Making supper for the three of us...

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

After waking this morning, it was pretty much a normal day around here.  I got up a couple of times, doing small household chores (folding towels and putting them away, putting dry dishes away) and playing on the pute, as well as playing on the pute, but mostly just lazed in bed as I do most days, keeping my back rested and stabilized.  If I can choose when to put my back through hell, then I will be the one to choose when to do so, and no one else.  Is that mean of me?
For some reason, when I was making my lunch, I decided that potato pancakes with, or for, my supper tonight sounded terrifically good, so I made a batch of instant mashed potatoes and sat them off to the side so they could cool.  I finished making my grilled cheese (three slices of Colby Jack!) and that was my lunch.

Ron got home, and Josh walked in not two minutes later.  Josh was here to put (copies) of all my pictures on my pute onto flash drives, because a couple of times I've come back out into the living room, my pute has been off and come back on all by itself and I'm afraid it's getting ready to crash, and I wanted to save my pictures, but I have no idea how many can fit onto a flash drive, and Josh can "read" that kind of stuff.  Today was the best day for him to stop, so he did.
Ron cut his cabbage up - I was going to have Josh do that, so I could get it started cooking, but Ron got home first, so he did it.  I got supper started as Josh did what he needed to do at the pute and Ron watched his news.  I made Ron his shredded cabbage dish/meal with cut-up smoked sausage (in it), and I made me smoked sausage (cut into 2-inch long pieces) and the potato pancakes.  Josh got some of both!
It was a really good feeling to make just enough food for just the three of us - I haven't done that in a very, very long time.  It's been either just me and Ron, or the whole family, not just the three of us.  As one of my friends says, "Life is good!"

When I put my food in on MFP, something happened that hasn't happened in a long time - MFP hollered at me!  Yes, I was over 500 calories short for the day, but at the same time, I feel full and happy, so I am okay with that.