A Day in my life

It's 2018!  It's hard to believe another year has gone by.  Here's how I spent the first day of 2018.

This picture was taken before midnight, but I forgot to take one after midnight, so I thought I would show you our New Years Eve gathering.  We went to Bob's brother and sister-in-laws house for the evening, made supper there and had a nice time bringing in the new year with them.

They live close to us, so we weren't out too late.  I was in bed shortly after 1.

I slept in until almost 9 and then had a quiet start to the day. It's so nice to be able to have a quiet morning.  A friend gave me this Francine Rivers devotional for Christmas and I started it today.  I've always enjoyed her fiction and I can see that this is going to be good too.

 I used my new Instantpot to cook some eggs for the upcoming week.

In the meantime, poor Bob was outside using a roof rake to clean the snow off our roof. After that it was time to snow blow the driveway again.

 I've been doing a lot of cleaning things out since putting the Christmas things away.  This is Alaina and Ruby's room, but it's been a catchall of all sorts of things during the Christmas season.  I sorted it all out and Bob brought up this old school desk that he had fixed up for our kids to use when they were young.  I think the girls will enjoy drawing and coloring on it.

 I cleaned this cabinet out too.

And I worked on the closet in the room too.  I store all sorts of things in it.

While I was cleaning things out, I had the washing machine going and got 2 loads done.

I also cleaned out this cabinet in our family room downstairs.  I keep some paper products, cups, tablecloths... in these cupboards to use when we have groups over, and they had gotten quite jumbled. It feels so good to have them organized and I really enjoy doing it!

While I was doing this, Bob was working on his latest carving.

I had started some vegetable soup in the crockpot in the morning.  We had that with some cheese toast for supper.  We relaxed and watched a movie while we ate.

We had a nice relaxing evening.  It was a very good day to start the year with!