I am astonished that we’re halfway through November already. I wish there was a way to slow time down. The best alternative is to pause for a few moments and savor the blessings along the way. Some of us do so by joining in with Susanne and friends at Living to Tell the Story on Fridays. Feel free to join in!
1. Puttering is what I call doing a series of odd jobs around the house, the kind that are useful but not urgent. For me, puttering this week included cleaning out the catch-all basket on the counter, assembling items to take to the thrift store, removing things from an old frayed purse into a new one while cleaning out and sorting through them, etc.
2. Veteran’s Day. I am so thankful for those willing to serve our country in the most sacrificial ways.
3. Dinner with Jesse. We don’t see Jesse, my youngest, as often as we see Jason, Mittu, and Timothy. He lives a bit farther away. When we found out he had Veteran’s Day off, we invited him over for dinner. J&M couldn’t make it. While we missed them, and we enjoy time all together, it’s also nice to visit one-on-one. Jesse likes salmon, and we had some in the freezer from a half-price sale, so Jim grilled those while I made Red Lobster-style baked potatoes and mixed vegetables. I make Choco-Peanut Butter Dreams about once a year in the fall and decided to do that as well. I sent several home with Jesse and brought some to J&M Wednesday and still had several to munch on through the week. (The recipe is included with My Favorite Cookie Recipes.)
4. Easy fixes for weird technological glitches. One day my Word grammar checker suddenly started making suggestions in French, including marking words as misspelled and giving me French alternatives. Of all the weird things! I poked around, trying to find the place to reset the language for it, then finally Googled it. Then my phone stopped receiving e-mail from either account. A quick search and reentering of my password had it working again. I am learning to search first before texting my children for help. 🙂
Then, right before leaving for an appointment Thursday, my computer started making weird tapping noises. Jim rebooted it, and that took care of whatever the problem was—or at least stopped the noise.
5. A good eye doctor appointment. Everything is about the same as last year, except I’ve had an odd shape in my vision for a few weeks. He didn’t see any problems when he dilated my eyes, so that was a relief.
Bonus: My youngest sister has been unemployed for ages after being laid off. After much prayer and searching, she got a job this week!
Stray Thoughts 
Such good news about your sister finding a job! Congratulations. She must be very happy.
I suppose if my computer was giving me weird corrections, French would be a nice language to do it! Or perhaps Italian?
I’m glad that Jesse was able to get over for a lunch and dessert. The meal menu sounded wonderful!
Computer issues can be such a frustration! If I can’t fix things by doing a “restart” or rebooting, then I’m lost.
Have a great weekend.
The cookies look yummy! 🙂 November is flying by. We’ve already started decorating for Christmas. 🙂 Have a blessed weekend!
Your meal that you and Jim fixed when Jesse was over for dinner sounds delicious…and your cookies look SO good.
Congratulations on figuring out all of your techy stuff without having to call your kids first. That’s something I need to do more of.
Glad you had a good week and hope your weekend is enjoyable.
It’s a true blessing to be able to figure out what’s wrong with all these techy items, isn’t it? I practice French daily on my phone and sometimes forget to switch the keyboard back to English and find myself typing a text in French to a friend if I’m still in learning mode. haha
Praise God for good eye results and that your sister has a new job!
How nice your son could come to dinner and those cookies!! YUMMY. I am now in the mood to bake some! I think I will next week and bring them to MA for our Thanksgiving week. Some of us don’t always want pie and it’s nice to have other options. Thanks for the recipe!
Happy weekend
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Your week sounds lovely!
It was, thank you!
Yes, I’m with you, Barbara, this was a good week for puttering with a whole bunch of little stuff that needed to be sorted, organized, rearranged, cleaned, and closed up for the winter. These are my favorite weeks and my favorite homekeeping tasks.
A quiet dinner with Jesse sounds like it was just the right thing (including that wonderful dessert). I’m glad you had that time with him.
Good news on your eye dr appt. And congrats to your sister on getting that job!
Have a good weekend. Willow
I don’t get to see my oldest daughter as often as my younger daughter so I understand how nice it is to be able to spend time with them. Congratulations to your sister. Ha! French…so wacky. Or should I say farfelu?
I did the same as you! The little collection of bags for the thrift store made it to its destination 🙂 Puttering = doing things that don’t make it to the To Do List.
You’ve got me looking up those baked potatoes. Sounds like a perfect fall meal and time with your youngest.
Oh boy. French typos?? Glad all your weird glitches got sorted!
Many many congratulations to your sister! With several family members long out of work, I know what a big relief it is.
Yay for a good appointment and for your sister’s job! Your dinner with your son sounds nice too; yes, often it’s nice with just one because you can talk with him more. Those cookies look divine!! Thanks for the recipe; I just pinned that post since each of those looks delicious.
Sounds like you had a wonderful week! Glad you got to see your youngest for the day. Also good news that the eye appointment went well and that you sister found a job. Job hunting is hard! Always a relief to find a new job.
Those cookies look delicious! Yum!
We’ve definitely been mostly puttering around at our house lately, and I’m glad it’s finally looking a bit more organized lately. 🙂
Group family time is wonderful but so is that one on one time. Glad you had that with Jesse. I need to do some major “puttering”. The cookies look delicious! Glad your eye appt went well and yay for the job for your friend.