Old Fashioned Christmas Swap Goodies.....and "flop" for breakfast

LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL !

The day before yesterday I received my swap package from Marie from Spun by Me, who was my swap partner. Oh my, it really is a pleasure to get a package in the mail you know it!

We participated in an Old fashioned Christmas swap on Chars blog, The pickled Pepper Patch. I have been spoiled. I love all the beautiful treasures Marie sent to me. Thank you again and again and again!
Wild card Item. Fabric covered box with a banner that says PRIMITIVES. I'm not sure yet if this will find it's way up to my sewing area, or if it will find a home in my bedroom. I love it.

Lighted item. I love this little grubby candle. I have everything I need to make some of these, but have never gotten around to it. Now I have one! I love this Marie!

Wooden item. How cute is this little Christmas welcome!

Smell good item. Ummmmm. They do smell good. But I think my favorite thing about the smell good item is the old? jar and the zinc lid! Thank you for this!

Textile Item. This will be going up to my sewing area, cuz it is going to be staying out all year!

Three ornies. These are my very favorite treasure that was in the package! Oh I do love them! Little embroidery and appliqued tucks/ornies!

Thank you again Marie! Very much. I hope your package came yesterday, and that you found it pleasant. :-)

Is it cold in your neck of the woods? It is here. -1 this morning at 7:30 which is our normal walking time. Needless to say, we waited until it warmed up before we walked . We waited until 10:30 and by then it was a whopping 12! LOL
What did you make for breakfast this morning?

I made a FLOP.
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Dh ate his, but the tween gagged, which is and of its self not a hard thing to make him do. He gagged the other night over chicken enchiladas .
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I would say 99.99 percent of the time I don’t feel sorry for him, nor do I make him different food. We eat what I fix.
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However, this morning he had a right to gag!
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DH spent the night in the hospital doing the second part of a sleep test, ( another post for another day lol) and his plan was to come home before work and do his morning chores, and eat breakfast . So with that in mind, and keeping in mind that it was cold outside, I decided to have hot cereal. Are you asking yourself how a seasoned hot cereal cooking mom can make it gaggy? Geeeezzze! Picture this……
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I’m in my pj’s, wearing my warm fuzzy sox, my fav walking cap is on my head, mostly to hold my hair down, and I was humming Christmas music.
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Pure domesticity huh. I stoked the fire and added more wood, I patiently urged my tween out of bed, telling him if he got up before I got back to the kitchen I would cook his fav hot cereal, if not, I would cook mine, which is oatmeal with brown sugar and raisins. (Raisins also make him gag…...) Well, it was his fav, which is germaid with brown sugar and maple. I buy germaid bulk. 25 lbs at a time, an I use an old barrel shaped pickle jar for a canister. Well, my pot had boiling water in it, I was still humming, all was going very nicely, until I decided I didn’t have enough germaid in the pan, so while whisking with my right hand, I began adding more germaid with my left hand. Just a little, it wasn't enough, so just a little more, I didn’t want to get it too think. Who wants lumpy cereal? Certainly not moi! Anyway, it sill wasn’t enough, so I add some more, only this time, I dropped the whole jar in the pan. I grabbed it out as fast as I could, didn’t get tooooo much water in the jar……however, I ended up with just a small fraction amount more germaid in my pan than I wanted, which called for more water. Did I add it? Hummmm of course I did. Well you guessed it, it made it l.u.m.p.y. SO now I had a pan full of lumpy germaid, enough to feed at least 7-15 people instead of the 3 of us. What would you have done? Well, I‘ll tell you what I did, I was thinking real quick I was (yeah or something else…) and I went ahead and added the brown sugar, and the maple, and threw half of it into the blender. Slapped the lid on it, and blended away! Ahhhhhhhhhh! It was straight down hill from there. WHAT WAS I THINKING? It was about at that point that I remembered I had forgotten to add the salt to the water in the first place… Oh it was nice and smooth, and sort of shinny….. and it kind of sat there, all thick and shinny and smooth on the spoon….. I wouldn't go so far as to say the texture was....odd....., well maybe. I didn’t really look at it until after DH had already eaten his, or it would never have passed his lips! (I’m so sorry sweetheart!) The tween just looked at it in his bowl, as he tipped it this way and that way, asking as he did so, “what did you do to it? It did have a “different” look to it than the normal bowl of germaid. Honestly? It really was gaggy!!! Well, of course the bus was nigh onto being there, DH was full ( of kindness towards his wife) ( gotta love a man that eats what I cook!) and …..the tween implored me beseechingly with his eyes, to be let off the hook this time. What would you have done? Well no questions asked, hands down, I hurried and threw (almost literally) him a speedily peeled hot boiled egg! Ummm.
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Any thing had to be better than gaggy “flop” for breakfast!
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P.S. ………………..I also ate a boiled egg for breakfast.
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the dogs had "gaggy flop
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I'm grateful humor. Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley said, "The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache." It's true. I love to laugh, and don't do it nearly enough. It's good for the soul to laught at yourself.

Enjoy your day.