Good morning!
Have a rather lazy morning, at least now. I had to get up extra early to make biscuits and sausage gravy for Earl to take to his work breakfast today. A lady at his work had a roll of Blue and Gold sausage she contributed for me to make it with. So, I make drop biscuits using a combination of palm shortening and butter. Today I used a bit more butter than usual wanting them to be extra good...however, that backfired and some of the butter melted out when baking and went on the bottom of the oven, causing a bunch of smoke. This kicked up my asthma so I've used both inhalers. If it doesn't get better soon, I will get out the nebulizer and do a treatment.
Anyway, I rarely go back to bed, but did this morning. Not to sleep, but because I was cold. So I'm sitting here on my computer. Watched an episode of House Hunters International while I ate my breakfast. Max is playing a game on Earl's kindle next to me. The other kids are watching My Little Pony on Amazon in the living room...I think we're calling it Christmas break today.
Tonight is our homeschool Christmas party. I think I will take sausage cheese balls (it was a 2 lb roll of sausage and the lady told Earl to keep what we didn't need for the gravy because she is leaving to go out of town) and caramel corn. It's a "finger food" party. Maddy was also invited to a spur of the moment teen party last night. A family from the homeschool group sent out an invitation at 2 yesterday and had a bunch of kids over to roast hot dogs, make s'mores, and sing around their fire pit. They are a nice group of kids and she had a great time. I'm glad to have her make some nice friends...it was hard when her best friend moved this past July. Her friend's mom was my good friend as well, and we think a lot alike. They lived in a very safe historic area on post and both girls would go down to the creek in the woods and literally play outside...I much prefer this to silliness and talk about boys, lol.
The cold front came through last night and we're sitting at about 33. Unfortunately, we're not getting any snow or winter weather though. They are saying we'll get rain starting tonight. It will sure be cold rain!
The presents the kids ordered for each other should come today or tomorrow, so I will help them get those wrapped. We are waiting till the last minute to wrap their tablets as Earl has been messing with them and I've been adding books/games (though I guess I can still do that with them wrapped!). These were just under $70 and Earl and I both think they are nicer than the kindle. Well, the tablet itself is about the same, but with the keyboard case and stand they are nicer. He put the kindle app on them as well as google, so we can add all the free (or paid) kindle books. And he got an inexpensive stylus in a coordinating color for each one. We did red tablet and case for Micah, blue for Maddy, purple for Mallory, and pink for Morgan. So it will be easy to tell them apart or who left theirs laying around. We decided it would be best to get them all ready to go so they can unwrap and use them immediately, instead of having to wait for them to charge and have things added.
Better get moving!
Have a great day!
Catherine