Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
How is everyone doing?
Welcome to Winter!!! We had snow flurries most of the day yesterday, and then overnight it picked up! We ended up with about an inch or snow of fluffy white stuff on the ground. It looks very pretty outside!
I need to get out today, and get some Christmas shopping done. It's only gift cards for my parents. They've reached the age where they really don't need thing, and enjoy going out for stuff, so gift cards it is!
I'm also going to a local place that makes homemade chocolates. I want to give them to a friend who was there for me when I was going through all the stuff with mom, and give them to her as a "thanks"!
Other than that, I believe I am ready for Christmas!
Maybe this is a sign to be more gentle with yourself and cut back the cookie making to sustainable levels. Nobody is hovering above your Mom's house counting the cookies and checking them off of an inventory sheet. When you overdo like that, you make yourself more vulnerable to whatever bad bugs are going around.
I had this happen to me last summer. I was so driven with my yard work that when my family and I were exposed to COVID, I was the only one who came down with it.
What FRiend said. ... I'm sure you and your mother enjoy the baking together, but maybe it is time for you and your mother to cut back a little. Maybe not make so many kinds, or maybe start a little earlier and allow "a day of rest" between making different varieties?
Or--dare I say it?--cut back on your recipient list, so you don't have to make so many. Your mother is how old now? And, let's face it, you ain't gettin' any younger. People may miss your cookies, but they will understand.
Hope you feel better soon!
Hiya Jeff and Lee! I don't think I got sick from being run-down. We actually had a good system, because mom is retired now, and I was on vacation. I was at their home at 10 in the morning, and we were done for the day by 3:00 the latest, so it wasn't long hours. Things just didn't pan out this year.
Mom and dad said they're planning on getting a new stove, I believe by February. So when it's in we can get some practice using it, and trying the sugar cookies again, and see what we need to do to make sure they turn out.
Also, with me getting sick, on that Monday I had an appointment with my dentist for a cleaning. I didn't see the actual dentist, he was in his office, as he wasn't feeling well, so he was avoiding his patients, put he could've passed something to his techs who passed it to me. Also, Tuesday was bowling, and I could've caught something there.
So sorry that happened, Chuck! All that effort. And now you're sick on top of it. Major bummer.
The one slight silver of a silver lining is that hopefully you'll feel better by Christmas.
Are you feeling better these days, friend? Hope you vanquished that nasty bug!
Hiya Katy and Lee! I'm feeling much better now!
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