Back in the swing of things

Hello world!

It's great to be back after a blogging hiatus. This wasn't like my last blogging hiatus where I was wasn't blogging because I was sad. I've just been busy getting back into the swing of things around here after my little Thanksgiving vacation. Work has been crazy, and we've been erranding, cleaning and catching up for the past few days. Here are the only pictures I have of my trip:

A snapshot of our GPS as we were driving through Connecticut

(I don't know why, but I really like that picture)

The outlet mall at 6:00 am on Black Friday (and my husband's arm, I think)

Also, our cat recently decided to stop using her litter box, so that's been fun. We took her to the vet last night to rule out a medical problem, and I was more than a little disappointed when the vet didn't find anything, since a medical problem would have been the easiest to fix. Now we have to watch her like a hawk, and it feels a lot like potty training a child. Luckily, the women at the shelter we adopted her from have been extremely helpful and attentive. I didn't realize that by adopting her from a shelter, we were getting access to an entire cat problem-solving support team. Fingers crossed the issue goes away very soon, and apologies if that story was way too much information..

Anyway...

I'm spending the morning relaxing with the hubby. Neither of us has work until later this afternoon, so we made pancakes for breakfast and stayed in our PJs.

That's the sweet potato casserole I made a few days ago at the top. As soon as it came out of the oven, my husband informed me that he wouldn't be eating any because he ate too much sugar over Thanksgiving weekend and wants to avoid it for a while. So now I'm left to eat this entire casserole myself, or let it go bad. It's delicious, but I feel like that kid from Matilda who had to eat the entire chocolate cake himself. I also tried to be cute and crafty and poured the pancake batter into star-shaped cookie cutters. As you can see, they're pretty mediocre. 

I'm going to stretch and chill for the rest of the morning so I'm rested for work tonight. It's almost the weekend, and I'm hoping we can make a trip to Alexandria tomorrow (one of my favorite places around here). 

Have a great day!

xo