Christmas Baking

Christmas baking has begun. My plan is to bake nightly and add to my collection of Christmas goodies. And I love to bake and I love Christmas baking most of all. So I am in my element. I came home late, after a day at the office, a run to Macy's and Bedding Barn and Sleepys to look for a new bed (we have been sleeping on the guest queen size bed, all three of us, and have a guest coming this weekend, and therefore we must give him his guest bed and we will have to buy a kingsize for the family), a ballet class and a yoga class, baked a pumpkin loaf and a cranberry loaf and a batch of 'blondies' the latter of which are very popular with Eric and Maya and her friends. Belina and Marius came to our house for the evening after school and will sleep over tonight. Julien and Daphne have evening and nighttime obligations and needed our help. I made chocolate croissants and regular croissants for breakfast as well. The house smells wonderful!

Eric is finally clearing out the living room so we can start using more of the house. I have been missing my house these months. Eric is content to live in two rooms and leave the rest of the house packed up. I want to expand and settle and get everything decorated for Christmas. I am relieved that we are having houseguests so I can use that as an excuse to get Eric to act. I got tired of nagging months ago and tried to tell myself that I can manage in a quarter of the house, but in truth I want my house back, and I hope this is the beginning of reclaiming my ever expanding space. Yahoo!