Oh Today Today... BLAHHH and WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Today was such a busy day. I spent yesterday baking and preparing for today. I made the aforementioned faux peppermint joe joe's. They were messy and the recipe was poorly adapted, but the cookies are nommy. The filling was a nightmare but with much effort I made it into a really tasty peppermint glaze! Even Auntie loved it and she does not dig on pepperminty stuff. So I decided to make brownie bites for the scouts meet and Jen's reception. Then I topped them with some of the peppermint filling. Tres good! I still have so much no clue what to do. Auntie says I should stop baking so much and rest. But that's so not me. >>  The kiddles were at their dad's so I had the day to do whatevs.. which was making breakfast one hour of me time, then cleaning, dressing up to try and look nice for the days events. Shopped for the next week and a half. And got all the nonfresh prep stuff I need for Thanksgiving, except I need to go back to Golden Harvest and snag some vegan broth for to make stuffing! I have all the ingredients I need for the next few days when I am planning to experiment with potential Christmas goodies. I hope that people at open mic want to sample them, because at this point unless crazy stuff happens I will have three or four goodies. I digress. After shopping was a quick trip home to unpack them. Played with the pup for a few minutes and then a surprise mid day visit from the children. Then got Aidan in uniform and it was off to the scouts big popcorn sale pick up,  Turkey bingo and potluck. It was fun, but Noodle totally crashed out on me. So we left before bingo. Thanks to all who bought popcorn, Aidan is a popcorn knight again! I have to find out how he can earn the belt loops we missed at the last scout meeting I did not know when it was., :( After scouts I delivered some of the popcorn. Then went for tea and toast with Auntie. We chatted and relaxed. Then we got ready and went to Jen's and Ivan's reception. They picked a super place for a reception. It was very serene and smelled lovely like autumn leaves and a nice fire. Scott was there grilling away on some ribs. Jen was totally adorable as always with a phenomenal green coat! Aunt Julie and I had a nice time and they had a great spread of nommies. I got to have some homemade hummus and some zucchini salsa! I must say both were excellent! Plus some ho-hocake!  Nom. And Jen serenaded Ivan with "Make you feel my love" while Scott and Bob played. It was beautiful! I had a great time. Then back to town. Home for a little cleaning and moving of things. Then kissed the kiddles bye and back out the door to see Mandy Mae for coffee! It's always nice to catch up.  And then after like 8 cups of coffee. >> Back home to do some cleaning, packing, present wrapping for Laura Beth.. and getting ready for the home showing tomorrow. I am so flipping exhausted!!! If you made it to the end of this, thanks! <3 It's was quite sweet of you.