Well, I've finally recovered from all the birthday celebrations. It's been a fun and busy few days!
Monday my mom, aunt and uncle drove from South Texas to get here in time for my birthday dinner. We had a little time to visit before going to Ted and Alex's house, then we all headed down the road to the party.
Morgan and Alex had all the food ready and the place looked so colorful and festive. They both worked so hard to make this a special night and it was way more than that. The food was delicious! We had tamales, tacos, beans, queso, homemade salsa, street corn and probably more that I can't remember.
After dinner we had an ice cream bar, with ice cream and several toppings. But then Alex surprised me with my very own ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins, which is the same cake I used to request every year when I was a kid - Jamocha Almond Fudge.
The gifts they gave me were all so precious and it truly was the best birthday I've ever had. I have felt loved and so blessed this year.
🎂
Yesterday I woke up and had zero energy. I felt exhausted and just wanted to do nothing, so I practically did just that.
I did manage to pick up a salad from Schlotzsky's for lunch, then came home and did more of nothing until early afternoon when I finally got out some cookbooks and made a menu and grocery list for the week to come. I placed a grocery order and we picked it up later that evening.
Oh, and I also managed to fix a crockpot of Lasagna Soup (thanks for the recipe Carrie!) which turned out to be absolutely delicious! But, because I didn't have lasagna noodles in the pantry, I used broken-up spaghetti noodles instead and it turned out to be amazing. This was probably one of the easiest recipes ever and one of the tastiest.
I did two loads of laundry, put away all the groceries that evening and that was all for the day. Not a total loss, but not overly productive.
As I was resting during the day, I started to feel that familiar feeling of guilt creep up, the one that says "you should be up doing something!" but I told it to shut up and I kept resting and taking it easy. Sometimes you just need a day to do nothing.
I also ordered a book from Barnes and Noble and asked David to grab it on the way home, which he did. I mean...this is the life! 😅 hahaha! I rarely do things like that, but it was just that kind of day.
We had just been to B&N the day before and I saw this book in the window and it intrigued me, so when B&N sent me an email with a coupon...well...I had to have it.
It doesn't surprise me that your body needed rest after all the excitement.
ReplyDeleteThat was a lot of busyness!
ReplyDeleteThe soup sounds so good, I'll be trying it.
The book looks good too!
That sounds like a wonderful birthday! I had a fairly do-nothing day yesterday and managed to read the bulk of my book all afternoon; finishing just as supper was ready.
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