Sunday Dinner, January 3, 2010

Boy, it felt odd typing "2010". I haven't had to write it on a check yet. Hope I don't forget and write 2009 a little later when I write out the rent check.

On to Sunday Dinner, though I have to confess that I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner this week. My sisters and I will have a conference after church Sunday afternoon and decide where we're going out to eat.

What's for Sunday Dinner at your place this week? Share your plans or menu in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.Most of the reason I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner this week is that I went to Jonesboro today to do my monthly Walmart shopping and pay the cable bill and I'm wiped out. My knees are throbbing and I just don't feel like standing in the kitchen and cooking tonight.

After we got home from shopping I had to put away all my purchases and do some other chores which really didn't do a thing to make my knees feel any better. I just took a hot shower, put on my warm pajamas and my pink fuzzy socks, and my snuggly fleece robe that my dear SisterFriend GREENEYES sent me for my birthday, all the way from Canada.

Now I'm warm and clean but still TARD.It's been really cold for Northeast Arkansas today. The temp never made it above freezing today and it's supposed to stay cold like this for at least the next week. I know the teens and twenties isn't all that cold for my more northern readers, but for Arkansas it's fairly cold. It does dip below O Fahrenheit here sometimes, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I'd much rather it be cold than hot so this is fine weather in my opinion. I hope it kills a bunch of insect pests this Winter. It hasn't gotten cold enough for long enough to make any kind of impact on insect populations the last several years so I hope it makes up for it this Winter.

We're even forecast to have some snow flurries tonight and a couple of days next week, which is great! I wish we'd have at least a couple of really good snows but that remains to be seen. I want some snow cream but I'm not holding my breath.Lamar and I rode with my sister Ducky to her son Danny's house for New Year's day. Danny and his wife Mikki cooked a traditional Southern New Year's dinner, which we eat for the midday meal. They fixed dried blackeyed peas cooked with hog jowl bacon for seasoning, cornbread, mixed greens, fried hog jowl and pineapple upside down cake for dessert.

It was great! I really appreciated not having to cook and I spent a lot of my time there playing with their almost 3 year old son, Seth, which was a bonus. A kid to play with makes for cheap entertainment for me. ;o)My daughter JESSICA'S anticipated new job seems to have fallen through for the moment, but she's still looking at some other options. Since she'll only have one income from now on she needs to find a better paying job and also a cheaper place to live while she continues to work at a local hospital as a certified nurse's aide.

She may be moving into an apartment here in my town that is literally just a stone's throw away from me, which would help cut down on her driving so much and her gas bill. Many changes are in store for Jessica, Emmy and the rest of us in 2010.

Jessica and I very much appreciate your kind thoughts, comments and especially your prayers as we deal with all the changes that her pending divorce brings.

I love you all, dear family and friends.May we all enjoy good health, joy, prosperity and all God's blessings in 2010. May God richly bless you with all you need and enough to share.