Is there anything else I can do wrong today??

Xmas Eve. Always a fun day if you know how to channel your stress right.

Stores close early so I tried to make sure I had everything we needed. I knew we were planning on having Xmas dinner at our house. I did not know Ed had invited his parents.

I spent all day cleaning the house. I managed to make devilled eggs, a vegetable tray (that was called "beautiful" thank you very much) and a "meat and cheese" tray.

Ed gave me a last minute gift for someone which I promplty lost (cuz I was cleaning) but I found it and wrapped it quick and we were off.

First of all I was suprised at the amount of compliments I got because I wasn't wearing one smidge of makeup. Apparently I look better without it? I'll still wear it because in PICTURES (you know, the things that last forever?) I look better with makeup on.

The present I picked out for Mark turned out to be way too small (I don't see size when I look at a person - sorry!) and the present I wrapped last minute? Whoops - not the present. Instead of the game card I accidentally wrapped up my warantee card for the stereo I bought poinsetta. Boy did I feel STUPID LOL!

Then when we had to leave I was trying to get home and this happened to be the second time ever I was driving home from my brother in-law's new house and it was dark and it was raining. Anyone who really knows me knows I have a stigmatism which is worse at night and downright awful in the rain. I have glasses to help compensate but wet roads at night are still hard - even worse when they are roads I'm unfaamiliar with. Well we were headed down this stretch of road and suddenly the road ended. It split into two turn-off roads with grass between them. I had no idea that was coming and I misjudged where the road was and ended up in the mud. Luckily I was going fast enough that I slid back out onto the blacktop and except for the Mr. no one knew I had just driven over that grass island. But boy was the Mr. mad LOL! I thought it was funny (that may not have been the case if I had actually gotten stuck but thank God for small favors).

Then at home I find out that you can't just take a can of pumpkin pie filling and throw it into a pie shell no, no ... you have to add something called evaporated milk. I have heard of evaporated milk but never actually seen it (I actually thought it was milk flakes or something dry). I happened to have bought one can for brownies but I needed two for pumpkin pie. Then I found out I actually only have ONE can of pumpkin pie filling - the rest of my cans are pure pureed pumpkin. CRAP. Luckily I had all the other ingredients I needed except I only had the one can of evaporated milk ... I needed two. WELL JUNK! So I called my mom-in-law and she had something close to evaporated milk which I went and got and made my filling.

Then I tried to pour it into the pie shells. And it got pretty full. And then I tried to transfer them onto the cookie sheet (cuz I'm not smart enough to put them on the cookie sheet and THEN fill them up with filling) and made a HUGE MESS ALL OVER MY KITCHEN!! Boy the Mr. was mad at that too!! But still, I thought it was funny.

Teddy (my stepson) asked me why I was laughing when I just made a huge mess I have to clean up. I said this was the first time in my life I was making a pumpkin pie from scratch so of course I'm going to mess it up in every way possible until I learn how to do it right - just like them (the kids). The Mr. can sit and get mad all he wants - he isn't perfect either. Why get mad? DON'T CRY OVER SPILLED EVAPORATED MILK (ha ha). The more mistakes I make the more I learn right?

Well then The Mr. wanted to make chicken and noodles for tomorrow.

You'll never believe this:

WE ARE OUT OF CHICKEN.

Thank God I deal with stress well!!!