Yummy In My Tummy

I found this fabulous (read:  easy!) recipe HERE.

EASY COOL WHIP COOKIE RECIPE

These three ingredient cookies will make you the envy of everyone. If they do not at least you didn’t waste all day cooking for those people who do not appreciate your worth. These Easy cool whip cookies recipe are great for every event that you have to bring something. They look great, taste great, and are cheap to make. We all know I love a great deal and a pretty sweet I am all in this is all you do.

EASY COOL WHIP COOKIE RECIPE

1) Buy cake mix, an egg, and cool whip or whatever whip topping look alike you find in the freeze section

2) grab a bowl

3) pour in the cake mix. I used white cake but I thought about pineapple or red velvet.

4) Place one egg in the cake mix

5) Then mix in the egg

5 b) Then put in the food coloring of your choice (optional)

 

6) Finally fold in the 8 oz cool whip topping (do not overdo it)

7) Then grab a cookie sheet

8) Turn on your oven to 350 degrees

9) scoop out the cookie batter onto a cookie sheet

10) Place the cookie scoops in the oven for 10-12 minutes

11) Cool the cookies prior to consuming

12) Place them on a pretty plate and pretend you slaved over their creation.

NOTE from  a reader: I make these with the lemon cake mix and roll in powdered sugar before baking. I also do white cake mix with almond extract and roll in granulated sugar. I’ve tried chocolate mix also…ALL are amazing! I find that if I refrigerate the dough for a while after mixing that the cookies come out thicker and fluffier.

Thank you Amee!

Thoughts From the Hospital Waiting Room

• Surgeries always take longer than they say
• There is always a family that are table-hogs
• Hospitals still rank up there in the group of "Top Places to People-Watch"
• I'm bored
• My family is funny
• My mom still packs a lunch for my dad even when she's the one in surgery
• There's always a tv hog
• I'm tired of hospitals

Post Surgery Appt #4 Plastic Surgeon

Due to the fact that I most likely injured myself during my big exciting ROLL OVER in bed, Dr felt it wouldn't be smart to do the usual 100 ccs.  DANG IT.  He only did 50 ccs.

Happy 50th Anniversary

Wow, fifty years is a long time.  That's half a century.  And a majority of my mom's life.
She married my dad when she was 15, a true child bride.  He was rescuing her from a life that hardly knew a childhood.
My parents marriage has hardly been a walk in the park.  Yet loyalty & faithfulness.. a commitment matched by God's grace, has lent them the blessing of such a long marriage.

My sibs & I threw them a party -- details that we knew they'd love, with simple requests from them.

I love them... and I love the legacy they've given us.  That Flynn & Gabe will grow up knowing that their parents... and their parents' parents... all loved each other & God enough, to look past life's trials & stay together.

Post Surgery Appt #3 Plastic Surgeon

100 more cc's making a grand total of 400 --- we are half way!

Post Surgery #2 Plastic Surgery Appt

Yay, drains removed... this time, painlessly.
100 ccs added, now for a total of 300.

We laughed with the surgeon about me going smaller than I started...and Jeff not supporting that idea.

#1 Post Surgery PLASTIC SURGEON follow up

Examined 'wounds', said everything (including the swelling just by my arm pits) looks normal.

No drains removed.

Dr says that next week my drains will probably be removed & we will definitely begin filling my expanders.

Post Surgery Appt #1 (breast surgeon)

When leaving for dr's appt, I had no idea what my day would hold.

I sensed something when I entered the office & the staff, normally chipper, looked at me almost sympathetically.
Hmmm...

Then, before removing 2 of 4 of my drains, Dr Snell comes in w/ the path report.  She tells me, "I have good news & bad news... the bad news is the pathology report showed a cancerous tumor in your left breast.  The good news is that you had a mastectomy."
I don't think I even heard much after cancerous tumor....
I'm certain my jaw dropped open & I don't forget hearing my mom gasp.
I didn't cry.  Just felt such thankfulness.  My elective surgery saved me.  Without finding it, it would've continued to grow.   Because in March, the MRI didn't find it....just a few mos before that.  And nine mos before, the mammogram didn't find it.

My mind didn't think about much more than that, between the phone calls & reading.  Telling Jeff, I thought he'd fall apart.... instead, he comforted me, while *I* fell apart.

My new normal isn't anything but normal.

Going Home

After a visit from Dr. Snell (breast surgeon) & Dr. Olivea (Plastics), I was released.

Then home, to find a new normal for the next few weeks.

The Morning After

The puking. The trouble peeing. The sharp twinges where my boobs used to be.

But none of it worse than dying of cancer.