2 big meals and a crazy shopping event

Hello 

To start off the year, we cooked our traditional meal Black Eyed Peas, rice, cabbage, ham, and cornbread.

There were seven of us here to eat

Today,  I made breakfast for 5 as 3 grands slept over.  

15 year old Elizabeth spent most of her time here working on a little scrapbook project for a friends birthday. 

we weren’t sure how to put the pages together in a book and I had read online that Hobby Lobby’s Christmas clearance went to 90% off this morning.

so we went to Hobby lobby in hopes of finding something to bind the pages together or to get a small photo album to put the pages in. 

They opened at 9 AM

We got there at 11 AM

I think all these serious clearance shoppers got there at 9 AM.  

I kind of glanced at what was left in the Christmas aisles, there was not much left and a good bit of what was there was broken. 

The lady at the front of this line had at least three carts of Christmas clearance.

By the time we checked out, she had been loading her purchases into her little car for a while. And apparently all of her purchases would not fit in her car as she was pushing one of the shopping carts still full of her  clearance purchases back into Hobby lobby. We guess she was going to try to leave them there while she went home and unloaded her car.

That’s a lot of shopping!

All we bought was one Purse size photo album.

And if I ever think I need 90% off Hobby lobby Christmas Clearance, I will plan ahead and get there at 9 AM. 

But I probably will not ever go there again to Hobby lobby on January 2, the day they traditionally mark everything 90% off

So, did any of y’all go out bargain shopping?

If you did, I hope you found what you wanted

I don’t think I needed a single thing on the Christmas markdowns anyway.  

❤️Rhonda 

first day of 2026

hello everyone

Don’t we all want to be more organized in 2026?

When I cleaned out the junk pantry two days ago, I found these paper sheets that I bought at Dollar tree.

I separated them and put each one on a piece of pretty paper. I also put our freezer inventory On some pretty paper.

Then, I used magnets to hold them to the refrigerator

This should help keep appointments and groceries on hand at the front of my mind, planning ahead to make the best use of time and groceries we already have

I used part of the paper. I cut off when I mounted the calendars and wrote out my grocery list.

I needed to do three errands yesterday and I stopped at Aldi to purchase groceries.

Kroger is going to stop delivering to Oklahoma and I am really going to miss it.

But I plan on using up the groceries we have and hopefully having some low spend grocery months for the first several in 2026.

New Year’s Eve is not a good time to go shopping. I got there about 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

So many of the shelves were practically empty, it looked like that store had been shopped hard!

there was one young man running a register, and I did not see any other workers in the store.


I mostly got what was on my list. I had to substitute the type of lettuce I wanted and I added cherries and strawberries because grandchildren will be here and they really like them. They were a good price too.

Our New Year’s Day tradition is to eat Black Eyed Peas, pork, cabbage and cornbread. My husband is going to smoke a spiral ham that I got on sale From Kroger for $.99 a pound. He also made some pimento cheese stuffed jalapeño poppers to smoke while he smokes the ham. He’s never made them before and he didn’t have a recipe. I imagine they will be very good

❤️Rhonda