Hey, y’all. 🙂
Did you have an awesome Christmas / holiday?
Things were kinda blah here.
First, the week leading up to Christmas I had to take Mama B to the ER late one night. It was all kinds of drama that led to us having to leave before she could be seen because the ER Dr at our Podunk hospital wasn’t covered under her insurance. If you know me in real life and live in our town…don’t go to the local hospital unless you’re like 110% sure you’re dying. Drive to SL or V and see some decent nurses / doctors. There was this one nurse there that must be the sister of Satan (and that’s being nice). And believe me…she’s already been reported. So anyway thankfully the urgent care at her regular Dr’s office was open super early the next morning. She got seen 1st thing and her temp was 104. The Dr. said if she’d waited any longer it would have been really bad.
So she was sick and then Sister B got sick and wasn’t able to come home. We ended up meeting her for lunch on Christmas Monday but she’s still not feeling all that great. Feel better soon, SB. 🙂
We still celebrated Christmas. It just wasn’t the same as if everyone had been healthy.
Made the real kolaches and pigs for the rest of the fam.
Used the roll dough I wrote about in this post to make me some celiac / paleo safe pigs and prune kolaches. These actually turned out really well. And they held up in the icebox too. I’m so impressed with this recipe.
Usual Christmas Tex-Mex meal. (Tamales / Enchiladas / cheese rice / beans).
So are y’all starting to practice y’all’s Russian. 😉
About that cherry rum cake.
Unreal.
I made my regular rum cake recipe using gf Jules of course (you can use any rum cake recipe) and for all of the water (just the water) in the cake and drizzling sauce I subbed cherry juice from a jar of maraschino cherries. I drained the cherries really well and pulsed them in the food processor then dried them even more on paper towels and added them to the mix. I left everything else the same. Mama B said this was the best cake I’ve ever made. 🙂
Amen.
My fav Christmas presents (so far)…a Rubik’s cube and a Salt Life sign / decoration for the back fence (it needs to be dropped down a little bit). We’re starting to decorate the back fence with old vintage and cute signs. When Rubik’s cubes were first a thing I got one for Christmas and played with it for hours on end. They had all those retro toys out for Christmas this year and it was one of them. My other fav won’t come until sometime next week. I’ll share when it gets here. 🙂
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A progress pic. Left pic was Christmas 2004 (in the middle of a 4 year lupus flare) and right pic was the day after Christmas this year. White bar across chest = no bra. Also…while my stomach is in no way flat that is not a bulge it’s the way the white shirt bunched up.
So…about the title of this post. I took 4 days off plan for the holidays and while it was worth it in some ways it was horrible in others. In about 48 hours my pain level went from around a 4 to a 24. My face bloated up. I was itching like crazy. It was awful. I had planned to stay off plan thru Monday (because we were meeting SB for lunch that day and it was a road trip) but I went right back on plan after Christmas day lunch. It took a good full 3 days for my pain level to get back to somewhat manageable.
Lesson learned. I just cannot jump on and off from no sugar / grains (even with celiac safe ones). I have to find ways to make this livable. And that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to figure out ways to make things I like so maybe I won’t miss them as much. I did it when I had to go gluten – free. I’ll do it with this too. And of course I’ll share along the way. 🙂
Had to go out for lunch on Tuesday. Saltgrass. Caesar and Prime Rib. Forgot to take a pic of the steak but I cleaned the plate so you know it was delish. This was a perfect back on plan meal. 🙂
Normally I wouldn’t post something with that many curse words in two sentences but I saw this and it is just so fitting right now.
Ok. That’s all for now. Y’all have a great / safe New Year’s Eve / Day weekend and I’ll see you soon. 🙂