The week that was

A week without blogging.  Sigh.

What have I been doing that's taken so much time?  Life.  Just life.  As a friend of ours used to say, "That's life in the breakdown lane." 

So let's see if I can break it down:
Saturday:
*Enjoyed a Dunkin' Donuts date with my hubby.  Those Boston Cream croissant donuts?  Dangerous!

*Spent the rest of the morning in the kitchen.  Made 3 types of cookies to take to a cookie swap at the library; froze them.  More about this later, but here's one of the kinds I made:

Date-Nut Confections

* Spent the afternoon in the kitchen cooking and baking for Sunday's harvest dinner to celebrate our church's 36th anniversary.  Here's what I brought:
 Scalloped Onions
Buttercup Squash and Apple Bake
and also a mince-apple-cranberry pie for which I hope to share the recipe soon.

* Listened to a nail-biter of a high school football playoff game as I cooked.  My team won!
* That evening, went to celebrate a two-year-old's birthday with my daughter, son-in-law, and family.

One of our gifts to our little granddaughter was this:

An Owl Hot Pack which had been requested since the 2-year-old keeps borrowing her older siblings' owls.

Sunday: 
* Enjoyed a great day of Sunday School, morning worship service, harvest dinner, and an afternoon service which included a presentation by our Patch the Pirate Club.
* Visited my dad at the nursing home.

Monday:
* Did loads of laundry and other housework.
* Went to the dentist for a cleaning
* Crushed peppermints, made frosting and frosted these cookies:
Peppermint Meltaway Cookies for a cookie swap that night.

Photo from Taste of Home

 * Reheated wonderful harvest dinner leftovers for supper.
* Attended cookie swap.  My peppermint cookies were a big hit.  I'll blog about them in my Christmas kitchen, hopefully soon.

Tuesday:
* Housework, etc.
* Put supper in the slow cooker.
* Made a 3-bean salad for supper.
* Went to Dollar Tree to find more items for the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes
* Went for a walk with a friend.
* Had a nice phone chat with my daughter in Nevada.
* Made 2 more of the little owls -- stuffed them with fiberfill to use as little stuffed animals for the shoeboxes.

  * Packed two shoeboxes.

Wednesday:
* Went for a walk with a friend.
* Worked on my Sunday School lesson.
* Planned the week's menus
* Made my grocery list.
* Housework, laundry, etc.
* Attended midweek prayer service at church.

Thursday:
 * Put soup in slow cooker.
* Did grocery shopping.
* Drove to the nursing home (an hour each way)
* Attended family support group.
* Started work on another stuffed owl.
* Housework, laundry, etc.
* Paid my dad's bills.
* Baked biscuits for supper.
* Shopped at Walmart in evening.

... And those are just the highlights, if you will.  There was plenty else going on!

That brings us to today, and I finally get to post here.  So thankful!