Another Visit with Cousins on Monday

Crocheted Coasters

I had another lovely visit with my cousins on Monday.  I This time, we took the pictures at the beginning, before we ate lunch!  LOL.  I made a sausage stir fry to take along with a jar of my tomato chutney.  V had made a lovely lunch with rice, pork curry, potato curry, okra cooked with red bell peppers, a beetroot curry, and there was some of the fried dry fish leftover from earlier.  At the last minute, her husband fried some pappadum to have with the lunch and, of course, I was told to serve myself a portion to bring home with me, which I did!  There was fresh pineapple for dessert, but, I brought my portion home because I was too full for dessert immediately after lunch.

I wanted to give cousin M a very small gift, keeping in mind that she had a full suitcase of stuff to take back and weight limits to take into consideration.  Rather than buy her something, I decided to crochet her a set of coasters - very small and very lightweight so she could tuck them into a corner of her suitcase.  She was very pleased with the gift and told me that she still had a grey and white scarf I had knitted and given her on a previous visit - I had forgotten that I had made a scarf for her!  

I stopped at the pharmacy, on my way home, to pick up my inhaler that was ready.  I didn't buy anything else while I was at the drugstore.  The dollar store next door was closed and already, there was some graffiti outside the building, which is sad.  

After I came home, I did a load of laundry, watered the back garden, accepted another package for friend R, and took the trash cans to the curb (set them up outside the driveway as there was no room along the curb).  Later, I chatted with my daughter.  She had a good first day of the conference, which started in the afternoon and concluded with a vegetarian dinner (apparently, in order to minimize the carbon foot print of the conference, but, no doubt, also as a cost cutting measure as vegetables are cheaper than meat!)  The dinner consisted of an assortment of Indian, Chinese, and Western food, according to daughter, probably because it was an international conference.   Daughter said she did get a mild migraine, probably due to the time change affecting her sleep patterns and the stress of flying, but, it went away, later on.

Today, I am grateful for:

- Another lovely get together with my cousins
- A safe drive to and from the lunch with cousins
- V sending me home with a container of food
- My medications being available
- Daughter being OK

Today's joyful activity was getting together with my cousins over lunch.

Plans for Tuesday include taking R's packages to her.

Meal Plan for the Week:

Meal plans for the week will include sausage stir fry (with rice or noodles), the food cousin V sent home with me, chicken curry (from the freezer, thawing in the fridge) with rice and moringa curry (also from the freezer); and the stuffed chicken breast that neighbor S gave me earlier which will be made over into a chicken casserole with a can of cream of chicken soup,  and leftovers.  There might be some breakfasts for dinner, too, as sometimes, I have my main meal of the day for brunch.  

I am going to post this before I lose my internet connection!

I hope everyone is having a good week!