Well, I finally had my first good sleep for three days, and it was lovely, I did get a chuckle out of my Dh’s morning phone call that found me still relaxing in bed, while he had already well started his day and was taking a break after the rounds of morning chores.. I guess in a way I am having both a family time and farm holiday.

Yesterday was another busy day, the morning was spent on housework, laundry (it does not matter where you live, you still have to keep things up) Our first round of company arrived in the morning, its my mom’s friend M, her and her family have been friends with my family for 27 years now, and its was great to see her as I had missed my visit with her in the spring, she came bringing a tray of homemade goodies, and she still makes the best! fruit cake.. 

It was a lovely visit and then off to get my treatment from my folks chiropractor and boy am I glad I went, felt so much better afterwards, really openned and or re-lined something because I came out with that light headed floaty feeling..

Then we headed into the city again, this time with mom and dad, and off to my baby brothers favorite place for chinese. They had amazing sushi, and lots of fresh veggie dishes, which I heaped up on, I had their version of tapioca, it was SO sweet, I swear they made it in sugar water, very different from anything I had before.. there was one other interesting thing of note.. No beef!

The ginger beef has been replaced with Ginger pork, the dry Beef salt and pepper had been replaced with dry pork salt and pepper, the eggrolls that normally are cabbage, carrot, onion and beef, replaced with veggie eggrolls, and the beef and broccoli.. good luck on finding any beef in it.. there were a few very tiny slivers.. Guess the cost of beef even in alberta is sky high..

Then some shopping for mom, she was after stocking stuffers, and I tagged along to push the carts and look at things.. the only thing I found of note was Wasbi lime Mustard, it was on sale and when I got to the till, they took an extra 30% off, awesome, its for big brother, he loves hot things, and its such a interesting flavor combo.

So the funny of the day is that I have forgotten how to make basted eggs in a non-stick pan, I cook eggs at home all the time, big fresh farm dippy eggs for me, and scrambled for honey.. so I went to make eggs, no cast iron, just the non-stick and got the ” we don’t do flipped in this house, we do basted” so fine, I don’t flip the egg, I put the water in and steam the top.. broke every single one of them trying to get them out and got some good teasing to go with..

It’s funny how you get used to your own way of cooking and then have a hard time adjusting back, its like the paper towels instead of cloth, or the paper coffee filters instead of a french press, throwing away egg shells instead of into the compost pile..

I had brought one outfit for christmas with me, and had gotten a new dress just a day or two ago, but this morning mom has had me try on an extra five outfits so that I can look pretty over the season for photos..  I bring dress pants and pretty tops, now I have three peices matching outfits plus tights, and matching jewerly/makeup to pack..a whole huge suitcase just for our “dress outfits” aw.. christmas at mom’s..

I drive poor Dear hubby crazy that I ask him to dress up for dinner, even I had forgot that at home its more like dress up for about ten days though the holidays.. can’t even remember the last time I wore tights, laughed and said to mom, I guess you expect me to shave my legs to boot huh?

She laughed and said if you don’t, Neice #2 will notice and let you know that she can help and do it for you if you can’t reach! She helps my mom shave her legs and paint her toenails, and put lotion on her feet since she had her hip replaced.. Keener!

That’s it for today folks.. and in case you can’t tell yet, these posts are going to be newy ones for keeping my hubby and friends up to date on how my trip is going!