Weekend Round Up

Friday evening started when I arrived home from work at exactly 5:15, my husband was waiting by the door with his jacket on (we had made arrangements to run some errands Friday evening but I didn’t think it warranted standing in the door way waiting for me.) I opened my car door and he was bouncing around like a little kid “WE HAVE TO GO TO THE HOCKEY STORE!!!  THEY HAVE 40% OFF ALL THEIR STUFF UNTIL 6pm!!!  (He is a goalie and his helmet is ancient and I am always all for him buying himself new safety gear, and hey at 40% off, ok!)  So I dumped my stuff in the house and flew out the door with him.  We arrived at the hockey store and searched through the very small pile of goalie helmets.  They did not have his size in what he wanted.  (He has a very large head for a guy, which works out well as I have a very large head for a girl.)  So he did not buy a helmet.  We headed out on the rest of our errands and then headed home where I ate potato chips for dinner and we watched Frosty the Snowman and I fell asleep on the couch.

 

Saturday morning my husband had to work so I got up early and cleaned up the house and pulled out all of the Christmas decorations.  The house is now decorated and quite festive.  We will get our live tree next week. 

 

 

I got the laundry started and I curled up to watch Home Alone 2. 

 

 

At one point my dog got up and left the room.  I went to go find her after a while, because with pets, you just never know what they are up to.  I nearly crapped myself as she found the bowl of tin foil wrapped milk chocolate that we forgot on the coffee table from the night before.  I figure she ate about two handfuls of milk chocolate.  (My dog is a medium to large sized dog)  She looked fine but I felt terrible.  I emailed our vet tech friend and she said milk chocolate isn’t the worst for the dogs but I could try and get her to expel it.  I thought I would kind of wait a bit to see what happened, the more I read on line the more I figured she ate very little considering her weight.  The smaller the dog and the darker the chocolate the more dangerous it would be.  We had hockey that night and I was petrified to leave her home alone so I brought her to my parents’ house to be baby sat.  Luckily she had NO problems.  The moral of this story, learn from my mistake, don’t leave chocolate anywhere where your dog could reach it, even if you are sleepy and forget it’s there.  WE WERE VERY LUCKY.  DON'T TAKE THE CHANCE!!!  I am so disappointed in myself as usually I walk through the house and make sure everything is pet safe.  I fucked up.

At hockey my team won 4-0 and my husband’s team tied 3-3.  Super fun game!

Sunday morning I woke up and first thing called my Mom to see how my dog made out, my Mom said my dog was perfectly fine, my Mom had gotten up a few times in the night just to check on her. (My Mom is the world's greatest!  I know my Mom would have called me in the night if there had been any issue what so ever.)  The dog pooped her morning poop, no mushies or anything.  (Albeit, I was told it was quite colourful with the tinfoil wrappings.) 

My husband worked again so I spent the morning steam cleaning the downstairs carpets as my Mom was going to drop off my dog at noon and pick up her steam cleaner.  The carpets look like new again!   It’s funny how you can vacuum and assume the carpets look clean, but if you steam clean them, what a huge difference!  PART WAY THROUGH MY CLEANING I SAW SNOW HAD STARTED TO FALL!!!  I LOVE SNOW!!!

Noon time rolled around and my Mom brought my pooch home.  The dog was happy as a clam, and she was still doing good.  Pheff, what a relief!  We then headed out to visit my grandparents.  They love to feed people so upon arrival I had a bowl of amazing homemade tomato based vegetable soup.  Both of my grandparents are AMAZING cooks and bakers.  My grandmother puts Martha Stewart to shame making everything look PERFECT.  And it tastes AMAZING.  My Papa has learned from my grandmother and he too is AMAZING at cooking and baking.  I, of course, had to have three of their amazing cookies; they would have been insulted if I didn’t. It was a really nice visit with my Mom and my grandparents.  (I didn't get pictures of the food, often I forget to get picture of food as I am too busy scarfing it down!)

In addition to being amazing cooks, my grandparents' have amazing green thumbs!  Snap dragons still going strong in their garden with freshly fallen snow.

I got home a few minutes before my husband returned home from work.  I love doing a home cooked meal/roast on Sundays so I went with my Super Easy Roast Chicken andPotatoes.  This time I used the Club House Greek seasoning.  It was really good and hit the spot.

 

 

 

For dessert I threw together some “Magic Bars”.  They are super easy and I made a very small batch as I knew if I made a big batch I would have eaten them all.  I had a can of condensed milk open in the fridge so I just pour out a third of the can to make the small version.  We snacked on my small version of Magic Bars while we watched Love Actually.  Once the movie was over I headed upstairs to watch the Grey Cup half time show with Mr. Gordon Lightfoot who performed.

That’s our weekend!