We Had Our Christmas Celebration And West’s Birthday Celebration Yesterday

My youngest son and his family were away for two weeks over Christmas traveling in the Southwest. Then either West was sick or we were or they had football games since they are season ticket holders. We had not seen them since December 7th.

Fortunately my son from Eastern NY came out the day after Christmas and we celebrated with him. It was a wonderful visit and we were so happy to see him.

So we had our Christmas and West’s birthday celebrations yesterday. Rather than anyone cook, we went out to breakfast at our favorite Greek restaurant which we all love. The food and service was fantastic.

Then we came home here and opened money gifts, gift certificates, and emptied our stockings. West was happy with all of his candy, snacks, and money. The rest of us all had Keto snacks, liquor sample bottles(gin and vodka), and scratch off tickets. We had 4 small winners.

After relaxing for a bit, we played rummy which we love and we are very competitive. It was a lot of fun!

Last night Hubby breaded two ribeye pork chops with Italian panko and cooked them in the air fryer portion of my small oven. They were delicious. I made mashed potatoes and we had applesauce as a side.

I checked our budget numbers on Feb. 1st for January and we saved $3160. for the month. I was really happy with that since we paid a large property tax bill.

I have a busy week. I have a bill to pay today and I may start my Federal and State Income taxes. Depends on what else I have to do today like fold a load of laundry, change our sheets, and wash them.

Brunch today will be leftover dinner from last night. We only ate half of our pork chops and there are mashed potatoes and applesauce leftover. Hubby has requested spaghetti for dinner. We have not had that in a long time. I will throw in some ground beef. I always have some cooked up in portions in the freezer. I have a loaf of Italian bread in the freezer that I will pull out to defrost so that I can make garlic bread.

I am also going to hard boil a dozen eggs in my Instant Pot. They will go in salads, get eaten as snacks, and Hubby likes to make egg salad. Perhaps I will make some muffins and SF pudding.

We got a notice from our electric and gas company that they will be changing our meters to smart meters soon. That was about 6 weeks ago. We have not seen them. I am hoping they do it soon because these meters will help us keep better track of what we are using daily.

Tomorrow is our monthly Senior Citizen Discount Day at Top’s so I will be grocery shopping to get the additional 6% off on the sale items that we can use.

What are my readers up to today?