Waiting for My Family to Come Home

Okay, after a week of my family being gone, I'm ready for them to come home.  Although I have been pretty busy the last few days. Friday, Jann and I left around noon and went up to the city to go furniture shopping for our new office.  We bought a couple more used 5-drawer lateral file cabinets, saw lots of desks and chairs, visited a reupholsterer's shop and looked in several antique shops for unique pieces of furniture.  We also went to a specialty jewelry shop (Silver Leaf Gems) so Jann could get one of her necklaces shortened that she purchased there.  She told me I could pick out anything I wanted up to $200.  I found this necklace and earring set on the 50% off table.  It's really pretty.  I don't have much green stuff, but I already had some red coral and turquoise jewelry so I decided to get something different.

After we got tired of shopping we had our office Christmas party - we went to Mama Rojas restaurant on Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City and watched the sunset as we ate our tilapia with chips and salsa, etc. 

Saturday, I got up early and went to Weightwatchers, then went to Zumba at the YMCA.  I did some grocery shopping in case we have another Snowpocalypse on Christmas like we did a couple of years ago.  Jann had invited me over for dinner with her and Tom. And because I hadn't seen her house in a couple of years and she had it decorated real pretty.  She made Shepherd's pie and a salad.  It was yummy.  We watched a movie and Tom gave me a bottle of wine from the winery to bring home.

This morning I got up and went to church and then one of the ladies in my prayer shawl group and I went to breakfast and went up to the city to see the newest Cirque du Soleil show.  Joe gave me a pair of tickets before he went out of town.  I really enjoyed the show (I think the name of the show was Dralian or something like that) and I thought it was better than the Saltimbanco one I saw several years ago.

Tomorrow I'm going to use my mani-pedi gift certificate from my birthday and pamper my feet and hands while I wait for the family to get home safe and sound before the snow hits tomorrow night.  I'm going to make my Cranberry-jalepeno dip to take over to Joe's Aunt Cindy's house tomorrow night and depending on when the family gets home, I may or may not go to Christmas Eve service.  I may even try to make a Hummingbird cake to eat on Christmas Day.  I've never made one and I had a piece when I went to Guthrie a couple of weeks ago.  The recipe just happened to be in a Southern Living magazine this past fall - so I've got to try it.  I'm making it from scratch so wish me luck!  I'll post pictures later.

I discovered Lorna is on Pinterest and I've started following her.  It's amazing the stuff that we like that is the same.  I even went through my Pinterest boards the other day and re-organized them making more boards so I could find stuff easier.

Oh and this is the recipe for my bourbon balls.....