Hello and HAP HAP HAPPY MONDAYYYYYYY….
We got a wee bit of snow last night and the flakes are still falling. Weeeeeee! It looks like I’ll be in the kitchen making soup, biscuits and hot chocolate today while my personal snow plow guy is outside clearing our driveway and making a race track around the backyard for the puggle princess with the snowblower.
I don’t know, but I’m thinking it’s a stay in your pajamas kind of day today…. what do you think? 🙂 🙂 🙂 Yes, yes it is!
Pork choooooops and applesauce. The HH tried a new homemade version of Shake and Bake and both of us weren’t that impressed with it. So you know, the experiment will continue.
Winter soup made with rotisserie chicken, white beans, frozen spinach, carrots and peas. Yummy in my tummy it was.
He won’t stop making meatballs.
I must have been channeling Mrs. HB because I made our favorite quinoa salad for lunch on Saturday and an hour later a birthday package arrived.
Fair scone mix, a birthday cake candle {one of my favorite scents} Dove chocolates, hob nob nail glass canisters {weeeee!} CHAP STICK and DENTAL PICKS, a gardening magazine and Where’d You Go Bernadette. Have you read it? Mrs. Hillbilly says it’s really good and that I have to read it.
Birthday dinner at our favorite pizza place.
Market Basket $102.31 Wowza!
I must say I was a little shocked when I say the total on the register screen.
But then I did some quick math {$12 for the fancy chocolate bars I needed for my cake, a nice roast, fancy crackers, supplies for a wowie zowie party platter, a rotisserie chicken and so on}.
It’s fun to splurge now and again, don’t you think?
And that chocolate cheesecake the HH made for my birthday, wowza! It was good. Not only was it good, but I think he did a marvelous job for his first ever, baked from scratch cheesecake. I know why people have house husbands now.
Bahahahaha Bahahahahaha.
I absolutely love that my husband works from home now, and I can’t imagine ever going back to the more traditional everybody has to leave the house to go to work system. It’s a dream I tell you, getting help with the laundry, having him walk Lucy and the home cooked meals…. don’t even get me started! 🙂 🙂 🙂
It’s funny, the world we live in now, for better or worse, is so different than when we all first started out on our own, isn’t it?
I mean seriously, who would have thought 20 years ago grocery stores would be selling single shrink wrapped organic peppers for $1.99 each? If you would have told anyone that 20 years ago they would have thought you were off your rocker.
The world…. it’s a changing. And that’s all I have to say about that. The joy of a good home cooked meal though, that will never change.
Have a great Monday everyone and stay warm.
~Mavis
Total Spent on Groceries This Week $102.31
- Total Spent on Groceries in March $102.31
- Total Spent on Groceries in February $220.92
- Total Spent in January on Groceries $41.19
- Total Spent So Far on Groceries in 2019 $262.11 {Goal is to average $150 – $175 a month for the year}
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Molly Jo says
Just finished Where’d You Go Bernadette last week. Fun read! Your birthday dinner salad and that OMG cheese cake look like perfection to me for a celebration. Nice job hubby!!
Katelyn says
That book is SO FUNNY! I read it on a plane and people were legit looking at me because I was laughing so hard. I imagine being familiar with Seattle will make it even better. Happy Birthday!
Barbara from Oregon says
Mavis, you are definitely living your best life now with the HH!! You chose the perfect time to make a major change. I love your snow pics and that party platter is so artistically done! Made me want to dive in and enjoy! You have a true friend in Mrs. HB! What a fun birthday package!!
Deborah says
Grocery prices are getting higher and higher. And gas prices? They go up every week or so.
You do have a good husband! Isn’t it great to have a hubby that cooks? Mine does, and he is awesome at it. I won’t let him do laundry though. Everything goes in a load. Jeans, socks, and everything else.
