It's the Most Horrible Time of the Year

Ok, not really - I love the Christmas season! And as I get older and as my family grows, I enjoy it more and more. But for a sugar addict, such as myself, it is the most horrible time of the year.

I admit that I consume more than the normal amount of sugar on a regular (daily) basis, but between Thanksgiving and Christmas I consume EVEN more. That's not a good thing.

It first began with deciding to make fudge, again, for my side of the family. If you've ever made fudge, it usually makes quite a bit, so we ended up keeping some for ourselves. What was I thinking?!?

Then Thanksgiving weekend came. I consumed more Starbucks drinks over 6 days than I do in 1 month. Well, of course that's all justified as 2 of those drinks were because we had woken up early to finish the second half of our drive, 1 of those drinks was meeting up with my BFF and the other one was doing a "traditional" Starbucks run with my mom and sister. Then there's the after Thanksgiving dinner PIE and ICE CREAM, which you MUST top with Reddi Whip. Plus it doesn't help when you have a massive family gathering 2 days after Thanksgiving and people bring very tasty looking desserts - cookies that look like pilgrim hats, bite size pieces of cheesecake, family tradition kolacky cookies...Come on folks! And because K was such a good bowler, he won a bag of homemade chocolate chip cookies, which of course I ate since I have a sweet tooth.

K and I celebrated our anniversary at the beginning of the month. On our anniversary, K came home over his lunch break and presented me with a card, flowers and cookies. Not just any cookies, my all time favorite - Pepperidge Farm Bordeaux...DE-LICIOUS!

This past weekend a group of ladies from our church took part in a Christmas Ornament and Cookie Exchange. So you know what that means - I had to bake THREE dozen cookies AND I brought home a variety of other cookies. I made Caramel-Filled Chocolate cookies which require Rolo candy and of course I didn't need all the Rolos, SO the remaining candy was placed in our pantry...waiting to be consumed by  none other than ME.

K asked me to make some sort of dessert for a co-worker's farewell party. I went out and bought a simple brownie mix. Yesterday K came home with the leftover brownies - thankfully there were only two, but of course they've already been eaten.

And then there's the Limited/Seasonal Christmas goodies!! I swear, stores intentionally torture sugar addicts during the holidays. While in IL for Thanksgiving my sister reminded me of the wonderful Mint M&Ms - which I purchased during the last big grocery shopping trip. Saturday I purchased Candy Cane Oreos to bring to someone's house in hopes that there would be some left to bring back home. Also, during my last grocery shopping trip I came across Peppermint flavored miniature marshmallows which I had to get so I could put them in my almost daily hot chocolate. At some point, I plan on getting Hershey's Mint Truffle Kisses and Hershey's Peppermint Kisses. Seriously Walmart, are you trying to kill me?!?

It won't stop at that either. We'll be with K's family for Christmas and I'm sure his parents will have some sweets around the house because they know I have a sweet tooth.

I would like to make something clear...I'm not worried about gaining weight from the sugar, I'm simply worried about the amount of sugar consumed - pretty confident it's not normal (or healthy).

Hi, my name is E and I'm a sugar addict...



Not pictured: Brownies (already gone...)