Our Holidays So Far.

How was your Christmas?

Ours was lovely, though a little bourbon heavy at the end. Each Christmas I make bread pudding for Logan and I to eat. It's the kind of thing that we don't eat on a regular basis because it's really not what one would call 'Good For You" but it is SO GOOD.

I made a new bread pudding recipe from Elise's Simply Recipes. The bourbon sauce calls for 1 cup of bourbon, and in the recipe it says "Add bourbon to taste." I assumed this meant 1 cup was the starting point so I poured the entire cup in, thinking I'd probably add more.

I like bourbon in sauces, like a mustard bourbon sandwich spread, but I don't generally drink bourbon straight.

I was surprised however when this sauce on my bread pudding blew my eyebrows off and then knocked me across the kitchen and put me to sleep moments later.

Wow.

Logan, aka "The Titanium Liver" however deemed the sauce "Strong but amazing." So your results may vary.

Aside from food there were gifts. The nice thing about older kids is that their gifts cost more so there are less of them and my goodness does that make wrapping a much easier task. (Also nice is how Max never questions the questionable explanation that Santa has a budget.)

Logan wanted a new iPod shuffle as a reward for completing his last marathon but money just wasn't available for such a thing, so I bought him one for Christmas. I engraved it: "Nothing Is Chasing You. xo"

That pretty much made my Christmas. His other large gift was a leaf blower and I know this is on par with getting a waffle iron or a vaccum for your birthday but it made him happy anyway.

In December we've entertained family, friends, co-workers, went to parties and dinners. Remember a while ago when I was lamenting all the time I spend in my bedroom? This is a lot of face time for someone like myself who's used to talking to a lazy cat for the larger part of each day.

One more party tonight and then the big annual New Year's Eve Free For All. You know the night where we invite a bunch of people with kids over and we eat, drink and talk? Then in the morning we pray the house is still standing?

Some people devote January to something like renewed motivation toward fitness goals.

My January will be devoted to alone time.