Life is busy, but what’s new?

It has been a world and a day since I updated, and for that I am truly sorry! Last week I worked the entire week to make a little extra money to pay for Christmas. I thought things would return to normal this week, but they needed my help Monday and Wednesday as well. I’m glad I was able to make enough to cover all of our Christmas gifts, but I’m so incredibly glad to be back at home!

Today, I am baking cookies for a cookie exchange on Sunday. I made snickerdoodles and chocolate mallow pies. The snickerdoodles are really good, but I’m not sure how the chocolate mallow pies turned out. (I still have to make the filling and put them together.) If they did not turn out, then I can just take the snickerdoodles. There are enough of them for the party.

The thing I missed most last week was cooking! I am so excited to start cooking again – and especially excited to plan our Christmas dinner! I think we are going to have pork loin, but don’t quote me on that quite yet. I might do game hens or something else. I still have a few weeks to decide. Are you cooking Christmas dinner? If so, then what are you making?

We did really well on our budget last month. In fact, I was able to roll our thanksgiving trip into the budget instead of taking it out of our travel fund! We also took $50 out of each of our allowances this month and went out to eat at Taste of Texas (if you live in Houston and you haven’t been there – go – seriously! It’s amazing.). The dinner was to celebrate our one year dating anniversary. I know it technically shouldn’t count because we’re married now, but seriously – we needed to go out on a nice date – and David needed to eat steak. I think men start to fall apart if they haven’t had red meat after a few weeks.

This weekend is going to be crazy. My dad and brother are coming to stay with us tonight, and we are taking them to the Star of Bethlehem presentation here in Houston. Then, we are going to my cousin’s wedding on Saturday afternoon. If we’re not too tired we are going to hang out with a friend that evening, and then the cookie exchange is Sunday.

If I haven’t died from running in twenty different directions after this weekend, then I hope to tackle the ever-growing tower of laundry in the closet and clean house next week. I miss cleaning the house. It’s relaxing – and honestly, I have a lot of fun because I dance around to Christmas music!