I think I'm going to need the big mug for today ...

Not going to be the first Cup of Coffee today :)

Today started out ok, that is I got to sleep in until 9:30am which is a true miracle. Now I worked the 2nd job for the call center until 1:30am and then of course my SITS blogged so I of course had to check out the roll call and comment on a few blogs before me. So I think I finally got into bed around 2:30 so 7 hours is most hours then most days.

I got up to find Ricky our Wal-Mart fish that has outlasted 2 other fish was floating upside down, and I promise you I didn't put any rum in for the holidays, we was a dry fish (oh geez that was cheesy wasn't it?). So we had to do the fish funeral today, we said good-bye and gave him a Nemo farewell. Cole told me that we flushed him and he went straight to heaven, makes me what else I have sent to Heaven. I'm sorry God please only take the fishy, if you find Lego's or little plastic mean return to sender :).

Mom showed up with some yummies, I didn't have the heart to tell her I had a mini Christmas dinner planned. My lovely 4 year old talked (guilted) her into going to the fish store. A half hour later we left the pet store with 2 new gold fish, a snail and a plant (oh yeah and new jewels, cause you know a tank has to have some bling). Meet our new fish Ricky and Lucy (mom's a big Lucy Ball Fan) and Patrick the snail (Spongebob fan, I guess we should have called it Gary).

Meet our new fish, snail and plant

After coming back from the fish store and getting the fish and the tank ready I start on my next project. You know making 10 batches of cookies last weekend wasn't enough why not do it all over again. Rick wasn't going to do anything for his coworkers so I didn't bake extra. Well they gave him gifts so that meant I needed to return to the Betty Crocker way of life. This time I'm only going to make three types and just do double batches. The Eggnog, Snickerdoodles and Mexican Hot Chocolate ones went over the best so those will be my three. While I'm at it I better make some bread for Cole's lunches. I thought I would try out a new recipe, since I used French bread for my casserole the other morning it was sounding very yummy. It made the house smell delicious, but when I opened the lid I had a small little loaf that wasn't that pretty. I'm going back to the white bread, that one is so fluffy and yummy!

And if the night wasn't busy enough why not make a "Mini" Christmas dinner since we didn't have one here. So in between cookies I threw in a ham, a green bean casserole and whipped up some mash potatoes. I guess I bought rolls also that I forgot about, thankfully Rick remembered them. So after making 2 of the three cookies I whipped up the Mexican Hot Chocolate batter and put it away to finish up tomorrow. I think that is enough baking for today! I'm tired now I think I'm going to head to the bed, plus I have a husband pacing behind me asking if I ever leave this seat :).

Here we go again, Eggnog Cookies since they were a HUGE hit last time.

Snickerdoodles!

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

Yummy Mexican Hot Chocolate comes in a solid form (Cool Huh)

Eggnog Cookies (I made them red this time)

Snickerdoodles

The french bread (very small loaf, I won't make this again)

Yummy "Mini" Christmas Dinner (Green Bean Casserole and Ham)

The Boys having dinner (love the smile, yup that's the norm)