I learned today that doing laundry on the first day of the new year is bad luck. The saying is something about washing your luck down the drain. My mother makes black-eyed peas because her husband is from the south and this is his family’s tradition. I’ve seen many people making and eating pork and sauerkraut.

Big Man and I usually start the new year with a fancy prime rib dinner we make at home. It’s like our first date of the year!!

Unfortunately, this year we did not have our traditional first night date night. Right after Christmas, we both got sick with some sort of stomach bug or flu. And at the same time, our daughter was moving back in after grad school (we moved a few years ago and she has not lived with us). This is exciting but required some shuffling to give her her own room. Fun times!!

So, while we are feeling better we had done nothing in the way of preparation for the work week. To know me is to know I NEED my work prep, as well as my meal planning and prep to feel ready for the week ahead.

Even though it’s New Year’s Day I have prep to do!

The menu was planned. The laundry was cleaned. The lessons were even planned.