How many tantrums can one toddler have before her momma has had one cups tea?

The a-a-answer, my friend, is blo-o-owing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.

I'm baking for gifts. I ran out of ideas. Todat i made pumpkin bread mini loavws and hello Dollies aka 7 layer bar.

I really want to also make yeasted sweet potato bread, fudge, snickerdoodles, lemon bars and anothe batch of pumpkin bread. Supposedly I'm goinf to do tbat tomorrow...

The mom across the street who screams at her kids continues to be the actual worst. Their city-issued garbage cart sits at the curb all the time (we're supposed to only have it at the curb for trash day, and people can get fined for leaving it out), and for the last 2-3 weeks it's been overflowing with garbage, so the lid has been sitting open.

Last week we had a crazy night of super high winds, and the next morning the lawn of the house across the street for Horrible Garbage Mom was COVERED in trash. The thing is, that house is a rental, and right now there are no tenants. So the lawn is STILL covered with trash, because of course Horrible Garbage Mom didn't clean it up. (Honestly, I thought she would force her kids to clean it up, but I was super naive to think she would take any kind of responsibility for anything. If she doesn't take responsibility for her kids, of course she won't take responsibility for her trash blowing all over the damn street.)

I've talked with some of the neighbors, and we all really hate this woman. No one knows what slum lord owns the house, so we can't even try to talk to the landlord. I looked on the auditor's website, and it seems that a 96-year-old man owns the house. My guess is that he is not the actual landlord/property manager, because he's 96 years old. So that's a dead end.

In my city calling code enforcement works pretty well. I know this because if I leave my boat in the driveway for a minute some neighbor calls! Call, have your neighbors call, daily.

We can call to report her trash cart being out 24/7, but I don't really want to get into that kind of a war.

I hope for a Christmas miracle for the neighborhood.

My bake a thon is pretty successful. I've made: hello dolly bars, pumpkin muffins (2 batches one with nuts and one without because I forgot), pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and lemon bars. Well bar , I had trouble getting them out of tbe pan so i put it in the fridge to cool.

I still need to make fudge and cracker jacks

What are hello dolly bars?

I have leftover pumpkin and should make pumpkin chocolate chip scones, but this sinus infection is kicking my ass so hard. I am exhausted and I feel like something scraped off the bottom of a shoe. Fortunately, Awesome Doctor's practice does online e-visits for sinus infections, so I filled out the questionnaire Sunday around 2:30 and had antibiotics by 6:00. Amazing!

So now I'm just waiting for the antibiotics to kick in. In the meantime, lots of sudafed, mucinex, and the neti pot. Ick. I guess it's better to be sick this week instead of at Christmas. With any luck, this thing will be gone (or on the way out) by Christmas Eve.

Meara pretty muxh 7 layer vabars rs without butterscotch chips. My grandma uaed to make them along with lemon squarws amd a few othet things for her holiday open house

I'm hoping that Awesome Doctor continues to be awesome and make my life easy. I did an online eVisit on Sunday for a sinus infection, and the doctor on call prescribed antibiotics that I started Sunday night. I'm not feeling even a tiny bit better (I didn't expect to be magically healed in 3 days, but a little improvement by today is reasonable), AND there seems to be some swelling over my cheekbones, which is totally a sign of a bad sinus infection for me.

So instead of calling and trying to come in and see whoever is available, I just emailed Awesome Doctor and told him what was going on and asked if it was time for him to call in a prescription for steroids, because that's what I've had to take in the past for a particularly difficult sinus infection. Hopefully he'll agree and call it in and I won't have to trek to the office so that someone can peer at my puffy face and say "Yup, you need steroids."