Wednesday, January 15, 2025

AND HERE IT IS A NEW YEAR

 Hello, friends!  I know I haven't been around for quite a while.  The holidays are always so busy.  I hope you have been watching my YouTube channel and are all caught up on what is going on.

I thought I would share some pictures here and tell you a bit about what's been happening.


I did a lot of cooking and baking.  It has been a very cold winter and the stove going has helped to keep the kitchen warm.  Let me tell you this house is cold!  Much colder than my old house.  All of the windows leak cold air and the forced air heat is not as warm as radiators.  But we still like our house a lot.

 

This was dinner one night -- ham, green beans and sliced tomatoes.  Like my snowman mug?  We are so very grateful to my sister for the kitchen table and chairs she bought us.  For months we were eating off of TV trays in the living room.  It is so nice to have a working kitchen again.


I wanted to bake so many cookies, but got only two kinds done.  These are the sugar cookies.  The others were oatmeal craisin cookies.  I packaged them up and gave them to everyone in my Bible Study.  There were a few left and they were good.  I think I will make some sugar cookies this week.



We bought a new Advent wreath this year.  It is battery operated and the lights flicker like real flames.  With our cat George jumping on everything, we just felt this was safer.


I've been doing a lot of reading on my Kindle too.  I love to read and I'm glad I now have time to get back into it.  I've already finished two books this month and I started a third today.  I wanted to read at least 25 books this year and I think I will easily surpass that goal.



Joe bought some knit stockings at Target and we hung them for decoration.

Christmas was divided between my sister's house and our house.  I will tell you about that next time.

Hope you all had a lovely holiday season and are enjoying the new year.  See you soon.

Kathy




1 comment:

  1. Hi Kathy! Good to see you back in blogland! Your hair looks so cute in the last picture. So glad you like your new house. Looks like you had a nice holiday. The cookies look yummy. So glad you are finding time to read again. My husband and I both got new Kindles for Christmas and we both love reading on them! It is much easier on the eyes, I am finding. I hope your new year continues to go well. See you again soon!

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