A week of small things...

Welcome! Thanks for stopping by for some Company Girl coffee!

I had two days this week that were my favorite tasks. Tuesday Rachel Anne 'assigned' us to take a break and spoil ourselves. What? For real? And guess what? Tuesday was my birthday! My break consisted of some relaxing time in front of the fire, a piece of birthday cake that my mom sent me :o) and a little crocheting. It was great! Today we were challenged to clean a slate. This could be anything we wanted. For me, it meant tossing old Thanksgiving flowers and then wiping the kitchen counter that had played residence to the dying mums for a week. It also meant takin some time in the laundry room to work on the always-too-crowded counter in there. Big difference and I only spent about 20 minutes total.

Come join us at Home Sanctuary!

Blessings,
Cheryl

Christmas Cookie Rules

There is a lot of truth in this!  (My scale disagrees!)
1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you are making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calories free rule #1 is yours also.
It would be rude to let your friend sample alone, and being  the friend that you are makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have 3 and green ones have 5 - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching Miracle on 34th Street  have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
9. Any cookies consumed from someone else's plate has no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!
And finally...
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It's a rule!

NOW I will get excited about Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Table is set...

Turkey is done... Fire is lit...

 

Now we must wait for DD#1 to get off work and get here!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Blessings,

Cheryl

I love Christmas!

Yes, I DO love Christmas!  I enjoy the anticipation, the look on my daughters' faces as they open a gift, pecan pie.  I love Christmas.

But in the beginning of November?  Notsomuch.  I was stunned on Monday to hear the radio play a Christmas song.  The kids told me they have been playing them on the radio for over a week.  (What would I know?  I was cruising in Mexico!)  CHRISTMAS SONGS?  What happened to Thanksgiving?

Because our amazing first born was born 10 days before Christmas, we make a distinct effort to not let her birthday get shadowed with Christmas.

So, in honor of November and Thanksgiving, please enjoy my blog's new look.  When I decorate our home for Christmas, I will change the blog over to reflect the same.  I, for one, will not celebrate Christmas until after Thanksgiving.

Blessings,

Cheryl