This seems an appropriate piece of artwork for the week of Thanksgiving. I anticipate there will be lots of dishwashing going on in our homes over the next four or five days! LOL!
Due to a variety of circumstances, we’re going to be home this year with just the three of us for Thanksgiving. We’ve all agreed to scale back our expectations for the actual feast. To tell the truth, we’re all kind of tired for various reasons. We decided that rather than spend days with the three of us devoting multiple hours each day preparing for one meal for two people, we would utilize many shortcuts and simplifications. Caroline’s one request was her favorite stuffing that my mom started making when I was a girl and we still make in our family – Midwest Sausage Stuffing.
I thought about not putting up a homemaking goals post this week since I’m not sure what other people have going on. But I decided I would suggest one goal this week. In fact, it might even overlap with your holiday preparations so you get your holiday things done and you can also share your goal and maybe encourage someone else to jump in!
My goal this week is to keep working through my recipes stash that I started with last week’s goals. I’m cleaning out so many accumulated recipes, pages ripped from magazines, printouts from online, etc. I made a really good start last week and want to keep going.
Do you have a homemaking goal this week? Please share it in the comments!
Categories: Homemaking
Last week was not a triumphant one for me. I kept thinking I’ll be able to catch up this week. Now I’m realizing that we’re leaving to visit out-of-state family on Wednesday through the end of the week, which leaves me today and tomorrow to work on all of those things…oh well. One goal seems attainable, at least.
1) I really must clean out those quail cages before our neighbor comes to take care of the critters this week. Nothing like the thought of strangers seeing my disorder to pep up my motivation!
Nothing like company coming to get cleaning done! LOL!
I think a lot of us have experienced that many times. 🙂
My goal for this week is to make a little curtain to cover a hole cut in the wall of our basement family room where a new water shut-off valve was installed. The hard part is going to be figuring out how to hang the curtain.
That sounds like a great job for your creativity!
I hope the shut off valve wasn’t the results of a disaster. Don’t ask me how I know about these things…
First off – LOVE your Christmas header! 🙂
Hope you guys have a lovely Thanksgiving!! (our goal: more condo moving. It’s a slow-moving process!)
Hi Lor,
I’m glad you like the new header! I love the red and overall color combination.
We had a good Thanksgiving. I hope your condo moving went well!
Sallie
I work at a hospital, so I’m working Thanksgiving and also on Friday. My husband and youngest son will handle most of the dinner prep. We’re also having our family’s version of a quiet Thanksgiving, with just our four children and our son in law. Last Thanksgiving was so crazy, so I’m really looking forward to coming home and having a quiet meal with my family. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Hi Cheryl,
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving with both work and your family!
Sallie
We will have a quiet Thanksgiving,too. It will be the three of us[my twin sister and our older sister]. We make our maternal grandmother’s stuffing. It is similar to the stuffing that is in the book “An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving”. Wishing you and your family a BLESSED and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Joan,Marion and Marilyn
Hi Marilyn,
I hope you and your sisters had a lovely Thanksgiving as well!
Sallie
Hi Sallie,
I want to echo Lor’s comment about the Christmas header – I love it too! Our Thanksgiving was over a month ago (in Canada) so we won’t have too much extra happening this weekend.
I am planning to put three pots for our porch together of various greenery and dogwood from my childhood property ( my mum brought some up as I missed gathering it this year – love it because I remember when some of those evergreens were planted,lol) as well as some add-ons from our yard.
Hi Erin,
I’m glad you like the header!
In some ways I wish our Thanksgiving was earlier so it was farther away from Christmas. However, that will never happen so we do what we do.
Your porch decorations sound lovely. If you have any pictures to share, you could add them in the forum! Just drag them to the place where it says to add attachments and it will add them.
Sallie