When You're Sick

What do you crave when you're under the weather? Nothing, greasy food, mom's homemade soup? Nope not me-I have expensive "sick person" taste. I want the food from the great restaurants that are no where near my house and don't deliver, but there's always the pizza place down the street that has gourmet style pizza and delivers. I've been thinking about this today-because we all woke up under the weather-my husband has convinced me it's strep throat so I have a Drs appt in about an hour, but I was also thinking about dinner. I have absolutely no motivation to cook, let a lone even think of a meal idea, so now I am thinking about where we will order dinner from.

Somehow I think I associate this good food with automatically feeling better, or maybe it's my way of trying to pamper myself....heck I'm weird I know. Most people don't have a taste for anything while sick-nope I want Indian food. Yet is it a waste to spend the money on great food since we don't feel good, or is it money well spent in hopes that it will comfort us, give us a bit of time to relax and enjoy it.

image from http://katieblogs.com/2011/11/what-a-long-sick-trip-its-been/

Jury's still out on this one I guess.....I'll let you know tomorrow.

A Homemade Holiday

We tried to make this holiday as homemade as possibly and succeeded for the most part although I did get sucked into a few sales but I'd like to share a few handmade gifts some by me and some we bought made by others....

By me...
This year our budget was tight-I mean TIGHT and we had to cut down on gifts quite a bit and try to get somewhat creative. I made these for both E and P and they were a huge hit-I'm seriously even thinking about making one for myself-so comfortable! Plus they were pretty easy to make-I made one for my nephew in Nov for his birthday so I was able to whip them out somewhat quickly. Tutorial HERE  

I also turned into a baker extraordinaire-well not really but I kind of felt like it after making homemade Dulce de Leche(from Elsie Marley) and these super yummy Hazelnut Nutella thumbprint cookies oh and nutella fudge-yeah I think I have a nutella addiction).

By others....

I was browsing etsy late one night and came across this awesome shirt-anyone that had met our son has probably heard him RAWR-it's his go to when he's being shy or nervous-yup he RAWRS instead of talking-too cute.

I also finally purchased a pair of these shoes for P that I've been eyeing up forever-they're super cute, made by someone local(bonus) and even stay on her feet

 Hope everyone had a great holiday and didn't get what I am calling the "holiday hangover" like I did. Seriously I think I need to move somewhere warmer-I did up my Vitamin D though and it seems to help.