Laura Van Horn says
The book is great, but it is maybe even better appreciated if you moved to the Seattle area from somewhere else. I am not sure that locals here really get how different it is here from most other places. Sometimes I am okay with it, and sometimes I get annoyed. That is pretty much the gist of the book and the line that the author walks as well. And, not for nothing, it is laugh-out-loud funny. Always appreciated, especially in the winter :).
I am curious, though, I find those platters really hard to eat from, though they look really nice. I end up putting all the items in different dishes to enjoy without cross-contamination (so I can put the leftovers back without them going bad). Am I wrong? Would love to know. Thanks!!
Marybeth says
I made a snack platter(inspired by you) when friends came over this week. They all said how good everything was. I need to make them more often. I’m having the leftovers for lunch.
jennifer says
The packaging that companies put on produce sometimes just amazes me. You’d think it’d be cheaper for the company’s bottom line to not shrink wrap veggies. In any case, you can always voice your opinion to the store or produce manager, and maybe the manager will shift the purchases away from that kind of waste.
SadbutTrue says
The organics are wrapped to keep put the bug srpay used in the trucks, warehouse, and stores
Julia Park Tracey says
OOOOOOH. That makes sense. I loathe and despise plastic wrap in all forms but now I finally understand. Thank you for explaining.
Marie says
You truly have an outstanding HH! Making the transition from long hours away to always being home is not easy for either of you. I “think” you have enough land now to find your space if life inside during the winter makes you restless……
Denise says
I loved “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” and did you know they made it into a movie? I can’t wait to see it! Book was a delight.
And Happy Belated Birthday, Mavis. Hope your day was filled with family, friends and lots of fun!
Michèle from Oregon says
Market Basket still carries Wensleydale Cheese with Cranberries!!! I’ve been grieving the fact that Costco stopped carrying it after the holidays…surely this is worth living in New England for! “Cheeeeese Grommit!”
Terri M Lindeke says
I am so fortunate that my husband is the main cook. AND he does most of the grocery shopping. I am the one that has to make the regular trips to Costco and the grocery stores to get all the things he would not think of. It works for us.
It must be such a joy for your husband not to be in the rat race of getting up and “going” to work every day. I loved when I had my own business and worked out of my home office. I had a regular day to go and see clients.. had to remember to take days off and not work 24/7..
Enjoy
Beth says
Happy Belated Birthday Mavis!! Your cheesecake looks scrumptious!!! My dream is to find a work at home job so we can move out of the high tax state of CT. Maine or NH is where we would like to go. Give Lucy hugs, just love that little Puggle.
Alison says
Happy birthday!!!! Love the good & plenty on that awesome looking munchie tray!!
Mrs. Mills says
Hi Mavis, I wish my Dad was still alive so I could show him the bottled water people buy and also buying rats for pets. He wouldn’t believe it. Born in 1914 rats meant terror to a farm. Anyway, hope you had a good birthday. I suggest that you freeze a lot of yellow and green wax beans, we are still eating ours, so yummy.
Just steamed with lemon pepper.
Take care, enjoy the snow and hammy days like I am then six months of work…sigh. Well after that Muffy should be leaving both of us!
Jennifer Meyer says
Chapstick and flossers!!! Mrs HB is a riot! Happy belated Birthday Mavis!
Helen in Meridian says
Yes,if you notice Mrs. HB sent TWO chapsticks and a whole pkg of flossers. What a great memory of all your debates about the little things in life. Again Happy Birthday Mavis.
Heather says
I have to ask. Did HH offer to cook or did you ask him? My husband has been home for a few months, but I feel like I am bothering him when I ask him to help me with something. I would love my husband to cook and plan the meal for at least one night a week, besides buying pizza from the Take N Bake shop.
Mavis Butterfield says
I think he must have offered to make dinner one night and then just kept on cooking. Like anything, I suppose they either like doing it or they don’t. Don’t feel bad for asking. You’ll know soon enough if he enjoys cooking or take out better. 🙂