Friday and Saturday.....

I worked all of Friday on the foyer pretty much finishing it in one day except for a few tweaks.

It was my favorite kind of day........staying home and in my comfy clothes with no make up and tacky hair. I don't do this all that often and that's a good thing! One of the things I am very grateful for is make up and hair products! I'll have to get Louis Dean to sing The Very Unfortunate Man for you.

It's a song about a guy that marries what he thinks is an attractive lady.....until their wedding night where she takes off her wig, glass eye, teeth, and on and on......he was, indeed, very unfortunate!

This morning I sipped my coffee in the bee mug Brenda gave me.

I got up early - again.

I admit to being like a child at Christmas and, instead of waking up, rolling over and going back to sleep, I wake up and start thinking about what I'm going to do today.

After my prayer time I took another cup of coffee to the den and wrote out my shopping list for the next week or two. I  also planned a Christmas luncheon for a few friends since I'm not hosting my annual Christmas Tea. I am going to miss doing this and hope to be back at it next year. I truly am making adjustments and scaling back.

I did some work in the living room today and will continue dressing it all up tomorrow afternoon.

Step by step and room by room. Here a little and there a little.

To encourage myself, I go out to the den and sit with my tea or coffee - or wine - and enjoy how pretty it looks. Then I get up and go back to work.

I love Aldi! 

You simply can't beat the prices and I got a huge load of groceries and baking supplies for just under $150!

Chicken Cheese Enchiladas for Saturday night dinner!

Louis Dean prefers flour tortillas and they looked prettier than the corn ones which cracked open.

But after baking, they all looked good and it tasted wonderful!!

I got the recipe from Louis Dean's granddaughter, Chandy.

She is an amazing cook and prepares meals for a really BIG family of  'yours, mine and ours!!'

This recipe (I used two chickens just as she does so basically doubled the recipe) made a big pan of 10 enchiladas - half corn and half flour + another dish of 4 for Pam + another pan for the freezer to use post surgery. Pam came by this evening and I sent her home with some hot from the oven plus the dish for later. She is recovering well from her back surgery and it was good to see her and visit for a little while. I had tortilla chips and various hot sauces that I bought today at Aldi today that we snacked on while the food was baking. They were ALL way too hot!

Guess I'll be taking these down to the ranch to see if Dean and Sherry like them.

My last accomplishment was baking pumpkin muffins for a special little girl who is flying from Puerto Rico in the morning! Rayne dearly loves these and I promised I would be there when she came through the doors with a big pail full just for her!

So this is the last journal entry to comment on in the Christmas painting Giveaway.

I'm cutting it close this time.

It was just glazed last night and needs to dry before I add more detail to the star, allow to dry and glaze again.

I will announce the winner in tomorrow's post and mail it off as soon as it's dry.

I am so enjoying the whole process of preparing the house for Christmas and food for Thanksgiving.

But for now - I am off to bed!

 Rayne arrives in the morning and I am going to BE there to greet her!