Today was a good day. This morning I woke up before the alarm at 915am and laid there listening to my husband wake up and call his underling. The phones at work were down from the day before so he called her on her cell. When he did that, he found out that he wasn't working the later shift, going in at 1030am, he was supposed to have been at work to open the shop at 9am. So within a span of 10 minutes, we were showered, dressed and out of the house in the car! The normally 15 - 20 minute drive took 10 minutes. I got him dropped off and then headed to my therapy session with Steve. I caught all green lights and managed to make it to my therapy session with 10 minutes to spare.
In talking with Steve, we reviewed all that I have accomplished in the last several months: starting to vacuum the house, joining the Red Hat Society and going out on social events with them, making almost all the Christmas presents, working at the Zoo. Having a healthy relationship with my daughter. We discussed how to deal with our adult children, that sometimes they just want to vent and don't really want our advice so we should ask them before giving it to them. Hi daughter, would you like to know what I think? Things like that. Wished him Merry Christmas and left.
Had to go to the bank and make a deposit. Yeah! Some of the money we have been expecting is starting to come in. And across the parking lot from the bank is a new Goodwill so of course I had to go in and check it out. I found some great deals and bought a couple of pairs of pants (without trying them on until I got home so one pair has to go back), a shirt and something for my hubby for Christmas. I also got some books to read since we have fines at the library we have to pay before we can check out any more books. After I finished with Goodwill, I went to Walmart to buy a painting tray with a roller and a paintbrush for my parents and a gift card for $25 for them to get a gallon of paint. My parents will be washing walls and painting after the first of the year in their house. So I called and talked to my mom and told her hubby and I are looking at painting our house after the first of the year and were wondering where they were going to get their paint from and what they were doing. Mom told me about TSP, a cleaner that you use to wash your walls with and then you don't need a primer, like Kilz. I know my parents are giving my sister and her family a VHS/dvd player and a bunch of VHS tapes so we decided to give them VHS tapes too of older movies that we think they will like, some kids movies and some stuff for the older kids.
When i got back home, I rested for awhile and then started making my chicken pot pies. We baked the 4 pack of leg quarters a couple of days ago so all I had to do was bone the chicken, separating the skin and less choice parts of the chicken meat for the dogs. I boiled a big pot of water and added in all the chicken fat and skin to boil for a little while, to get the fat for the flavoring. After it had boiled for about 15 minutes, I took the skin out and added in a lot of chicken base. Once that was melted and the water tasted like chicken stock, I added in all the veggies and all the meat. I mixed a flour and water mixture then added it to the pot. Then I gently boiled it until it thickened. When my hubby came home, I ladled the guts of the chicken pot pie into my individual bean pot and put a Grands biscuit on top. Then into the oven they went for 15 minutes to cook the biscuit and they were done! I always make a big pot of the chicken pot pie guts and freeze a lot of it for easy dinners down the road. I usually eat one bean pot and my hubby eats two. I pre-measure it before putting it into the freezer so I will know how many to pull out later.
I got hubby's presents wrapped and put under the tree. The rest of the night we baked some breads and brownies for tomorrow and rested.
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