5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

Patchwork_Quilt

1) Another lie-in. My DH has a cold, which is not good at all, but it did mean that he did not get up to work and we could snuggle up. Having teenagers in the house is wonderful because they don't get up either.
2) Managed to write my OU short story, I think. This is my third attempt. After a few hours of revising, it might be ok.
3) YS brisket in the oven with half a bottle of wine leftover from a previous meal - DH unexpectedly brought a friend home for tea last night. The friend's wife was away so it seemed like a good idea. Just as they were about to arrive, DH remembered the friend was a vegetarian! I was dashing out to Tesco as they drew up. It's the first time I have ever bought mashed potato! Fortunately, I can cook veggie and produced a chickpea in red wine potato pie in about half an hour. Phew!
4) Munching Christmas brazil nut toffee from DD and DS.
5) Making arrangements with a friend for them to come on New Year's Eve. Tesco were selling salmon off this week, so guess what we'll be having?

Bitsy_Beans

Evening everyone.
Mine for today/yesterday are:

1. Met one of H's friends from school last night - was nice to meet him after H telling me all about it.
2. The above friend invited us to his house party last night - free champange, beer you name it, food, live entertainment with a crooner and a drag act. Was a really good night and met some lovely new people.
3. Coming home from said party with it snowing heavily. Was really nice seeing all the Christmas lights and it being wintery and all
4. A child free night as the kids stayed at my parents for the night :T
5. Put down the Christmas tree this afternoon - living room now clutter free.
6. Managed to get a pair of shoes for DS in Clarks sale.
7. Having some sausage for tea and drooling at the thought of it mixed with cheese and pasta

Have a good evening all.

bonty44

Hi, hope everyone has had a nice day!

These are my five for the day ...

1 Staying up till 3am to make sock monkey for DS1 as I had made a sock dog for DS2 recently; unfortunately the monkey had a very malevolent look about him so I had to unstitch and restitch until he looked cute and friendly, not evil! Well worth staying up for as DS1 absolutely loves him!!!

2 Made DS2 a felt polar bear which has followed him everywhere today. I am getting better and better at sewing!!!

3 Having a wonderful lie-in (thanks, OH!) due to late night stitching - DS1 and DS2 snuggled up and wrote messages on my back with their fingers ... "I love you Mummy", "fab", !great", didn't mind then when DS1 started writing "rubbish", "pants", etc. Don't think I've ever heard DS2 squeal so much in his life!!!

4 Finding the perfect blue fleece blanket for DS1 sale in Sainsburys today, his first 'thing for his new bedroom when Mummy gets round to painting it blue'

5 Spending the entire afternoon with a friend, drinking tea, eating biscuits and just chatting ... we all went round and her daughter and my two were really really good children, played brilliantly together, OH joined in too and we all had a fab time!

I am REALLY enjoying this thread!

Also feeling very very proud of my best friend whose husband left her about 2 months ago; she is SO strong and composed, is working so hard to hold it all together for her son, and I am really really proud of her, she is a better person than I would have been in the circumstances.

scintus-macbintus

Evening all
My 5 for today is............
1) having a delicious bacon and tomato sarni for breakfast and hot cup of tea whilst watching the little Robin in my garden.

2)Been paid a lovely compliment from a lovely lovely doctor, it really made my day.

3) Spending time with my old mum and my sister and niece having agood old chat and eating scrummy food and chocolates

4) Hearing my adult kids get excited when I said they could have New Years day dinner at mine and me laughing at hubby moaning at why cant we go to them for once!! he loves to have a moan it's his fav pastime

5) just eaten a lovely tea and having a very large class of wine and chillin on the settee with my old moaner (i love him really)

On reflection it appears that all I have thought and talked about is food
Have a lovely evening folks xxx

bellaquidsin

Today's pleasures:-

1. 5 portions of carrot and coriander soup safely stashed away in the freezer for 'easy' lunches to come.

2. Making tomato chutney with some of the 750g pack of tomatoes I got from Mr. A. for 20p.

3. Making cards all afternoon.

4. An easy meal from the freezer - cottage pie with mince sneaked out when I cooked for the children last week, and there's another one to come.

5. DH has just come to sit with me, I don't usually see him before 9.00pm.

Bella.

Broomstick

Evening . Here's my five for Wednesday, I've had a very admin sort of day so it's rather boring but has made me feel pretty pleased with myself!:

1. Continued with the spreadsheet and have now got the whole of the New Year's finances documented and have highlighted the places we can tighten our spending. Feels so good to be starting to feel in control of it all again - our house move in the summer really knocked me off balance and I hadn't realised how much.

