Even MORE Christmas Goodies...

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing a bit of cooking, baking and candy-making in preparation for Christmas.

Since my last post I finished making my homemade salami, or summer sausage as some people call it.

I also made my and Jessica's favorite version of glazed pecans, homemade turtles and Big Mama's Toffee. Man, oh MAN is it delicious! And easy to make, too.

I made white fudge and chocolate fudge, too.

So, let's start with the pictures:

This is my homemade salami, or summer sausage.

Good stuff, if I do say so myself.This is chocolate Fantasy Fudge.

These are my favorite glazed pecans.
Jessica loves these, too, and made a
special request for them this Christmas.Starting clockwise from the top, there's
white fudge, fantasy fudge, turtles,

and Big Mama's Toffee.

I still have a church party on Friday night and my sister Cecil and her hubby Brian are having a party on Saturday night. I'll have to take goodies to both of those, so they'll be getting some of these I have pictured and the ones I've already made and have hoarded away.

I'll be making my cheesecake on Friday so it can ripen for Christmas day, and I'll be making 2 Italian Cream Cakes on Saturday for Cecil's party. One is to eat at the party and one is a gift for someone.

Right now I have no idea who will be here for Sunday Dinner and how many. So, as of this minute I have no idea what I'm cooking. I should know more about it by Saturday night or Sunday morning for sure.

My sister Ducky is cooking and bringing the ham for Christmas dinner on Monday. I'll be making the side dishes and I may ask anybody else who's coming for dinner to bring a dish. I'll have plenty of sweets and desserts. I've made dressing at least 4 times in the last 4 weeks and I'm heartily sick of it for the present, so we'll be having something besides dressing to go with that ham. The menu should firm up closer to Christmas as I find out who'll be here and what they're bringing. It would be fine with me to have ham sandwiches for Christmas dinner. It would save me and the other women a lot of kitchen time, too. Stay tuned....

Jessica is doing pretty good at the present time. She still has icky days and moments, but she's gone as much as 4 days without doing a recall on her stomach contents. She pulled some muscles in her belly last weekend and gave us all a scare, but she's doing well otherwise. She pulled those muscles doing something really stupid that a pregnant woman shouldn't have been doing in the first place, but I'll leave it at that. I'm just praising God that she and Peanut are okay.

January 16th we should find out the sex of the baby. They think they want a boy, but I'm willing to bet they won't want to send it back if it's a girl. They already have some names picked out, but they've changed their minds a couple of times. I'll just wait and see. Peanut is fine with me for now. Jessica was "Bud" up until she was born and for a little while after. As long as Peanut is healthy, I don't have a preference either way. Boy or girl, either is fine with me. Good thing, huh? Like we could place an order...

If we're not rained out, a group from my church is going carolling on Thursday night. I have that church Christmas party on Friday night, Cecil's party on Saturday night, church on Sunday morning, then Christmas day. The next several days are gonna be busy for me, and I suspect for most of you as well.

I want to take this time to wish all my blogging friends, regular readers and lurkers a very Merry Christmas, and a blessed New Year.

I love you all.