The holidays are over. My son goes back to school tomorrow after being off for 2 weeks. It is back to the daily grind. This time of year is so depressing to me. I live in the northeast, so winters are not fun most of the time. But thanks to global warming, we do get a warmer than normal winter. But if the start of this winter is any indication we are in for a bad one. We had 2 feet of snow the Saturday before Christmas.
So I guess this means a long dreary winter. So check back, I am sure I will be blogging much this winter.

So happy winter to all..

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Birthdays

Well yesterday was my birthday. I had a great time spending it with my family. But it made me remember a great story about my dog Charlie. You know how they say chocolate can kill a dog, well not my  dog. A couple of years back, my husband went and bougth me a chocolate cake for my birthday. I love chocolate cake, it is the only kind I will eat. And when I have it, it is a great treat. Well we had my cake that night, and it was just sooooo good. There was more than half a cake left, we put it in the fridge for safe keeping or so we thought. The next day we went out for the day. After a long day the only thing I was looking forward to was a piece of my birthday cake. Well I was too late, Charlie had gotten into the fridge again and got my cake. That dog ate all of the cake that was left. All that was left was an empty box, not a crumb of cake to be found. I have to say with all the bad things this dog did, this was the only time, I called shelters to take him. My husband eventually talked me down off the wall and talked me out of taking the dog to a kill shelter. But I have to tell you for a small moment in time, Iwanted to kill the dog myself. You do not mess with my chocolate cake. If my husband had eaten all of my birthday cake, I would have been sending him off to a kill shelter. Needless to say Charlie stuck around for a few more years and died of natural causes, so please all you animal lovers out there,I did not kill my dog. But I know you chocolate lovers out there know what I am talking about, don't mess with our chocolate. 

Christmas Cookies

I have to give a shout out to Pillsbury Cookie Dough. Every year I make my own sugar cookies for Christmas. But yesterday in the supermarket my son says to me, mom can we buy this cookie dough and make Christmas cookies for my class. Well, not having time to make my own, I said sure lets give Pillsbury a try. Well let me tell you, we made them tonight and they are great. We used our own cookie cutters to make holiday cookies. It was the easiest thing I have ever done. Open the package, roll out the dough, cut into shapes and bake. My son and husband loved them so much I had to stop them so we had enough left to bring to school tomorrow.
Trust me, if you love to bake, but don't have the time, give these a try. You will not be disappointed.

Mom Guilt

Ok I got the mom guilt going. I have a 5 year old son and a 4 month old son. Last night my 5 year says to me, "Mom how come you don't play with me that much anymore". AHHHHHHHHH What is a mom to say. I feel so bad. I just told him that I now have to give some of my attention to his little brother, but I will try  to play with him more than I have in the past couple of weeks. So now I am trying my best to play when he asks.

Another Christmas movie I just love is Fred Claus with Vince Vaughn as Fred and Paul Giamatti as Santa Claus. This is such a funny movie, and at the same time very heartwarming. Fred is the older brother of Santa Claus. Fred becomes bitter from living in the shadow of his little brother, Nick, who becomes Santa Claus. I just love this movie, it really works. The supporting cast is great too. John Michael Higgins is great as Willie the head elf. He is in love with Santa's assistant, but she can't even remember his name. Kevin Spacey and Kathy Bates also play great roles. Check this one out, this gets 5 stars from me for a wonderful and funny Christmas movie.