Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Broomstick

Five for today...

1. My sister turning up with some of her Christmas choccies for us this morning in thanks for us looking after her son while she was at work.

2. Making Quorn mince and mash Shepherd's pie for tonight's supper in double quantities so that we now have spag sauce for another meal. There's enough mashed potato to mix with fish and sweetcorn for fish cakes for tomorrow night's tea too.

3. Making a big pan full of parsnip and apple soup for tomorrow's lunch with plenty of extra to freeze.

4. Going out to take my nephew back to my sister and coming home to find that DS(16) had washed up, cleaned the kitchen and done the floors downstairs.:j

5. Getting my calendar organised for the next few months.

sparrer

Tuesday blessings...
1. Visited DD, took cards/pressies for DGS, 15 today :eek: and DGD2, 12 on Thursday :eek: where does the time go? Enjoy the little ones now, they're gone all too soon..

2. Had a lovely long chat with DGD1 who told me all about her 1st driving lesson - the instructor kept having to tell her to slow down :rolleyes:

3. A no spend and no cook day and only me for dinner so I had the leftover (rabbit, yummy ) casserole from yesterday.

4. Bought a 2 litre flask for £5 for my cuppas so I just need heat the kettle once a day. Well, twice perhaps, as I'm such a tea addict

5. My slipper came off under the comp desk just now and when I knelt down to get it out I found a £1 coin and 2 x 1p..they've gone straight into the Christmas 09 savings pot :j

6. Thanking God for my precious family and sending virtual hugs to Kiwiblue, HariboJunkie and anyone else who is going through a difficult time

bluenose1

My 5 pleasures
1. I made a home made birthday cake for my son for the first time ever. It didn't rise very well, in fact it hardly rose at all and was very stodgy but my husband and the kids thought it was lovely.
2. Had videod an old musical film "Hello Dolly" with Barbara Streisand and Walter Matthau. It was great to watch it with the fire on covered in a heavy blanket. My husband and 3 sons are footy mad so I waited until they were all out.
3. Looking at my hyacinth on the windowsill beginning to flower makes me think of Spring.
4. Sorted out my sons pyjamas drawer as I am fed up with him being in odd PJ's. Got rid of all the ones that are too small and paired those left correctly.
5. Have put 5 Charity bags in the boot to take to the Charity Shop as my husband and I have had a big de-clutter over the last week or two.

I really enjoy writing about my pleasures as it makes me think and appreciate what I have done rather than just going through the motions. Think I may start listing them in my diary before I go to bed.

mummysaver

My pleasures today are:

1. Eating hm marmalade and hm butter on hm toasted bread - so simple and so tasty!

2. Sorting out all my jars and planning what I can put in them, more hm pickle coming up!

3. Walking the dog and scrunching the grass underfoot, even did a little hop and skip - it's fine, the neighbours already think I'm dotty!

4. Wearing my lovely thick fluffy socks and slippers and having toastie toes!

5. All four of my children thanking me this morning for making them lovely packed lunches, and cheering when they found out that it was hm pies for tea tonight!

Hmmm, quite a lot of my pleasure seem to come from food! Ah well, it's good to take pleasure from something so necessary and that takes up so much of my time! I guess a huge blessing is that I enjoy cooking!

Reverbe

Yesterday

1. HM soup defrosted for lunch

2. Private email message from one of my heroines on Myspace.

3. Free Graze Box - Fresh pineapple,wasabi peanut crackers, and milkshake mix ( dried strawberries,white chocolate buttons and chewy dried bananas)

4. leftover Prawn Dhansak, special fried rice and Bombay Aloo for dinner from last night takeaway

5. Peter Cushing as Dr Who in Daleks Invasion Earth

6. Oval oven dish from Poundland (gonna get really into cooking this year)

7. warm sunny day.

Caterina

cafelady wrote: »

P.S Caterina, how do you make your rice and peas soup please?

The fancy, highfalutin version (so to speak :rotfl: ):

Chop an onion, fry in some oil, add freshly shelled peas, add rice and sautee until all ingredients are covered in oil, cover with boiling hot water, add some stock powder (I use marigold), simmer, once rice is cooked serve with freshly grated parmesan and a sprinkle of pepper.

The basic version:

Boil a kettle of water, put water in a pan on the fire, add a handful of frozen peas and half a cupful of rice, add stock cube or powder, cook until rice is soft. Even on the basic version it is best to grate parmesan on top but if that's not available, cheddar will do!

Buon appetito!

Meanwhile, five for today - my oh my I am struggling today, had a really stressful morning of work fighting the new database!

Anyway here they are:

1 - I still have a job, it is part time and flexible and I work from home. A blessing even if sometimes very frustrating.

2 - My children are just so lovely, so competent at age 19, I am so proud of them.

3 - Free graze box arrived today (thank you Reverbe for reminding of this lovely little pleasure!).

4 - The Goodness Direct veg box and the local veg box have arrived so I am planning a big veg lunch and an even bigger veg dinner!

5 - Tonight WI meeting, looking forward to it.

parsonswife8

Hello everyone. Haven't posted for a while. Hope you are all well. Kiwiblue, my sincere best wishes to you and your OH. Take care.

My five for today...............

1. Two mugs of steaming hot tea brought up to me in bed, by my hubby on this cold morning.

2. Having my "nanna" face "coloured in" by my four year old grand daughter, using my makeup. Blue eyebrows and a bright pink lipstick nose and cheeks. Glad that postie didn't ring the doorbell.

3. Buying lots of organic veg, salad bits and fruit to get started on my healthy eating regime tomorrow.

4. Having some homemade turkey and veg soup for lunch and a slice of fresh granary bread made in the breadmaker.

5. Drinking a tall glass of tomato juice. Yum!

Reverbe

1. Reading an old Tesco mag

2. My thermal underwear - first time I actually wore the long johns..*blush*

3. Waking up in a bed not freezing outside like some poor folks.

4. Red Garden on DVD from Lovefilm

5. Lunch of leftover plaice fillet and curly kale - both yellow stickered

6. finding that a 5 yr old sachet of Cadbury Hot choc tasted fine!!!!! OMG!!!

7. descaling the kettle with 13p Mr T value malt vinegar - did a reasonable job

8. finally hearing from my friend in a long email - they have been ill and busy at work - so sad but glad to hear from them.

[Deleted User]

Good morning all
My five are.

1. Oh had a better night, the antibiotics have kicked in and hes fighting the infection.

2. All the jars of apricots I bottled yesterday sealed, I normally have the odd one that dosen't.

3. i have another date with the apricot tree, am determined to bottle, dry and preserve all I can.

4. Noting that the plums are just about ripe, will be ready as soon as the apricots finish.

5. Making mozzarella cheese from a new recipe and it turned out great. will be serving it with tomatoes and home grown basil to my weekend guests.

Blessings be
Jennie

bellaquidsin

1. Going a long bus ride to Mr. A to see if I could find any bargains - I couldn't, but I enjoyed the ride.

2. Sitting knitting this afternoon and watching it snow outside. It always makes me feel decadent to be sitting knitting in the daytime but if this half price sale wool I bought is ever going to actually be anything, then I have to stick at it.

3. Getting the kitchen cleaned while the tea was cooking. It has felt just too cold to venture in there for the last day or too but today I was actually warm.

4. Enjoying the 'positive' vibes this thread gives out. Without the focus it has given me this could have been a down day.

5. More knitting tonight so better get clicking.

Bella.