Productive Day

I had one of those days where I had energy to organize and clean and bake.  I organized a new spot for the hats and scarves by the front door.  I asked Michael not to say anything until tomorrow  because I was too excited about it today in case he doesn't like it.  I asked him to give it at least a 24 hour chance before commenting.

Then I have this pumpkin cheesecake bar recipe that looks really yummi I want to try sometime.  However it has multiple pricey ingredients and requires a food processor which we don't have.   I debated trying to do it anyway, but then just decided to made a simpler dessert recipe I like with pumpkin/coconut/dates.  That recipe didn't use the entire can of pumpkin and happened to have just enough left over to make some pumpkin cranberry scones.

I'm taking Michael's daughters for a personal shopping session at the thrift store for their Xmas present tomorrow.  We tried this last year and it went really well.  There is a winter weather advisory for tomorrow so I asked the shopper if she wanted to reschedule for later this week, however she is going out of town so we're going to try for tomorrow.  The forecast does at least look better now than earlier today.

And I have a plan on New Years Day to teach my friend's family how to play Catan (board game).  I played once with her kids last month and then they asked for the game for Christmas.  I volunteered to come over and teach my friend, because reading the instructions on that game would be overwhelming, and I enjoy teaching people.  When I taught my cousin Ashley last week she said, "Tammy you are a really good teacher.  You don't give too much information. You wait until it's needed."

And it has been so nice the last month around here.  It was hard to know how much of the stress and tension we felt since I moved in was related to us or related to the lack of job situation.  And we still can't say entirely of course, however, it has felt so much lighter around here this month.

And to that I say AMEN!