HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY, RECIPES & MENUS week 47 of 2025 ~ BLOG 365.328

Be sure to join Happy Homemaker Monday with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

LAST WEEK RECAPPED

It was a busier than usual week plus mom had her knee replacement surgery last Wednesday. And this will be a “short” week, so let’s just jump into it.

Happy Thanksgiving week! I won’t be hosting anything this year, but going to a friend’s house with a couple favorite recipes in tow. The thing is though that when you host Thanksgiving you have the leftovers and more time that weekend for family time. Fortunately, for me anyway, the friend hosting is a snowbird and leaving the next day so I still get leftovers 🙂

When I was a kid we always hosted Thanksgiving and my dad would put up the tree the day after, sit me down with a pile full of presents to wrap, Christmas cards to address, football on television, a freshly made leftover turkey sandwich… aw the memories…

Not having the weight of getting the house ready though has freed me to concentrate on BLOGMAS which I will begin on Friday November 28th. I’m also going to do it a little different this year in hopes of freeing up some extra time. There will only be 10 actual blog days for BLOGMAS, each of which will cover multiple topics that have been grouped together to make things easier. I hope you can play along and enjoy the simplicity of this year 🙂

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY, WHAT’S ON MY MIND, PROJECTS, APPOINTMENTS & DVR/TV

TO DO: LAUNDRY & CLEANING I got all the laundry done yesterday.
TO DO: GROCERIES & ERRANDS I’m avoiding as many stores as possible this week. I will do virtually no Eagle’s shopping either. Mom does have a late PT appointment on Wednesday, her first since last week’s knee replacement.
RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING Menus are planned through the rest of 2025 and I’m making them as anti-inflammatory as possible.
DVR/TV Who has had time?
THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY Cold foggy mornings when I wake up early and snuggle deeper into my winter quilt to read for a bit before coffee, soft fuzzy slippers to slide into when I do get up followed by a hot cup of coffee to sip while I check the weather and decide what to wear.

READING TIME

I’m back to falling asleep quickly, but need to spend more time reading!

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀

	11/24 MONDAY	11/25 TUESDAY	11/26 WEDNESDAY	11/27 THURSDAY	11/28 FRIDAY	11/29 SATURDAY	11/30 SUNDAY
DINNER	Auxiliary meeting night so it’s CORN./YOYO	SPAGHETTI BOLEGNESE and PARMESAN MEATBALLS	CHICKEN BROCCOLI SOUP with BUTTER BISCUITS	THANKSGIVING @ SHIRLEY’S I’m bringing the stuffing and dessert and bringing home leftovers 🙂	CORN/YOYO clean out refrigerator night or you’re on your own	LASAGNE & GARLIC BREAD	BEEF BARLEY STEW
DESSERT

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

Don’t judge, but my tree is up 🙂 since we aren’t hosting Thanksgiving I got a jump start on Christmas decorating. The new star for the tree top arrived and we love it.

There are 2 barns in particular that I just love to see when we take the back route to town. If I’d have had to make a prediction years ago I would have picked the one still standing as the one that would falls first. If we get a good wet snow this year I really believe the second one will fall completely.