This & That...My Silly Life

So a short post tonight because honestly I am worn out and need to get to bed.  It has been a hectic and busy weekend.  I don't even feel like I had any time off work and tomorrow it is back to the grind.  Not to mention Christmas is right around the corner and I am feeling the STRESS!!!

So Saturday morning I got up and headed out to the grocery store to get the necessities for two things to cook.  My sweet potato rolls which are in demand as Christmas presents and a pot of vegetable soup which I had desperately been wanting to cook.  No problem...out the door I go and grabbed everything I needed and back home to get to work in the kitchen.  My plan was to get the sweet potato rolls and soup done on Saturday...that didn't happen!!!  I spent all day cooking sweet potato rolls, I didn't even have time to finish them!  4 hours of just mixing a baking them...WOW!  Now I remember why I only do them once a year.  I managed to get my beef cooked for my soup but that was it  :(

Saturday evening was busy for us and we were out the door at 6:30. Mark and I had a lovely dinner at Wendy's (LOL)  Then we went out to Mellow Mushroom to watch our friend Joey play some music.  We left there a little after 9 to head to a Christmas party.  We arrive home at 2 am...geezzz 

So I was tired and slept in today until 10.  I woke up to breakfast in bed from my sweet husband (awww).  You would think I would be happy, but NO!  I got out of bed ill as a hornet.  For one, I had 15 sweet potato rolls that had to be iced, packaged and put in the freezer, two I needed to make my soup because it is not possible to do that during the week, and three we were suppose to eat dinner at Marks parents house for my birthday.  I was feeling overwhelmed and so stressed.

First I start working on the sweet potato rolls....nothing goes right!  They are super sticky and I cant get them to wrap right which is the most important part after you fill them.  They were sticking to everything and I had really lost my cool with those stupid things  :(  I had to stop half way through to meet Nena to pick up my Pampered Chef stuff I had ordered and then back home for more frustrations.  I was so ill I told Mark I didn't have time to go eat at his parents house for my birthday...  So he called them and told them I was just too busy and won't going to have the time.  I am sure they probably think I am a butt hole...but I had all I could take and didn't need anymore stress.  I knew I was stretched for time today and I didn't have time to go sit and eat dinner.  After all it was for my birthday so who cares if I didn't want to eat?  I really hope they won't mad, but my sanity is more important.

So I finally got the sweet potato rolls done.  For those of you expecting them I hope they taste ok...  They just didn't fill right and I had cream cheese filling smushing out the sides (yikes).  So I dunno???  Then I called my Mom over to help me get started on my soup.  Why you ask?  Well several years ago I attempted my Momma's famous soup and burned it all to pieces.  I had enough stuff to make a huge pot and didn't want to ruin it.  So Mom comes over and gets me started and writes out a time line for all the ingredients to be put into the soup.  You can't cook everything at once or you have certain things that get over cooked.  I started my soup at around 1:00 this afternoon, and it wasn't finished until 6:30 this evening.  I really didn't know I would spend my whole day in the kitchen Saturday and Sunday!!!!  The soup has to be stirred every 5 minutes to make sure nothing is sticking to the bottom.  Believe me...if you don't stir it your stuff will stick and them you have ruined not only a whole pot of soup but a lot of money worth of ingredients.

Anywhoo...the soup was a success (thank goodness).  Mom was proud of me, she said it was really yummy!  Tomorrow I will be freezing some since I cooked the biggest pot in the whole world!  I already gave Mom a bunch, and I think I am going to take my Grandparents some for Christmas...my Grandma doesn't cook so they will appreciate it  :)