Why do the Sauk's reek of Abundance you ask?? Well it is because I declared that I would make a lot of money and we would have a great year full of many things! Also it might be because Aysha believes as well and took this message to heart. How do I know this? Because she was so sweet and decorated her Valentine box all by herself this Thursday while I was working. As her finishing touch she decided to put the essential oil that Matt's team owner gave us....Abundance (the team owner Kristin puts it on all her money and really believes in it, Aysha knows this) now unfortunately Aysha doesn't have experience with essential oil, as Abundance is our only bottle. Well she put about a quarter of the bottle on the box. Not only did it stain the cute hearts and flowers but it made our entire house STINK!! I put it in the garage thinking it would air out and so then our house and garage stunk. While I believe the smell has mostly subsided I still believe we will have an abundant year!! I was reminded of this just tonight as a matter of fact when I was throwing the last bag of trash in our garbage before it went out to the curb and I thought wow, even our garbage smells like abundance, now who can say that? Though it was not the best smell for our home and garage it really is an improvement for our garbage.
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So as you know the Valentine box did not make it. It was seriously cute she put an MP3 player on the front and headphones inside so it would play music. Very clever I thought. Anyway all is well because she went over to a friends and decorated a new one. A suitcase theme, from Pinterest I believe. Maybe I will post a pic later if I get motivated.
Me in an effort to avoid work that I had brought home and work that I needed to do for my home made cookies this weekend. Peanut Blossoms with Reeses hearts and Dove dark chocolate and cherry swirl hearts. Cute, but also simple and very tasty. I normally don't like these cookies (PB is not my fav) but I think with the candy twist I enjoyed them more.
And what is Valentine's without the traditional heart sugar cookies? These are my serious weakness. I make them super fat and moist with yummy cream cheese frosting. Now I just have to figure out how to get rid of all this stuff with out eating it all.

AND I blame my friends...you know who you are. I don't think I was really planning on making this stuff until there was some upset about gluten, red dye, and peanut butter so I guess this was my private rebellion, yet my thighs are punished! I have yet to read my friend Keely's blog because she has posted a pic of heart cinnamon rolls and I just know if I see a big picture or read about them I'll have to make them. I am going to try and be strong. Having this stuff around the house isn't good for any of us. I was reading to Trinity tonight on my belly on her floor for what ever reason and saw SIX chocolate candy wrappers under her bed, WTF. I asked her how they got there and she put her head down as said "I'm going to be grounded from candy, aren't I?" Damn straight you are (well I mean after Valentines and I can get all this other goodness out). I didn't really answer I just gave "The LOOK". Then as I was starting the dishwasher and getting ready to write this. I noticed someone (MATT) had eaten the rest of the Reese's hearts not on the cookies, save one, WTF. Self control people! Luckly, everything is put away now. Then I started writing this and had to dig out the pictures and thought those sugar cookies look REALLY good, so I had one, at 9:30 p.m. very bad practice. It was really good thought, not to toot my own horn, just say'n.
So I have decided on Thursday we are going to purge the house of all goodness. Yes Thursday, I have too much blood, sweat, and tears in this stuff to just throw it out now. Okay not really because I think those things would make my cookies taste gross, but you get my drift so I am waiting until Thursday. That is when our FAMILY will start weaning ourselves from sweets and treats (that is until Girl Scout cookies get here in a couple weeks).