a day at H.O.M.E.

Today was one of those days that was as perfect as it can get for me! After working till 11:00 last night, I got to bed late and slept in late. Working weekends does have one benefit - a day off in the middle of the week! It feels luxurious to stay at home while everyone else is at work. Especially when I'm the one who has to go to work while others have snow days!

For breakfast, I made a recipe of banana chocolate chip muffins I've been hungry for, so now there's some in the freezer to pack in my lunch. Taking a walk was the next thing on my list. A few lazy snowflakes fluttered down as I went, but I was warm and it was refreshing. This is the first time I was able to walk this week because of bad weather. Amazingly enough, last week I made it 6 days in a row - yay!! My feet had really been suffering so a couple day's rest and some new shoes will hopefully put an end to that. I thought about taking a nap afterwards but decided to accomplish something worthwhile. Cleaning and reorganizing closets was on my February to-do list, so I proceeded to purge out a bunch of stuff. After that I allowed myself to take a nap and woke up feeling rested and content. One item was needed from Boyer's to make supper. I spent some time in the kitchen making a favorite meal - baked tilapia, rice pilaf, and steamed broccoli. It was incredibly yummy. We polished it off with whoopie pie bars for dessert. Cliff loves having them for his lunch and I had enough supper leftovers to make four lunch containers for him. When I'm not tired from work I do enjoy cooking, which I had almost forgotten. The rest of the evening was spent doing my favorite wintertime activity (can you guess it? 😆) putting puzzle together and listening to a book.

For those lucky(?) enough to be at home most of the time, a day like this is nothing special. Since I don't have that privilege, it's rejuvenating! But I'm still glad I have a job and wouldn't want to be at home every day.