...this is easily the busiest time of the year. Most wonderful, yes. But busy. Yesterday our company arrived and played with Hannah and Seth for quite a long time. I made Pioneer Woman's mini meatball sandwiches for supper (oh my goodness great!), and then I made turtles after the kids went to bed. This morning I got up with the intention of making two items, and made three, but it took me all day. No really. All. Day. I made 160 something cream wafer sandwiches, which means I made over 320 little wafer cookies and the filling. One of our guests helped me with the dipping of sugar and pricking of the wafers with a fork while I was rolling out the dough and cutting them. Then I made 44 Santa Clause cookies, which is the size of two sugar cookies in one with chocolate chip eyes, red hot mouth and nose, red sugar cheeks and hat and icing beard and hat trim. I also made 33 chocolate caramel cupcakes. Dusty took pictures of everything, so I'll post them some other time. Right now I'm going to begin readying for bed, so I can rise to whip the world once again tomorrow.
Oh...yes. Last night Dusty was sitting on the couch and he saw something move. It was a mouse. It ran out of our bedroom and when he yelled it was a mouse, it ran back in. We spent almost 2 hours looking for that stupid mouse. Neither of us were mean [brave] enough to kill it when we had it cornered at one point, which was tragic because it was another 30-45 minutes before we saw it again. It was just so cute and had little round ears! And now I smell mouse, I hear mouse scratches, I see little movements out of the corner of my eye. Ugh. I'm totally paranoid. Never again, though, will I leave the door to the garage open accidentally when I leave the house! I will [hopefully] always make sure it's closed!
And I think Seth has croup, and we're supposed to be visiting people with small children tomorrow. Wonderful. Please pray he wakes up perfectly fine. I only remember this because he just barked at me while sleeping. Poor baby.
There will most likely be no posts for a couple of days, so we can celebrate our third and final Christmas of 2010.
I also need to add that without my incredible husband I would never have been able to accomplish all I have done this week. He had taken so much care of the kids (before Christmas), and has handled so many other tasks I've needed him to do, all with a servant's heart and with love. He's the most wonderful person I could have ever imagined marrying. :)
OK, it's a night. I called it.
Okay, I know that this post was all about stress and stuff, but I loled twice.
ReplyDeleteOnce at the mouse running back into your room when Dusty called it a mouse, like "oh, you know me?"
Twice when you said Seth barked at you, which really is very sad and I hope he gets better asap, but I just pictured him barking like a dog and it cracked me up.
I hope you have a fun family Christmas and everyone loves your delicious-sounding desserts!