Just Checking In Today - It's Going To Be A Busy, Busy Day

I hope all of  you had a wonderful Christmas and had an opportunity to have some "down time". DH and I enjoyed a relaxed day, and yesterday (the 26th) we went shopping. DH needed another pair of pants and a few other clothing items, and he wanted me to get a few things also, so it was rather fun to be in a store without the massive Christmas pressure of the past month or so. 

Today, however, we're right back into the deep end with the first day of our year-end Four Day Sale. I'm hoping we'll have good sales numbers, we certainly could use the opportunity to end this VERY expensive year on a more positive note. It was a heck of a year all around, and adding the necessity of getting new phones purchased, installed and activated was almost impossible. Still, we succeeded. Nonetheless, I'll be happy to see the end of 2024 and will welcome 2025 - the FINAL year (not even a full year) of being in business. Whether DH and I will survive this next challenge still remains in the air. 

I've received simply lovely cards from many of you, my readers and long-distance friends. I love each and every one of them and they are decorating my mantle and making me joyous. My dear friend from Finland - your package arrived intact although the chocolate was broken in a few places. Of course broken chocolate is never a problem  - LOL. Thank you for the sweet gift! 

Tonight, having realized that I really didn't have much in the refrigerator to eat right now, I'll be throwing together a quick vegetable soup. I usually like to let those simmer for a while to really get the flavor deeply into the broth, but time will not be my friend for this, so it might just be tasty veggies but without a lot of seasoning in the broth. I might grab some bouillon to push the flavor profile up a bit. 

So that's the news today, and since I'm doing this quickly on my laptop at the shop instead of my main computer at home, there are no pictures today. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on a normal schedule. Have an excellent 27th of December and I'll be back tomorrow to wrap up the week. Slava Ukraini. 

Oh! And my new mixer didn't fit where I wanted it to, but DH moved a few things around in the kitchen and it has a lovely home in the cabinet below my oven now. I can hardly wait to play with it. LOL