Mmmm, another Christmas, more Christmas goodies than we can possibly eat.
This year, we have received:
*A plate of cookies and separate container of nut-free cookies for Sam from our neighbors of the perfect lawn and perfectly shoveled driveway.
*A plate of cookies from our neighbors with the soon-to-be-babysitting-age daughter.
*Two plates of whoopie pies from our next door honorary-grandparents-to-Sam neighbors.
*Lake Champlain Chocolates from Paulboo and Judyboo. And yes, that does mean that Paul has attained "boo" status!
*A plate of molded shortbread from my mother-in-law.
*Apricot scones from my mother-in-law. These are terrific in case you're wondering.
*Stollen from my mother-in-law. (I'm beginning to wonder if she just wants to make us all fat!)
*Chocolate covered raisins from my seester.
Note that Paul and Judy provided an entire tasty Christmas dinner cooked at our house so Sam could be easily entertained. We have some leftovers from that as well.
Then there are the self-inflicted treats:
*The remains of a lemon poppyseed bundt cake I made as a birthday cake for my mother-in-law. It doubled as a Christmas Eve dessert.
*The spritz cookies that Sam and I made a few days ago. Alas, between giving these away and excessive injestion (I wrote injection first but it isn't quite that bad) we don't need to worry about these any longer.
*Twizzlers left over from Sam's birthday cake. One was used as a mouth for our snowman but there are still many of them in hidden away in the house. Obviously Ben has no idea they're here or they'd have been gone ages ago. If he reads this, they may be gone before I get home from work.
I'm sure I'm missing a few things here and there and in the scheme of things, it's not a huge amount of food but I could could calculate the calorie content of each of the above items and scare myself. And to scare myself even more, I could calculate the time on the treadmill it would take to work off each of the above items.
But I won't because I'm in denial.
Sam has easily adapted to this excess and is generally refusing to eat anything with any significant nutritional value. It's going to be a rough few days when he goes through withdrawal, especially since Ben and I will be joining him in the pain.
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Chocolate covered cherries, those were, and I thought, a very modest portion.
Ah ha! I haven't eaten any of them yet because, well, they'll keep and the baked goods won't. I'm not sharing those.
Yeah, noone needs to know. Your little secret. I ended up buying a bulk pack of those and dividing them among many packages that I sent out. Plus, I put them in stockings.
Okay, it's just wrong that your seester is Lisa V and I'm Lisa TV. Worlds are colliding!
Btw, at Meijer today my cashier was "Anne V". I was ALL I COULD DO not tell her, like she'd have cared!
Today while shopping I had a strawberry frap from Starbucks. Then I had an astounding amount of leftover pizza followed by turtles. I can NOT figure out why I haven't lost any weight!
Well, aren't you really Lisa VT?
And I'm sure you'll lose weight on New Years Eve....
From my lack of physical presence in VT, I feared I may have been stripped of my Lisa VT status.
My boss recently confessed that she had some personal misgivings about hiring me because of YOUR letter of recommendation that I showed her during our interview; because of our mountain climbing in VT. She said she thought, "This chick climbs MOUNTAINS and is all physically active and stuff, I can't have her around." If she had any doubts, she should have simply thrown some junk food on the table and challenged me to a duel.
What? Did she think you were going to beat the snot out of her or something? LOL
Did you tell her the story about your mom worrying that I'd toss you off the side of a mountain?
Well Anne, you did push me out of a screen door once.
I'm sure that was for your own good.
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