Domestic Thursday??

I did nothing for Christmas today.....no making cards, no wrapping presents, no decorating, nothing. Instead, after coming back from the hospital at 11 this morning, I got busy doing up some long neglected housework. I need a good solid month, but since I don't have that much time, I am scrambling to clear away the cobwebs and the dust bunnies so I can toss a few Christmas decorations around. I vacuumed the entrance/computer room, dining room, kitchen and hallway. I have not done the living room yet because my poor Sweetie was resting and had dozed off. The floors also need a good mop as well, but since I have to clean them again after I decorate, I will wait until then. I folded up all the clothes I washed yesterday and put them away.

In the kitchen, I washed a dishwasher load of dishes, cleaned the stove top, took the kitchen compost out to the main composter and sorted through the recycling. I made vegetable stock in the crock pot overnight by using up some of the "peelings" that I keep in the freezer. I am getting quite a stock pile of those. I will freeze the stock in two cup measures to cook with rice or make some vegetable soup. I " found" the bag of free McIntosh apples that we were given about 3 or 4 weeks ago. If I had put them in the fridge, they would have been fine. But I don't have much space in my fridge because two households are using it and it is considered prime real estate. As a result, I had to throw away one whole apple and I had to cut away some spoiled spots on others. I peeled, quartered and sliced the whole lot. I used half of them to make an apple crumble and the other half went into the freezer for later. I am upset with myself for having waited so long to do anything with these apples, but until today, they just were not a priority. It will taste very good though after dinner tonight, which I have decided will be some of the pork chops we were gifted in that box of meat from our neighbour. I still have half of a pasta bake that I made for dinner last night, but that will be better tomorrow when we have a late appointment with Radiation. I will just need to warm it up when we get home.

Still warm from the oven

Day 7 and 8 from my Advent calendar.....a sharpener for the lip liner I received on Day 6 and a bar of coconut soap. Aren't you guys just lovin' this? I know I am. I am carefully putting all the boxes back in the calendar so I can maybe reuse it for someone else.