's room? (She needs more storage space.)
- WF run?

TaDas!
- up; coffee
- email deletions + weather website
- communication: Mothers Day greetings replies, email from Mom's Dr. reply, coffee date reply
- s2s and self care
- reclaim kitchen
- darks: folded and p/a
- gathered things for Mom
- visited Mom - she was more sleepy today but did engage a little
- 11:30 - 1:00 brunch with dh and the girls
- kitchen tidied
- surfaces in living room and kitchen tidied

[FrenchFlybebe]

Waving to trissie, welcome back from the cottage, and from your weekend. I hope you enjoyed it properly while you were there.

L.Ann glad you were able to walk with your friend. Does your friend live far away or is it easy for you both to agree on a walking session like maybe "meet me in 30 minutes" ?

helia yes it's fresh fish, from local fishmarket, and fished in a "respectful" way (caring for the environment), more expensive than fish from the supermarket but it's a pleasure to eat it. I hope you can be productive and still enjoy some social events !

Bama yay for no messes to clean !

Doggedly cooking fresh fish is really easy, at least imho. You have to ask someone (fishmonger) to "empty" it first, especially if you're not used to dealing with fresh fish. Then you rinse it and put in in a baking dish with maybe a few drops of oil, and in the oven for maybe 10-15 minutes - unless it's a big fish like a 80 cm salmon from a Canadian river, then it's longer. The hard part is not the cooking but the eating, since then you have to sort out the skin and the fish bones in your plate. if you have a great fishmonger they can prepare your fish by giving you only the fish fillet, even easier to cook. Salt, pepper, and enjoy. The best way to learn to cook something is to watch a few youtube videos first (not tiktok!), then try the one that seems the most doable.
Fresh fish can be expensive unless you buy the fish at the time of year when fishermen catch plenty - it depends on the species. Or you have to have friends who enjoy fishing then it can be very cheap

Hi Peaches!

Feathers some of our plants can be very resistent I hope you get strawberries as tasty as ours. We ate some of our strawberries this week for the first time of the year.

Sunday is almost over. As always I tried to decide what I wanted to get done with my "free" time but didn't find a clear answer. Played with the kids, some gardening, some organizing... It's not wasted time anyway.

TADAs
homework with kids
things I needed to do
time for family games
gardening

TODO
make a to-do list for the week ahead
things I want to do - what are they ?
online banking thing before bed time
work on letter to DF J-- that I started weeks ago ?

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Pillows from dryer/others in
-Vacuum something
-Online shopping

Extras:
-Sunday - Drink water before spinal tap
-Sunday - appt prep - SB transport/gather stuff/shower/clothes
-Sunday - DH home
-Sunday - order clothes

-Monday - spinal tap
-Tuesday - Home PT (5/5 assessment)
-Thursday - Home nurse
-Pharmacy - 2 RXs
-DS - cat fountain/outdoor - vinegar/pest
-Toodledo tasks - Bill pay/Amex activity/DH reim recon/DH notifications/DH birth certificate

Routine:
-Bedroom - make bed
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Close blinds
-Make list for next day
-Update log
-Open & sort mail/file

Done:
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Fresh food for kitty
-Bedroom - pupa
-Open blinds/get water
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Medicine/vitamins
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #2 to washer
-This & that
-Laundry #2 to dryer
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Office - pupa
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min
-Laundry #2 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Pillows to dryer
-Kitchen - 5 min

[Doggedly]

Bama, that is so funny about your daughter buying you flowers that you can't have for Mothers Day and showing you a picture. I think that this will be one of the stories that you laugh about in future years.

Hi, L.Ann. Enjoy your relaxing day at home.


Welcome back from the cottage, trissie.


I have heard that the competition for the laundry equipment is ferocious on Sundays, helia, so I feel very lucky to have gotten both washers on my own floor. I only need one dryer, so I can share the laundry room with someone who just needs a single load.
I'm glad that you have such nice weather. I have beautiful sun, and I'm hoping that it warms up enough that I can open the patio door. Not yet...


That does sound easy, FrenchFly, and pretty close to how I am cooking the triangle fish, LOL. I am very far from the ocean and I don't think that we eat the fish in our rivers due to pollution, so we don't have great fish mongers. Our salmon, for instance, is most often the Atlantic salmon species that was fish-farmed in B.C., causing damage to the B.C. species of salmon, and then transported halfway across the continent to us. It's not the best place for seafood, LOL.

Hi, Peaches

I am going to have to play today by ear. There are things that I want to do, but if I don't get some of the organizing under control, I will run out of floor space to set up the drying racks for the laundy. I still have the handtruck set up as 4-wheeled cart piled up with food to put away. I was hoping to get to Reitman's to use my birthday coupon during their 30% off sale, but it's looking less likely.