2024: I Will Make This Year Different

  December 22:   Baking was a bust yesterday, so today I kicked out 6 pies. Well, technically it was 7 since I burned one and had to remake it. Thankfully one of the pies was a freezer pie, so I basically had to mix the ingredients together and freeze it, no baking required. In addition to that, the remaining pies are all pies where the crust bakes with the filling so I lucked out there. Aside from the burnt pie, I messed up the cherry pie. It had a lot of liquid showing when I pulled it out of the oven. I sopped some of it up with paper towels and left it to cool. It seemed to thicken up when it cooled down, I just hope it remains that way after it thaws.   We went out to look at Christmas lights tonight and when our night was almost over, I was pulled over. The officer told me that my headlamp was burned out. I explained that it wasn’t out, just extremely dim as we just changed it within the last week. He advised that we have someone look at it and he let me g...

  December 15:  After all the sitting yesterday, my lower back is giving me some fits, but that won’t stop the march of forward progression. Today we are pulling everything out of the basement for Christmas. Part of the motivation for this is so I can get presents wrapped and under the tree instead of in their billion hiding spots. LOL! But also, the little one cleaned his room so his tree can be put up. We put on some Christmas movies and I let the boys take over most of the decorating since my back hurt so bad. December 16:   I was supposed to make pies yesterday for the work carry-in, but with my back hurting the way that it did I was unable to complete the task. I’m very thankful that my oldest is willing to take my youngest to his Acro class so I can make the pies. We didn’t spend a lot of time together today, but I feel like our time together yesterday was wonderful so I’ll let it slide that I dropped the ball on spending time together today. December 17: ...

  December 8:  Tonight was a good night. My sister came over and as a family we (her, my boys, and me) sat down and watched Kubo and the Two Strings together. As my oldest son and I saw some of the characters and sets when we visited Seattle, we shared things we learned about the movie with everyone else. After we finished it, I started dinner and my sister put on a Christmas movie that her and the little one like to watch. After the movie was over, I took her home then came back to sort through some Christmas gifts that I purchased earlier today. I’m pretty pleased with a lot of them and I hope the rest are enjoyed. It was nice to spend time together with 3 people I love very much.  December 9:  The little one didn’t feel good today, so I called in to work and stayed home with him.  Thankfully, all he needed was a nap and he felt better. After he woke up from his nap, we snuggled in my room for a while. He then decided to watch one of his favorite Christmas mov...

  December 1:  A great way to begin the blog for a new month. I am writing it a week later and I have ZERO idea of what I did, because of all the other stuff that went on this week. I believe I went to the gym and I’m fairly certain I spent time with my little one. Beyond that, I’m completely lost. * face palm * December 2:  The little one has choir practice tonight instead of his acrobatics class. The 3rd grade students were invited to sing with the Community Christmas Choir this year. It’s a first and I’m very excited for the kids. I think it’s a great way to get younger people interested in the choir and maybe next year some of those parents will join, making it even bigger! All parents were required to stay during the portion of the practice with the kids (which was like 30 minutes) then we could take our kids home. It was a good practice and I hope the actual performance goes well.  After the practice, I sat in my car and chatted with a friend who has a child th...