1. Introduction
2. A Few Photos of Our Adventure Yesterday
3. This Week for Dinner

Introduction

Can you believe it is already the new year? Have you made any resolutions? Or do you focus on a word or phrase of a year? I haven’t formally done that since 2018. In 2017, I focused on bucket lists. I had lost my sister and decided life was for the living. Then in 2018, I focused on Health because I was dealing with my gallbladder issues.

I am still praying about what 2024’s word of the year could be. Maybe I will be enlightened soon because well it is the new year.

A Few Photos of Our Adventure Yesterday

We discovered this holiday train display when we were in downtown Dayton, Ohio. I say a mural that said Greetings from Dayton that I needed to get a photo with and was pleasantly surprised there was this train display in that same building.

When you give your husband the phone to take a photo of you. You get a lot of photos of you doing random things.

At the music center, there is a holiday display. During the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a downtown department store would decorate their windows for Christmas. Every year I like to go see the displays. Although they are the same for the most part, there is always something new hidden in the displays. It becomes a treasure hunt to find the new item. We talked to a security guard this year who helped us with finding this year’s hidden item. He didn’t tell us what it was but told us to look from a kid’s view. We ended up finding all of the items in the 6 different displays. Some were fairly easy to others being almost impossible to find. It was a lot of fun.

My first year going to the display was in 2016 right after my sister died. Mom talked about the Christmas window displays. Once I found out they were putting them out, I knew we needed to see them. Now it’s a tradition.

This Week for Dinner

My local bakery decided to sell gluten-free sub platters for New Year’s Eve parties. I don’t get to partake in subs very often, so this is awesome.

Every year, we have pork and sauerkraut for our New Year’s Dinner. This year is no exception. My mother-in-law is making the potatoes to go along with the pork.

Chick-Fil-A at home
Naked chicken tenders, waffle fries, lemonade

Pantry chili, cornbread

We discovered we enjoy the gluten-free cornbread from Aldi. If you haven’t tried it out, please do.

Soy sauce pork chops, fried potatoes, veggie

When I looked in the freezer, I saw we had a package of pork chops. We haven’t had soy sauce pork chops for a while, so I decided that would delicious. I use tamari instead of soy sauce, so that it is gluten-free.

Barbecue chicken nachos OR barbecue chicken with whatever side they want to cook with it.

Hubby does not like nachos. I can’t eat those quick sides, so this is the best of both worlds. I can eat what I like while he gets to eat what he likes. Oldest will not eat the barbecue chicken but Youngest will. Youngest likes both the sides and nachos, so he can decide which one he wants to eat.

I have not included Saturday because I don’t know what I want to eat then.