2. Have talked it all through with DS1&2 and also got January's diary planned trying to work out how we can fit all our conflicting interests into the next 31 days alongside the need to be a bit more frugal. That feels pretty good too. I just need to get my meal plans in place now. :rolleyes:

3. Have got all the utilities bills paid up to date at last. There's been all sorts of complications and confusions with the various companies but everything is now sorted and ticked off with some refunds going on to some of my bills .

4. Found a voucher in the pile of papers for a free week's worth of gym membership that DS1 will be able to use next week.

5. An almost NSD - does a bar of chocolate count? It was only a little bar and I had been very organised with all the money stuff :rolleyes:

Sleep well everyone.

B xxx

Frith

5 for today:

1) We didn't get the 25cm of snow that was forecast. We had about an inch last night and it has rained almost constantly today and washed it all away.

2) 2 of my friends from my Sixth Form College days came this morning with their children.

3) Went out to lunch at my sister's - baked ham etc, very nice.

4) Popped into Mr S's on the way home to get a few nibbles for those congragating at my house on New Years Eve.

5) Went swimming with my brother. I don't know what big son was doing (he just swims off and spends most of his time at the bottom of the deep end!) but little son is getting better all the time and can now jump into deep water and likes swimming to the surface.

6) Made a chicken korma for tea, probably the boys' new favourite.

7) Just read them a chapter of the Borrowers.

Got a quiet evening now. I keep looking at the tree and quite want to take it down (it needs to be replanted) but will miss the pretty lights. Perhaps it is a job for tomorrow.

L

angeltreats

I like today!

1. Finally bought myself a filter coffee machine, using some Christmas money. I've wanted to have 'proper' coffee at home for years, and I found a really nice machine (Morphy Richards Mattino) in Co-Op for £28. I'm just sipping the first cuppa made with Lidl coffee which is lovely, if a little bit weak for me but I can always buy something stronger when I use this up.

2. Also using Christmas money for something I've wanted for years, I booked myself onto a beginner's bonsai class next month. It's over a full day and you get to bring home the bonsai you work on. I so can't wait.

3. Made an iced orange cake from Rachel Allen Bake. It sank in the middle, I think due to my horrid dodgy oven (as I can't think of any other reason it would have - I've never ever had a cake sink before) but I still think it'll be very tasty and am waiting for the icing to set so I can scoff a piece :rotfl:

4. My lovely hubby, who works as a magazine buyer and sometimes brings home samples, found a gorgeous Delia Christmas magazine from 2004 in a cupboard at work and brought it home for me. It's in pristine condition and I was pleased as punch.

5. Cooked some Moroccan chickpea soup from Rachel Allen's Favourite Food for Friends. It was possibly the easiest soup I've ever made and tastes gorgeous, and will be a lovely lunch at work tomorrow.

6. Spent yesterday evening sorting out my new MP3 player and filling it with music, and tried it out today while driving to and from work (I plug it into the car stereo). It's great, far more space than my old iPod and it doesn't randomly malfunction due to age and having been abused during its lifetime And I love singing along to all my favourite songs in the car to liven up a long and boring drive to work.

Sorry that's one more than usual but I'm a happy bunny today!

Acey - so glad to hear you're reading the Borrowers to your boys, that was one of my favourite books as a child and I still think it's fantastic, in fact you've made me want to borrow it from the library and read it again

Broomstick

I'm sneaking in with another pleasure:

6. Single cream in my hot chocolate tonight. I looked at the use by date and it's tomorrow and I felt duty bound to ensure that we don't waste food.

angeltreats - oh yes, do read 'The Borrowers' again. Children's books (particularly those pre-1970, I reckon) are such good treats and very often you can pick them up for pennies in charity shops if the library no longer has them. I was a readaholic child and reread lots of my favourites before ever having children myself then reread many again as bedtime stories when my sons were younger. DS2 particularly enjoyed the 'Carbonel' stories by Barbara Sleigh (Puffin). I think the first in the series was republished a few years ago but the later two books are like gold-dust and cost a lot through serious second-hand dealers. From what I remember, the chapters end with really good but gentle cliff-hangers - very successful as bedtime reading. 'Worzel Gummidge' was also a success. All these books fit in with OS lifestyles (and childhoods) really well too.

Sweet dreams
B xxx

nuttybabe

Hiya All

Mine for today:

1 Going into town and only getting the socks and stuffing on my list - i resisted the sales - I know I would have just got junk cos it was cheap!

2 Laughing at dh trying to transform the kids transformers that they got in the sales today out of their xmas money.

3 Just buying stuff off my list in asda! That was a good start as I will have to stick to my lists in future

4 My sock cat going wrong and I have changed it to a rather good looking rabbit - was a challenge with the ears but I think I have done a good job and after dh stopped laughing that it was meant to be a cat he now agrees that it is a pretty darn good rabbit!!!

5 watching what i want on tv cos dh forgot about the footy! ha ha!!!!

Hope you all are ok