16 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, cookies, family, fun, gingerbread, icing, moments, supper, widow
tonight after supper we decorated some gingerbread cookies that we’d picked up a few weeks ago at IKEA…
everyone took part… lots of focus and luckily the icing I picked up today worked perfectly…
then we ate them and they were delicious;-)…
we are going to put together the gingerbread house and decorate it on Christmas Eve as we need royal icing to glue it……
25 Monday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, cake, cookies, Deadly Chocolate Mousse, family, health, obsess, sugar, treats, widow
took my doctor at his word today, when he said…
don’t let obsessing over food keep you from living a happy life…
while we were opening our presents I had a couple of sugar cookies which my daughter had made… they were delicious… when they were younger I made sugar cookies for every special celebration, so it is fun to eat cookies that the kids make…
once presents had all been opened and we’d had a lovely vegetable quiche we had some cherry surprises… a treat that our next door neighbour would make and share at Christmas… and which my younger daughter has perfected…
finished the day off with Deadly Chocolate Mousse from Baked Expectations, after a very well-balanced turkey dinner…
hope that your day was filled with fun moments…
02 Thursday Feb 2017
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almonds, aquasize, big girl pants, cookies, shortbread, snack, weekend, widow
great start to my weekend…
shortbread and almonds for a snack before heading to aquasize… have two cookies left…
great class and now home to watch some tv…
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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alzheimer's, beloved, big girl pants, cancer, cookies, dreams, dying, family, help, memories, play, widow
yesterday we went to a play in the afternoon…
it was about a woman and her adult children and how they dealt with her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s…
I am always amazed at how they can take a few inanimate objects and make them appear to be different things throughout the play…
there were a few moments that brought back memories for me…
they talked about the loss of the husband a year previous and how difficult that and the intervening time had been…
the mother told one of her daughters that she was going to take her own life when she felt the disease was overtaking her…
that reminded me of my own mother asking me to help her die… she was in palliative care in the end stages of esophageal cancer… nowadays there are some options if a person wants to end their life when they have a terminal illness… there wasn’t anything to help a person when my mom asked me… she also asked if she could come home to die… it was difficult to say I couldn’t help her or bring her home to die… at the time she would have been staying in my daughter’s room and I wasn’t sure my daughter would be able to move back into the room if her grandmother died there…
it was a very powerful play and certainly opened up opportunities for people to discuss these difficult situations…
slept very poorly last night… kept having strange dreams with my beloved in them and then waking up… don’t usually remember dreams… thinking the play triggered them…
we did have these cute pumpkin pie cookies my friend picked up and which were very tasty…
30 Friday Oct 2015
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we have just spent three hours carving pumpkins…
started with four pumpkins and then friends arrived with two more… I picked up two plastic ones for my house…
guts were yanked out… carving tools were used… everyone worked very hard and had lots of fun expressing their creativity…
the drill came out and not one hissy fit was had…
the work was all done…
hope you are not too scared… Grandpa would have been proud… he had the most fun getting ready for Halloween…
here are the cookies that I took to the office today… brought the rest over to my kids’…
put some out in cute little spider web bags…
fun day…
13 Tuesday Oct 2015
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feel like I haven’t been as good as I should have about eating lately…
yesterday, besides a lovely turkey dinner, I ate three cookies, sigh…
took the rest of them to the office this morning so I wouldn’t be tempted to eat any more of them…
my new doctor has advised that he doesn’t want me to take any blood sugar readings, because they can cause additional stress… I wonder if it causes more stress for me when I don’t know what my levels are…
today I got back on track… had a smoothie for breakfast… with berries, yogurt and spinach…
doesn’t look that great, but tastes good and is healthy…
for lunch I had some salmon with wild rice, and fresh veggies…
for my supper I had turkey leftovers, with reheated mashed potatoes and cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and turnip… instead of gravy, I decided on stuffing…
been doing some research and have discovered that reheated potatoes have a resistant starch when consumed… also using Pro-Activ margarine which helps lower cholesterol…
hope I can stay on track…
14 Thursday Feb 2013
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Baileys, cars, chocolate hearts, cookies, cupid delivery, feeling sorry for myself, lost son, miss him, neighbour, new reality, one step at a time, remembering daddy, roses, sadness, sorrow and healing, The Keg, time passes quickly
my neighbour of over thirty years lost her forty-year old son to cancer a few days ago… I cannot imagine her pain…
I spent a few minutes with her and we talked about the sadness but also the need to go on, one step at a time… a friend of hers was there and my neighbour mentioned that my husband had died a few months ago… it is nearly a year but time passes so quickly… she will be fine, like me, moving forward and doing what needs to be done…
for me there is no choice… I work at seeing the good in things around me, remembering the best and looking forward with hope…
I ordered roses for my girls and did very well until I was asked what the card should say… then the tears began to flow and I could hardly speak… both of the florists I spoke with were very compassionate, patiently waiting until I could speak again… the cards said – remembering daddy…
no matter what else was going on he always made sure that each of them got a rose for Valentine’s Day to be sure they knew how much he loved them… what a romantic he was… I miss him so…
had quite the up and down day today… woke up very early thinking about George and wishing he was here… at work, I delivered flowers to one of my colleagues and was feeling a bit sorry for myself because I wouldn’t be getting any…
then I was called out of a meeting to deal with a situation at the front… it was two cupids singing and playing a cute song as they delivered a heart-shaped cinnamon bun and chocolate heart…
In the heart of winter you may feel like an icicle – but your heart can be warmed with this message by bicycle – let there be no questions or shades of grey – your kids wish you a happy valentine’s day – so ignore the quality of singer or song – just know that with us, you can do no wrong.
treats…
it was our soup day so I had a lovely lunch with some of my colleagues – Thai Coconut Curry soup and sugar cookies – some very pretty ones that Crystal dropped off, and some rather strange looking ones that I made last night…
after work Crystal and I went to look at cars and consider whether I should upgrade… then we went to The Keg, where we met up with Jeff and had a lovely dinner… steak and lobster for me, yum…
finally I got dropped off at home and charged into the house on a mission to get the garbage and recycling out for tomorrow’s pick-up…
on the floor I spot…
what the…
and followed along…
up the table…
where I discovered a cute card from all the kids…
… your “Lots of Love Club”!
as I sit here writing, and drinking a small glass of Baileys, I can look over and see the chocolate hearts, which I have not yet moved, lol… pretty great kids…
what a day… filled with tears and laughter as I move forward in this new reality…
herbiggirlpants 