Happy 2024 🎉

I certainly hope it’s going to be a happy 2024- who knows though…..the last few years have been pretty rough.  

But I’m an optimist so I’ll be looking for happy days ahead.  

I made a new to do list for this week.  

To celebrate the new year coming in,  we watched a livestream from Branson last night.  It was by the Haygoods and Clay Cooper and team.  

It was really good and certainly cheaper and easier than an actual trip.  

At midnight,  they had a big ballon drop that looked really impressive on screen. 

Today,  our daughter and family came for our traditional new years lunch, based on old Southern traditions 

Black eyed peas, cabbage, rice, cornbread muffins and sausage.  

JJ is growing but I still think he and the New Year elf, bought years ago at a thrift store, resemble each other.  

Goals for 2024 

My list is short and realistic for what I could accomplish 

Daily I plan to 

Read Bible

Sew anything 

Walk 

I want to do  Casual couponing 1 or 2 deals a week 

Last week I went to CVS and got a giant jug of Tide for about $9

I plan to do small deals on products we use.  But it will be very casual.  I thought about going to Dollar General Saturday when they have the $5/25 coupon but I didn’t feel like leaving home.  

Continue decluttering and downsizing home possessions - I’ve done a lot over the last 2 years but would still like to do more. 

Pay off Avalon My husband couldn’t drive his pickup anymore (back issues) so he traded it for a comfy sedan the end of the summer.  There is a small loan with a low interest rate for the difference.  We’ve been paying extra and hope to pay it off in the spring.  

Double savings account at the credit union 

As weather permits- get back yard straightened up 

❤️ Rhonda 

New to do list and new stove

Hello everyone

It’s Tuesday but it feels like Monday so I wrote out a new to do list

It’s not real long as this isn’t a normal week but some  things need done 

My husband helped and we got quite a bit done. 

 It’s not checked off but the laundry is also finished and the Christmas decorations are packed away.  

Our decorations were up a long time this year.  

Supper was an easy meal- I used carrots, potatoes and fresh spinach that all were due to be used.  

I baked the chicken and carrots. 

About a month ago,  our bottom oven quit working and then about a week before Christmas, the top oven quit working.  

Also, the controls on the top were looking like they were on their last leg too.  

(Out stove was about 10 years old and looked like a normal stove but it had 2 ovens.  I used it so much,  I think I just wore it out) 

So my husband went stove shopping.  Our local Lowes doesn’t have much in stock but he found one that was on sale.  

It’s a Samsung and so far it is cooking so nice.  

No photos but it baked 3 batches of cookies beautifully.  

It baked 2 batches of muffins when grands were here for a sleepover. 

Chocolate chip muffins and Betty Crocker’s French Puffs 

I’m very thankful to have it.  

My only complaint is the timer sounds a little like the music from the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 🙄


❤️Rhonda