Yesterday I baked a coconut cake and one batch of chocolate chip cookies. Now I am in the middle of making a blueberry pie. When the pie comes out of the oven I will make another batch or two of cookies. This does not sound like a household that is trying to watch it's consumption of carbohydrates!
These things are so hard to resist, which is why I don't usually have them in the house. Last night while making the cookies I believe I must have eaten about a dozen of them. Warm and still gooey from the oven, yum yum. I generally only bake at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and this is why. I enjoy baking and I love eating what I bake, but since I need to lose a few pounds I try to keep temptation at bay by not having the food in the house.
We are otherwise all set for Christmas at my house. I do still have a couple of gifts that I need to wrap because they were last minute purchases, bought on Friday (12/21/07). The kids were with me when I purchased the majority of their Christmas gifts, so they won't be surprised when they open those, but they do not know about these last couple of things and I want to keep it that way until they open them on Christmas morning. I have also purchased some candy and fruit as "stocking stuffers". I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to put these things in stockings, maybe I'll do it first thing in the morning before the kids get up. Even when they were very young I do not remember them waking us up at some ungodly hour to open gifts.
When I was growing up, we had a rule in our house that you couldn't wake Mom and Dad until after 6:30am. We had some neighbors who's children would awaken at something like 5:00am wanting to open presents. I'm trying to remember if at any time my kids awoke before me on Christmas morning. If they did, it wasn't because it was really early, but rather because Mommy had worked on Christmas Eve and therefore had gotten to bed late.
It's been nice to have this time with all of us together for so many days this year. The only thing that would make it better would be if Randy's health was better. He has had some relief because we were able to make arrangements to get him an oxygen machine. That has helped, but he is still having trouble with his ankles swelling, which is a bad sign. We can't seem to keep the swelling down despite the medicine that he is taking which is supposed to keep fluid buildup to a minimum. I'm very worried about what this means about his heart function. He goes for an evaluation physical for Social Security this Saturday. I do not know how they could possibly evaluate him and come to any conclusion other than that he is disabled. I just hope that he will be approved and that the approval will come soon. He needs some type of insurance coverage so that we can afford to for him to go back to the cardiologist. His last visit cost over $1500, but because we had insurance it only cost us $20. We couldn't have afforded it otherwise.
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