I’m out of credit card debt!

How much do you think it would cost to hire a drill sergeant to wake my kids up in the morning? Like 20 bucks and a bedazzled megaphone?

If it snows again today, I’m fighting the sky.

Kitchen flowers.

Family Christmas party is tomorrow. We’ve had to reschedule several times as the ick has moved its way through every family. Picture of the not tray worthy brownies being taken tomorrow.

If you serve a bag of fruit next to a plate of dinner food - it makes a balanced meal. Like, I weighed it, almost the same number of ounces.

Tricked my kids into eating their health, wealth, and happiness today. Hotdogs with slaw, cowboy caviar(black eye peas), greens salad. Now just gotta work in the corn bread.

I got fancy salt for Christmas (it’s fancy because it was in a pretty box and I didn’t pay for it) and used it for a bogo avocado and a $7 for a dozen bagel. Delicious.

Hey Bluesky- my son is 14 & looking for new hobbies, preferably indoor friendly. As soon as he gets decent at one, he’s ready to try something new. So far he’s tried- skateboarding, guitar/clarinet(also bass versions), various Sports, chess, card games, bird watching, is a reader, jewelry making.

Turns out it is not 1995 and I am no longer 8 years old. My stomach can no longer survive the 90s.

Hamburger helper-ish. I used leftovers, but if I’d bought it all fresh, it would have been crazy expensive. 1lb hamburger(budget busted), 1lb noodles, 1 box chicken stock, 2tbs each corn starch, tomato paste, garlic&onion powder, pepper, salt. 1/4C cream, 2C cheddar, 1/4C Velveeta, 10oz broccoli.

Summers in college I was a teller at a local bank. A month after I started the bank‘s vice president hired a middle aged man to work at our branch. Everyday he showed up with a brief case. In general, if tellers bring their work home, they go to jail. So we were very confused about what he used his

I’m more excited about waiting for this pizza delivery than waiting for Santa.

Merry Christmas!

I’m on vacation!!!!!!

The last thing my boss said to me tonight before he signed off was ‘It’s been pretty quiet all week, you should be fine.’ Narrator: It was not fine.

They don‘t accept my card type.

Rope dropping Costco on Christmas eve. Pray for me.

Kids are at their dad‘s tonight so —-I’m having cookies for dinner!

I made four big batches of cookie dough before work. Turned on the oven- giant billowing clouds of white smoke filled the house. Something had dripped all over the bottom. I will now be gifting cookie dough. Merry Christmas, your gift is salmonella or dirty dishes!!

I love my kids. With my whole heart. There’s almost nothing I wouldn’t do for them. But if they open mouth cough in my face one more time…..

I work for a major tech company. I’m a full grown adult with two kids, a dog, & a mortgage. As far as I know, I have not spent the last 20 years licking lead. Every Wednesday, I sit on the couch with my daughter & she asks me questions about her math homework & I cry.

Made a giant pot of pork lo mein(chow mein? Lion’s mane? Gucci mane? It’s my grandma’s recipe and I don’t think it’s authentic to anywhere)only to sit down with a big bowl and realize the pork had gone bad. I bought it yesterday. It looked so good. 😭

I just stopped at the grocery store to buy one small head of Napa cabbage - it was eight bucks. I did not get the cabbage.

My PTO was approved!! I‘m taking off Christmas Day- New Year’s Day. I’m so excited I might cry. The last full day of time off I took was to have two teeth pulled in August.

Tracking the years a bags been reused like an archaeologist.

I’ve moved into The ‘everything goes in a bag‘ portion of Christmas wrapping. I can already see the ‘ah, I’ll just hand it to them, it’ll be fine’ portion on the horizon.

My poinsettia is looking particularly pretty today.

While Christmas shopping I found a pack of lip balm packing. This is how I’m giving cash as gifts forever now.

I was wrapping presents and was challenged to fista cuffs. Go on- curl my ribbon. I DARE YOU.

With the kids in school and me working 2nd shift, it’s been hard to work in Christmasy things. Kind of just working things in when we can. Tonight we made fancy hot chocolate on my break! Super cute.

There’s been a miracle. I slipped this morning. I yelled across the house that breakfast is ready in 6-7 mins. I froze, held by breath, rotated to face the hallway- eggs midair on the spatula-braced for the inevitable chorus. Silence. The curse is lifted, numbers are safe again. Joyous day to all.

First snow day of the season! But in this economy, it looks like they didn’t spring for the snow.

When I noticed Costco was selling gifts baskets and delivery was free, I sent everyone a basket for Christmas. Now that I’ve learned they’re suing over tariffs, I’m sending everyone two. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

We were gifted hot chocolate balls, so I corralled other related snacks (bought some peppermint sticks) and voila! Hot chocolate bar!! My daughter’s school serves hot chocolate on reward days with various toppings, so this was HUGE hit to have at home.

Three hours, two grandparent, and one thrown back later- our tree is in the stand.

They were so incredibly good. I don’t know if there’s a point where you can eat ‘too many’ cranberries, but we’re about to find out (no worries about the copious amount of sugar on them, the limit does not exist).

If my turkey doesn’t manage to cook, at least we’ll have sides. Greens, stuffing, and gravy on the stove. Mashed potatoes ready for the oven swap.

This jerk. Has been in my fridge. ‘Thawing’ for FIVE days. Solid as a rock. Happy Thanksgiving.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be destemming greens for the next 75 years.

Breaking a cardinal rule of Thanksgiving- experimenting with a never before tried recipe. Candied cranberries.

My mom‘s work sent out a ‘restructuring’ email. Everyone that wants to continue to work there has to go to an internal portal and reapply for the job they’re already working. They did not share how many people they’d be ‘hiring back’. Rumor is this is to lower pay and stop pensions.

Remember when there was such a thing as a ‘slow news week’? I worked in my college‘s student publication department all four years. My dad worked at a tv news station for 30- I very much remember the reaching and struggle for something to fill a spot/time.

I should really get started on my mashed potatoes and other preps today…..instead I’m ordering take out because I have a coupon (and I just really don’t feel like dirtying the kitchen).

This just in: you can buy ham bones (with tons of meat still on it), from honey baked ham. I got a medium sized one for $9- and it will go from soup to collards to beans this week.

The world is falling apart, and I’m sitting in bed studying for a certification for work (that’s newly required), and will cost me $250 to take. I’m about 90% sure I’ll be laid off by January. What is even the point?

Happiest dog in the world. The sun has moved back to the perfect spot for naps.

Some of the wreaths we made at our crafternoon!

We had a crafternoon today. Everyone brought the bits and pieces of craft supplies that have been hanging around their house. I put the snacks everyone brought on a fancy tray and we had a party!

I just paid $194 to take my daughter to the doctor for an ear infection. We haven’t even been seen yet. I pay $300 a month for insurance already.