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 

Merry Christmas 2023

Merry Christmas everyone 

We had a very fun family gathering at our daughter’s home.  

We had food from Fuzzy’s Tacos. 

We had an all ages gift exchange and I think we will always do it that way.

It was so fun to the 91 year old open a remote control car and for the 6th grade boy to open a box of Tide and kitchen towels.  

In the end, all gifts were swapped and traded and everyone left happy.  

Lots of cookies were eaten too 😋 

Jeff and Rhonda 2023 

Monday- a new week, a new list

Hello everyone 

I’m ready to be back to a routine -as much a routine as is possible this time of year anyway- so I wrote out a new to do list for the week, 

I reset the guest room with some flannel sheets and it’s looking Christmasy in there 

I mixed up 3 kinds of cookie dough

Mexican wedding cookies, oatmeal cookies and sugar cookies- all are Betty Crocker recipes. 

I forgot to stir the pecans into the oatmeal recipe so I’ll use the chopped pecans for something else. 

I didn’t want to bake them this morning but I shaped 2 of the doughs into balls.  

All the dough is chilling in the fridge until I’m ready to bake.  

4 of the grands were here over the weekend which is why the guest room needed freshen up.  P

Elizabeth made this cute creation with Perler beads. 

The 3 boys said they wanted to do origami but they mostly made “ninja fighting “ instruments with paper 

Meals for the last week have all been pretty simple and cooked at home.

Beef stew with cheese and crackers 

One day I was gone in the afternoon so I made some smothered cube steaks in the crockpot and had the potatoes ready to cook at supper time 

Big salads are almost always served - my husband really likes salad 🥗 

One of the breakfasts when the grands were here- biscuits with scrambled eggs and gravy, and chocolate chip muffins 

I got a spiral ham for about $9 with Kroger delivery.  My husband smoked it and I served with a salad, green beans and box mac and cheese.  

It was a lot of ham! Some was diced and froze to add to breakfast eggs or casseroles.  Some will be used for sandwiches.  



I imagine most of you are busy with the same kind of things I am

Hope you all have a smooth and productive week 

❤️🎄❤️

Rhonda