Casa Sosegad

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1. Work on being more patient with my children.
2. Start budgeting and stick with it
3. No impulse buys!
4. I will be a better housekeeper!
5. That means sticking to the cleaning and laundry schedules I decide on.
6. Create an effective cleaning and laundry schedule.
7. Read the Bible in this year.
8. Try to keep up with my prayer habits.
9. Learn to love myself better… maybe not be so much of a doormat with my children and husband.
10. Try to stick with my diet… I want to try and lose around 10 lbs.
11. Learn to code in PHP.
12. Learn to do atleast 5 new things in Photoshop.
13. Take better care of myself!

I got this Santa Letter forwarded to me from a friend… It’s amazing how each child is so different but still most moms deal with so much of the same things!

Dear Santa,

I’ve been a good mom all year. I’ve fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor’s office more than my doctor, sold sixty-two cases of candy bars to raise money to plant a shade tree on the school playground. I was hoping you could spread my list out over several Christmases, since I had to write this letter with my son’s red crayon, on the back of a receipt in the laundry room between cycles, and who knows when I’ll find anymore free time in the next 18 years.

Here are my Christmas wishes:

I’d like a pair of legs that don’t ache (in any color, except purple, which I already have) and arms that don’t hurt or flap in the breeze; but are strong enough to pull my screaming child out of the candy aisle in the grocery store.

I’d also like a waist, since I lost mine somewhere in the seventh month of my last pregnancy.

If you’re hauling big ticket items this year I’d like fingerprint resistant windows and a radio that only plays adult music; a television that doesn’t broadcast any programs containing talking animals; and a refrigerator with a secret compartment behind the crisper where I can hide to talk on the phone.

On the practical side, I could use a talking doll that says, “Yes, Mommy” to boost my parental confidence, along with two kids who don’t fight and three pairs of jeans that will zip all the way up without the use of power tools.

I could also use a recording of Tibetan monks chanting “Don’t eat in the living room” and “Take your hands off your brother,” because my voice seems to be just out of my children’s hearing range and can only be heard by the dog.

If it’s too late to find any of these products, I’d settle for enough time to brush my teeth and comb my hair in the same morning, or the luxury of eating food warmer than room temperature without it being served in a Styrofoam container.

If you don’t mind, I could also use a few Christmas miracles to brighten the holiday season. Would it be too much trouble to declare ketchup a vegetable? It will clear my conscience immensely. It would be helpful if you could coerce my children to help around the house without demanding payment
as if they were the bosses of an organized crime family.

Well, Santa, the buzzer on the dryer is ringing and my son saw my feet under the laundry room door. I think he wants his crayon back.

Have a safe trip and remember to leave your wet boots by the door and come in and dry off so you don’t catch cold.

Help yourself to cookies on the table but don’t eat too many or leave crumbs on the carpet.

Yours Always, MOM…!

P.S. One more thing…you can cancel all my requests if you can keep my children young enough to believe in Santa.

Kulkuls (crisp sugar-coated curls)

Ingredients
Milk of 1 coconut
2 eggs
5 cups flour
salt to taste
2 cups sugar (or to taste)
Enough water to make a thick syrup

Instructions

1. Knead the flour and eggs, coconut milk and salt into a ball of dough.
2. Cover with a damp cloth and leave for some time.
3. Form small balls of dough into kulkuls by flattening and rolling into curls off the back of a fork.
4. Deep fry the kulkuls.
5. Let the kulkuls cool down.
6. Make a thick sugar syrup (use around 2 cups of sugar).
7. Immerse the kulkuls in the syrup until well coated and dry.
8. Remove and store in an airtight container.