I guess, it's been nearly a month since my last entry.  The holidays are now over, sadly.  We had a nice Christmas and New Years; along with all the other activities surrounding that time.  I'll do a quick catch up....

In December there was 2 church plays.  Our youngest daughter goes with my Aunt and Uncle to their youth group and so she was in their program this year.  They basically did readings, singing and played the bells.  I love to hear them play the bells.  The second play was at our church.  A friend of mine directed it and I stood around and felt helpless helped her as much as I could.  It turned out great!  It was called "Cooking Up Christmas".  Both of the girls were in it.  The oldest was the main character.  It went extremely well.

Christmas went by quickly.  We had a nice Christmas; quiet, but nice. 

New Years we went to a friends home to celebrate.  There were many families from the church.  We had a wonderful time playing games and visiting. 

We went bowling with some friends.

Our friend is engaged to a lady from Thailand. She is actually American, but has been in Thailand as a missionary for the past 15 years or so. She came home for Christmas and came over and cooked up some Thai food for us and another family. I enjoyed it all very much!

The first pan to the left has a sauce cooking in it. It was a peanutty sauce that was for on the satay chicken. The middle pan is actually a soup that has lemon grass in it. The 3rd pan is green curry chicken. The back pan that has a lid on it has brown rice.

This is only a few of the packages she had.  I did not like the Wasabi green peas!  But I loved the other nuts beside it! 

This is Satay Chicken.  I'm not sure what the batter was.... but we grilled it on the grill for a time.  It was very cold and dark out, so we brought it in and finished cooking it in a skillet. 

She left the leftovers here.... I enjoyed them for the next two days!!!  Actually the next morning I got up and was hungry for it, so I had some for breakfast.  Nothing like spicy food for breakfast! 

This week we have been busy trying to get back into routine.  It's been hard over the past couple of months.  We have only been getting 4 day weeks in.  Thankfully, we are not too behind because we started earlier this year, but it means we wont finish as early as we had hoped.  So.... we really need to stay focused and keep those 5 day weeks going.  

DD15 made it for the High School play again this year.  So, her practices started and that will keep us busy.  The play will be the first weekend in April.  She's excited because she gets to sing a solo this year.  How exciting! 

Speaking of needing to stay focused, I should get going.  Have a blessed day!