Good morning
Halloween... we had 160 trick or treaters. Grandkids had a blast (pictures down below). DH helped out at townhall for decorations as festivities were there mostly (hot-dogs, hot beverages, games, marshmallows)
Went in to work Thursday instead of Tuesday and dh came to town for errands while I worked. He bought a new sound bar... now to find someone to install it.
Friday we told ds we would pick up grandkids from daycare and brought them here for supper and for a sleepover. Brought them back to their house Saturday at 10:30 as ddil's 5 year-old sister had just arrived for the weekend to play with them.
Saturday afternoon and Sunday were housechores.
My gut has been acting up this week so a little less energy. So glad to mostly be working from home when this happens.
Let's join Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom .
Tired, Chicago, need to sleep, work overload, tired ...
Tv this week
Big brother, Alertes, Aller Simple, discussions avec mes parents, Killing Eve, The walking dead, Le bon docteur, Après le déluge, Mégantic, Entre deux draps, Indéfendable, Stats, Les moments parfaits, Nurses, une affaire criminel, some Christmas movies, started Yellowstone too... way too much
Have started dvr'ing Christmas movies
Listening to or interesting blog I saw this week
Nothing
Things on the menu this week
Meat and tomato macaroni, boulettes de viandes, ... DH made chicken pot pies on Friday and sent one to ds ... we have leftovers from ours for today. He had also made a strawberry pie.
On my reading pile
I had to reset my Ebook and lost my books (but have a backup on my computer ) A l'eau de rose et de vaisselle by Sandra Ganneval... was not interesting so gave that up
Read EM by Kim Thuy.. a quick interesting read
Now reading L'enragé by Sorj Chalandon
On my to-do list
Over the weekend
- Vac main floor
- Wash main bathroom
- Laundry
- Make ragoût de boulette for this week and some for freezing
- Made a potage so we have enough leftover for this week too
- Prepped pasta macaroni for tonight
- Deep-cleaned main pantry
- Dusted kitchenette
- Took down Fall decor
- Put away Halloween
Monday
- Post here - DONE
- Make chocolate / pumpkin cookies
- Help dh wrap up the gazebo
- Prep for in-town work tomorrow
- Knit
- Do a few hours of telework
Decluttering
- Elliptical is finally out of here. DDIL wanted it but dh would not take it over saying they have already too much stuff in their house. told him it's either that or she buys a new one full price... I gave her the one I had. Never used it but had it for free too.
Small vaccum (from my parents that was here), sold on Marketplace but not sure it won't come back as the lady was saying tube was too short? duh it's like that. It's been 5 days... so crossing my fingers it's not coming back.
12 small tubes of paint given to grandkids (came from mom's)
1 pan (but dh replaced it with a new one)
2 boxes expired cereals
2 boxes expired cookies
2 expired cans (1 gravy and 1 cranberry sauce... stuck in the back of the pantry shelf)
1 broken cup
1 broken dessert plate
1 pair of jeans
1 tupperware container
Upcoming this week
In town work Tuesday
Thursday 8:00 am osteo appointment
Friday afternoon with dh in town for medical exam (it's this week, I thought it was last week)
To relax this week or In my crafting basket
FINALLY started a pair of knit socks
My simple pleasure
A cup of hot tea
*** Thanksgiving Tips, DIY, Ideas or recipes ** (new category)
Even though our Canadian Thanksgiving is of the past, here's the cookie recipe I am making today. My cookies are bigger (galettes) so it will probably give me about 15 or 16.
Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies - A Family Feast® They have lots of tips on the site
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup oil (canola or vegetable)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional but highly recommended)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper sheets
(or lightly grease the cookie sheet if you don’t have parchment paper).
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and egg. Mix until well combined.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl, dissolve the baking soda with the milk. Add both the dry flour mixture and the wet baking soda mixture to the pumpkin mixture. Mix well.
- Add in the chocolate chips and nuts and stir until evenly combined.
- Using a medium cookie scoop
(medium scoop is equal to 1 1/2 tablespoons), drop mounds of the cookie dough on the prepared cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool slightly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
From the camera:
I gave Xavier a dinosaur t-shirt... he was HAPPY!
DD's boyfriend's children
Xavier and Anne-E
Funny of the week:
You are doing a great job cleaning up! Oh, and the nights are already quite cold at your place. I hope you'll have good nights, and your stress level decreases. It's nice to read your blog again. The last pic is so funny.
ReplyDeleteThose cookies sound yummy! The kids look adorable in their costumes! You must have been quite busy on Halloween with 160 kids, we only had 81. I hope you feel better soon. And have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteI made those same cookies with my youngest the other day. Have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recipe. Sounds yummy 😋
ReplyDeleteYou had a good amount of Trick or Treaters! We did not have many around here and it even snowed a bit! Speaking of, you have some nice cold weather - it's still sort of in between here. I DID declutter about 24 items but did not write them down. Maybe for next HHM! Hope you have a great week!
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