Saturday, January 23

We had a busy day, once we got up and at it. We slept til 8 a.m., and then after breakfast, I did a treadmill session and resistance exercises. After I was ready for the day, Hubbie, Mother, and I went to the card shop to get anniversary and Valentine cards. I was able to use two coupons amounting to $5.50 for the cards...a buy-two-get-one-free one, and a $3 one for points earned.





Besides the cards, we took advantage of the store's 75% off clearance sale and bought a couple of tins of peppermint cocoa mix, a holiday scented reed diffuser, and a movie on DVD.





From there, we went to the WDCS, where I picked up an 8x10 frame for one of the portrait photos of my kids, which I'll hang on the stairwell wall, and a pad of black and white scrapbook elements. At our Thursday scrapbook club meeting, Mother and I admired some really attractive greeting cards that a member was making from some of these elements, so we want to try our hand at making some of them.



Back home after a lunch of leftover bean and cabbage soup from last night's supper, with PB&J sandwiches, Mother and I made batches of hand cream, salt and oil scrub, and bath salt. This was a fun project that we both enjoyed. We started by washing bottles and jars that we'd need, and then we mixed food dye into containers of Epsom Salt



When the bottles and jars were dry, we filled a couple of smaller jars with coarse sea salt and baby oil to make a scrub that is good for softening rough elbows and feet. We then mixed together a jar of vitamin E cream, a jar of petroleum jelly, and a bottle of baby lotion to make hand and body cream. Finally, we layered white, blue, red, yellow and green Epsom Salt in pretty bottles. The bath salt is not only soothing in a bath, but it is also great for soaking tired feet.



Mother took part of the hand and body cream, salt scrub, and bath salt home, and I kept some to enjoy. I keep a jar of the hand cream on my bedroom nightstand to use every night. It has not only made my hands soft, but it has helped fade the brown spots. I love it for my feet too, because it has softened callouses and eliminated dry, flaky skin.



Later, for supper, I put together a quadruple batch of whole wheat pancake mix. Hubbie did the honors of making the pancakes, while Mother heated sugar-free syrup, cooked microwave turkey bacon, and heated dinner plates, and I fried eggs for all of us. It was a very satisfying meal.



After supper, Mother and I wrapped individual pancakes in wax paper, and put them in plastic storage bags for the freezer. There are enough pancakes for several meals, now, which will come in handy on busy days.



Mother went home after that, and Hubbie and I watched our favorite college basketball team play to a demoralizing loss against a vastly superior team. Boo. This was an afternoon game that I recorded on DVR, so that we could watch it after supper.

We spent the rest of the evening after the game watching one-hour shows I'd recorded.