I have a confession. It is embarrassing to say what I'm about to say...but in the spirit of being an honest blogger I must tell on myself.
Recently I went to a cookie exchange for the squadron wives Christmas party...and lied. Through my teeth.
You see, we were supposed to bake two dozen cookies to bring and share. I thought it was a wonderful idea when I heard of it back in November! I bought all the ingredients and had grandiose plans of making lovely and delicious cookies from my own kitchen.
It didn't happen.
I could excuse myself by saying my back went out and I couldn't move and I have 3 young children and I'm pregnant and my husband is gone and I was sick for 2 weeks so my entire life was behind about a month....but I won't say any of THAT.
What DID happen was this - I left early for the party and brought my empty Christmas plate and my roll of Glad cling wrap with me in my car. I went into a civilian grocery store (a place where I am always lost and feel awkward) and purchased 2 boxes of bakery fresh cookies. When I got back to my car - thank goodness for the large center console in my Suburban! - I loaded them on my plate and wrapped 'em up. For the record - I DO have a recipe similar to the kind of cookies I bought! Then I entered the party and acted like the cookies were my own.
And you know what?
I slept great that night. Zero guilty conscience. :)
This is why I try to get to all the sign-up sheets first. I know the only items I actually will bring to anything right now must be pre-made, or juice boxes!
I also had lofty ideas of the delicious goody bags I was going to fill with fantastic treats for those special people who have impacted my life deeply this year...and I was mildly hyperventilating in the store just thinking about it. So, I let myself off the hook.
I could excuse myself by saying my back went out and I couldn't move and I have 3 young children and I'm pregnant and my husband is gone and I was sick for 2 weeks so my entire life was behind about a month....but, again, I won't say any of THAT.
Sorry to you people that were on my list....maybe I'll get something to you as a "happy summer" gift!
No extra goody bags. And I don't feel guilty! I feel complete relief.
Final thing...I promise. I had some cleaning that I wanted to accomplish before My Love's return...that I just couldn't figure out HOW to DO. Like scrubbing my deep soaker tub - tell me, how are you supposed to clean that with this massive moving abdomen I've got going on???? Or cleaning my fans. So, I did one of the best-gifts-to-myself I've ever done....I paid 2 wonderful teenagers to do it!
And my list is getting accomplished.
By other people or the items are being removed as unnecessary...but, the list is getting shorter either way!
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Can I just say how much of a progress-killer this snow has been on my list!? That and having lost my card set me WAY back, oh well! Clean house or not they are still coming home.
ReplyDeleteI love this story Whit! I now feel I can let myself off the hook for some of the stuff I am not accomplishing in my life right now! Thanks for always making sense of this thing we call life! Love you bunches!!
ReplyDeleteand coming home sooner by the second!! :)
ReplyDeleteKim - you definitely need to let yourself off the hook...I've decided I would rather be viewed as rude and happy with my set of commitments; instead of polite and miserably over-booked. my mantra!