Life: It Goes On - April 20

Happy Easter! We had the most low key Easter ever. Miss H had to work most of the weekend so couldn't make it up, Mini-him and Miss C went north to be with her family, and no siblings or nieces/nephews came up. So I made most of the family traditional favorites and the Big Guy and I took Easter dinner over to my dad's to have our meal with him.  If you know my dad at all, you'll know that he was very appreciative of the visit and the meal, but what he was most excited about was the chocolate pie. 

Last Week I: 

Listened To: The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel. It won't surprise anyone to know that I didn't figure out who done it even if I never did trust that person. I don't have of my holds coming up soon so I'm going to have to spend some time this evening looking for something that's available to start tomorrow. 

Watched: Some more of Only Murders In The Building. 

Read: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. A lot of great lessons in this one but maybe too much supernatural for me. Still pondering that. 

Made: Ham, cheesy hash brown casserole (a.k.a. funeral potatoes), lemonade "salad" (that's the name it came with and we eat it with the meal but it's really more of another dessert), deviled eggs, and that pie. I make Ree Drummond's French Silk Pie. It's so easy, but so decadent. The key to this one is patience. My dad doesn't eat a lot these days, but he ate two pieces of this pie! 

Enjoyed: Dinner with Mini-him and Miss C. After we went for  drinks and had a strange encounter with a very drunk, strung out young man who reminded me why we rarely go to bars. Certainly not to bars that are frequented by people in their twenties and thirties! Although he did call me "adorable" and no one's called me that in at least 40 years so there's that! 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: With the arrival of Easter, 40 Bag in 40 Days is officially over. But as part of that, I started doing some work on organizing our photos so that will continue this week. Can I just tell you how much I wish I had at least written the year on the back of all photos? It is so darn hard to remember if a given photo was taken when your child was eight or when they were nine! Heck, I can't even remember what grade they were in in the school pictures! This will take the better part of my free time this week. 

Thinking About: What great kids we have. I love that we enjoy them as much as adults as we did when they were cute little people. 

Feeling: You know you're old when you can tweak a knee stepping up a 2" curb, which I did on Thursday. I could hardly get out to my car after work. Spent Friday working from home so I can baby it and have taken it easy most of the weekend. I'm happy to report that it's feeling much better now, but it's so frustrating that the littlest things can take me out these days. 

Looking forward to: Book club. I know I said that last week but we had to reschedule. 

Question of the week: Does your family have a big Easter extravaganza? 

**The theme of this weeks book reviews will, very obviously, be Paris