Weekend Recap and Plans for the Week

Tonight we’re lounging around the house. It’s finally the end of our busy week. Friday went as planned with the dinner at Scott’s coworker. The boys were as silly as ever. There may or may not have been a shotgun that got fired at one point for no good reason except to scare someone.  But we were out in the boondocks.  Like WAY OUT IN THE BOONDOCKS.  So far OUT IN THE BOONDOCKS that they had no access to cable.  They still used dial-up.  Such bad living conditions.  It’s so sad.  JK.  Their house is actually really nice.  They just have to use dial-up.   Still a sad state of affairs.

Saturday we slept in and then spent the rest of the morning shopping for Christmas. We were able to get all but one present. Yesterday evening we went out to dinner with Mom, Dad and Heather.  I then spent a good hour or so at CVS.  I got a call from MIL that one of our CVS’s in town was going to allow us to do this week’s deals a night early.  They had a huge sale with 17 items for free or better.  I had to do I think 5 transactions and got over $200 worth of stuff for $1.76 out of pocket and earned $11 ECBs.

Today I was so tired from staying up last night so I took a nap as soon as I got home.  I got up (ok, was forced out of bed) in time to wrap all our presents and straighten up the house for our guests this evening.

We had Scott’s entire family over for our Christmas dinner. Scott’s grandmother’s husband is sick with pneumonia so we moved it here last minute. It turned out really nice actually.  One funny story from that is Scott decided to make the brownies for me while I wrapped presents.  Except to find a cake when he pulled it out of the oven. Yes, Scott had made a Devil’s Food Cake instead of brownies.  So I whipped up some of Mom’s chocolate icing, poured it on and called it done.  It ended up being really good.

Scott’s dad is going in for a catheter tomorrow morning so I’m guessing we’ll be visiting with him tomorrow. Besides that, this week should be relatively quiet up until Christmas day.  Scott is working Mon and Tues and I’m working through Wednesday.

After Wednesday afternoon, it might get a little crazy again.  Wednesday night we’re going to do Christmas at Mom’s.  Not really sure what’s going down Thursday exactly but I’m sure it will involved a lot of driving around town and having people over.  Friday morning we’ll be headed out to Maryland until Tuesday. I’m so excited!