Ham and potato soup

My wonderful hard working husband is stuck at work babysitting. He works at an internet service provider that also has a data center. When people need in an engineer has to let them in and stay with them. Today a company is doing major work including running cables. They need 12 hours worth of work done to be exact, so that's where hubby is.

The kids and I are home of course. I was not getting the kids up at four to get the car. I have dinner partially in the crock pot though. The potatoes, ham, and friends are in there cooking away for now, and the white sauce will be added before eating. It's missing onion though. Ours was growing a little green. I was hoping to keep out of the grocery store for a little longer, but I have tons of stuff that needs onion on our food list.

Last night we had hamburger helper with venison instead of beef. It was ok. This is the first venison we've had in a year or so though, and we were getting spoiled on the elk that my dad gave us this summer from his freezer. I'll put more venison in chili at some point in this couple of weeks. It's better in chili or sloppy joes any way.

We got our gas bill today. Holy cow! It's been a cold over cast month here, and the bill was almost 200 dollars! I ran over turned the heat down and put socks on myself and the baby. It's sunny today anyway and we're getting some heat though the windows. It's been awhile though. We need to make a better effort to turn the heat down at night for the next couple of months. Heating bills seem to decrease for us around March. I would love to ask our landlord for new windows and maybe a door, but he's not working all the much right now. Not much construction in Michigan at the moment. Plus, the other side our our duplex has been vacant since July. Our big metal front door lets out massive amounts of heat though. Sucks! We're talking about new curtains for drafty windows. Thank goodness for the sewing machine we bought last year.

Hubby made one half diapers yesterday. We have a dozen Econobums, a few others, and now four daddy diapers. He'll probably finish the other tomorrow I'm guessing. I like his pocket diapers over the store ones. We're considering selling a few once we have a dozen for ourselves for our vacation fund. I really need to take pictures of them. They are so cute, and nice. Better than I could do that's for sure.