12-23-13

7:30am - 8:25am

I've been feeling tired these last couple of days

trying to lay down and take naps when I can

to get rested to get things done for Christmas.

The shakiness sort of went away but I feel

weaker than normal which I guess is understandable

when your body is fighting an infection.

The main thing is that I try to keep going

to make this Christmas happen.

Yesterday I had my mother and father-in-law

along with my nephew come over for a Christmas visit.

My nephew has never been to our home

so that was a nice surprise.

I think he's around 19 years old.

We exchanged gifts but the adults all decided

we wouldn't open them til Christmas day.

I baked a ham yesterday just so we'd have something

to munch on a couple days before Christmas for meals.

We bought this ham and ended up getting

a second ham from hubby's supervisor at work

which is brining and will be made Christmas day.

The first brined ham turned out really good.

I was going to add seasoning and a glaze on top

but thought it tasted just fine the way it was

so skipped that part.

Today is my baking day.

So far I have made rice krispies fudge

and dough to make jam thumbprint cookies.

This dough has to be in the fridge a couple

of hours before baking.

Then I still have somoa cookies,

oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

and my pumpkin bread needs it's drizzled tops put on.

Here's my rice krispie fudge cooling.

Instead of making just regular fudge I try

to stretch what I have further to make more

by adding things like cereal or marshmallows.

Hubby finds pots and pans at work that we at times

take to the scrap metal place.

This time around he found a nice, heavy duty,

aluminum cookie sheet.  I salvaged it from

the scrap pile and kept it to bake on.

My pans take a beating with all the cooking

and baking I do so it's nice to have a newer one.

I see them use these type of pans on the Food channel.

Whelp it's almost 9:00am and I'm ready to go

lay back down for a few.

The tiredness becomes overwhelming at times

even after just sleeping the night or after taking naps.


12:25pm


Got up from my nap around 11:30am.
It seemed to of helped for the moment.
Got a piece of ham to eat and are now taking
all my meds for the first go round today.
Now I've got a tray of raspberry thumbprint cookies
baking in the oven.