Sleep, Glorious Sleep

Having received 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night, today is a much better day than yesterday. The previous night, my son kept me up at all hours, and I had to grab sleep in fifteen minute intervals. There was a total of two hours sleep in all, which is making me remember why I added extra time onto my book deadline. I’ve edited 234 pages, which would suggest that I could send my book off within a week or so. Problem is, my brain can barely manage to remember how to open a file, much less process what I’ve written on the page.

In these early weeks, it’s a miracle I remember how to wash my hair and dress myself. Thank goodness for my husband, who has helped immensely with my older two children. Honestly, I would be a slobbering wreck if it weren’t for him. Let’s just say I should not be operating heavy machinery at this time.

My son is now developing gas pains, the same as my older two. When they reached that point, we had to start giving them simethicone (Mylicon) gas drops to keep them from screaming in pain. It got to the point where we nicknamed it Baby Crack. Honest to God, we survived their infancy by squirting those drops down their throats every two hours. We determined that babies should have one of those hamster water dispensers mounted onto the crib, loaded with gas drops. Either that, or a pacifier hooked up with a medicine dispenser.

No, really. I’m not kidding. There’s nothing worse than watching your infant howl in pain, jerking his little legs as the gas pains hit him. Nobody wants to see a baby suffer, especially when there are ways to help them. So, I’ll be making a pilgrimage to the drug store today, to buy my child his supply of liquid relief.

I did finish making the bourbon balls yesterday, and sadly, a few of them (okay, a dozen) did not turn out very well, with the chocolate sauce slightly melting the candy interior. Darn. Those will have to be consumed by our family so as to hide the evidence. I also plan to make homemade ginger bread, fruit cake (yes, really), snowball cookies (shortbread with confectioner’s sugar), banana bread, and possibly pecan tassies.

For those of you who subscribe to my newsletter, I sent out information today about Her Warrior King which is now on sale from eHarlequin. I also included the fruit cake recipe. If you want the recipe but aren’t a newsletter subscriber, just scroll down and enter your e-mail address into the subscriber box. You KNOW you want to try it. It’s delicious.

What’s your favorite holiday treat? Which one is your least favorite?