Friday Night at Our House

I got home from school around 3:30. I had promised DH that I would make him a homemade pizza (using a lot of the ingredients I had chopped for our raclette meal). I did the pizza while he took a shower; he's working the clock tonight for the church league basketball games. There are four games tonight--5:30 is the first game, and 8:30 is the last game. That means that the dog and I will be here alone until around 10:00. I miss having DH in the house, but my mother encouraged my sister and me to be able to entertain ourselves, so I'll read, watch some television (Friday nights means Close to Home and Numbers, and House reruns on USA), and spend some time in my studio.

I have thank you notes still to be done. My school friends gave me several housewarming gifts when we moved, and with Mother's illness and death, I've gotten behind on notes. I think I've finished all the notes from Mother's passing, and I have just housewarming and Christmas to do. I used the Autumn Leaves Quote, Unquote books to make up a lot of card inserts to use all during the year when I make birthday, friendship, etc., cards. One of my New Year's resolutions is to be better about making and sending cards; I always get such positive remarks when I send one of my handmade cards, and I enjoy making them.

I also have pictures that I need to send to be printed. I have DH's family Christmas photos, and I'm going to enlarge a picture of DH's younger son to 5 X 7 and put it in a frame on the entertainment center in the living room (the entertainment center is actually a hundred-year-old sideboard that belonged to my mother's mother). I think I've given away all the pictures I took of my great-niece and her uncle (my nephew), so I need more of those. I need to do my own album of great-niece pictures, since I've done three for other people.

Tomorrow is Saturday, which means a little more time for what I want to do. Since we've worked on the budget to make it possible for us to have weekly cleaning help, I can spend more time on craft projects and less on housework. I also eliminated a lot of clutter when we moved, and we've done a good job of keeping everything picked up and returned to its "home" (our cleaning/organizing lady told us that everything in a house has a "home" and that "home" should be what is logical and convenient for us; that will make us more likely to return things to their "home").

Think I'll go make a pot of coffee, and fondle some alphabet stickers...