hi Sara

Sorry I haven't been around.  I am sick again.  I have strep throat.  So our week of work didn't go as planned but we did get a lot done.  Not anywhere close to what I wanted but way more than we would have if we hadn't gone into it trying to be ambitious.  Later I want to make a list of all the accomplishments so I'll feel better!

 

Just wanted to check in.  I've been on antibiotics for more than 24 hours so I think this should be much better by tomorrow.  I called my doctor at 9AM on Sunday morning.  I felt bad but to me getting rid of strep is urgent.  Would it be too weird to send him a thank you note for calling in a prescription for me?  I feel like "urgent" is a relative word and I could have just waited 'til today but I wanted it gone and to feel better, plus the kids had a dentist appointment that required 3 hours roundtrip driving today so I knew it would be hard to schedule a dr apptmt in there too. 

 

Have to go make tacos now.  The beef is already fried so easy peasy dinner.  My MIL has requested a ton of frozen meals like I did one year for her.  I know she's thinking that's an easy and inexpensive gift but this is the time of year I don't cook much and I bet 30 meals will end up costing almost $100 in ingredients just for her servings not to mention that I won't be able to make just one or two servings of most of the things I cook, so I'll be making double recipes and freezing a few servings for her and a few servings for Scott's lunches.  It'd be much cheaper to just make her a bunch of the same thing but I know she doesn't really want more than one or two servings of each food.  It will save us on going out to eat though.  But I'm time crunched so we won't be having hot dog and spaghetti nights - we'll be eating something big every night if I do this and some "real" meals I make cost more than fast food.  Probably healthier tho.  Tacos is cheating but I figure with her living alone she might not even be motivated to fry ground beef so I'm going to freeze some with a couple of shells, some sour cream, and some cheese all packaged separately and she'll only have to make sure she has tomato and lettuce in the house.  Mostly what I make will be "real" food though since anything super easy she could just make herself - I know she wants the dinners I make in the crockpot and freezable casseroles and stuff like that.  I also won't be able to make our favorite, grilled chicken, since it doesn't freeze well (tastes like crap after you thaw it) - unless I make some dinners along with our own separate dinner and just freeze the other stuff for later (like make the hamburger rice and freeze both hers and ours while we eat grilled chicken that night).  Hmm, that might work!

 

Just took my OTC drug cocktail (advil and tylenol) that keeps my throat from swelling up.  This time I noticed that when everything wore off I could actually swallow even though it hurt so I know I'm getting better - yay!