Falling into a new routine

The leaves are changing and the kids are back in school... 

9/27/14 - headed to a Griz game

M and EW had a great time fishin' over in Forks, bringing home some fish for the freezer. I just used some of it to make a baked Salmon cake recipe I found in one of my Taste of Home magazines, courtesy of Barb Bader! 


I sent M back up to the 907 on 9/29...man that was a long day!  M had to be at MSO airport by 6a.m., which means we have to leave Hamilton by 4:45a at the latest.  Add to that, I start work at 10 a.m., so there was no use in me coming back down to Hamilton only to literally turn right back around and head back up to Missoula.  That would have been a 250 mile day when all was said and done.  So I went to my favorite Sbux and hung out for a while reading and sipping a hot chocolate.  However, by the last two hours of my work day, I was fried.  I barely remember my drive home.  In his defense, when he had made these plans, I wasn't working yet, so we didn't have any idea of what the day would hold by then.  Hopefully M has planned better departure times now that we know my schedule.  

I am getting into my own groove here with the 10-6 schedule.  I have learned that I do not like to eat so late when I get home, so I have been packing a sandwich for the drive home.  So far it has been working out.  The only thing I am falling down on the job on is getting back into the gym, or finding a program that will work for me.  Maggie and I have been walking on the weekends, but I need to do something else during the week days.  I am anxious to see what daylight savings times brings this way in regards to morning light, see if I can get some walks in the in the a.m.  If not, there is a gym in Hamilton that I was going to check out.

There is a Griz game this weekend, and I have invited my friend Tracy that I used to work with at FMCC in Bellevue.  She is attending the University and has been for a few years, getting a BA and now working on her Master's, yet she has never been to a Griz Football game yet!  So I will gladly take on this challenge.  I am going to board the babies just over night, dropping them off on my way up to ZooTown, do the game - spending the night at Tracy's, then pick them back up on my way home Sunday.

That is all the news I can think of to share...it has been kinda quiet this month.  For which I am happy about. Have to send out the email to the McGroup about Turkey weekend.  As of last Thanksgiving's Proclamation, when the McKitchen was under construction and the Avarlaughlin's offered to host, it was decreed that Thanksgiving was going to be a rotational occasion, and it was going to be held in the 406 next AND it was hosts/hostesses choice for the meal options.  I said great, we'll have pizza!  I have NEVER wanted to host Thanksgiving, just because of the pressure one gets under to cook the perfect turkey and make the perfect stuffing, but Mom makes hers with...and it has to be this way because that's the way your father wants it etc...  Please believe me when I say, I love the Thanksgiving Holiday, and I love getting together with family....I just don't do well under pressure in the kitchen. 

Ok peeps!  Don't eat too many treats before Halloween.... TTFN!