and so it continues...

I started chemo again.  This time an oral one instead of the IV type I'd had last summer (they'd installed a port up near my collarbone where everything was pumped in).  The 1 oral one had horrible side effects.  I got sores in my mouth and throat to the point that I couldn't eat or take any of my meds.  Chunks of skin started coming off my feet and parts of my hands.  That's when they said "Gee, maybe we should try something different".  The one I'm on now just makes me exhausted all the time.  That may sound pretty bad, but compared to last summer and the 1st one this summer - I'll take it w/out bitching too much.  Originally (this time around) they said I should be done w/ chemo by this fall...well, it's the end of September and now they are saying it will be - at the earliest - the end of the year.  Woo Hoo  :{

On the bright side tho...  My absolutely hilarious grandson is 3 1/2 and is tons of fun to play with & I now have a grand-daughter.  We gave her a teeny tiny baseball glove because I refuse to have any sissy girls in my house!

I'm getting ready to start making Christmas cookies (I make approx. 1,000 each year).  Here is a recipe of something new I'm going to try this year:
http://www.recipebyphoto.com/white-chocolate-dipped-bugle-bites/
It looks easy and sounds yummy.  Any other suggestions for good & easy, but different Christmas cookies?

I need to go work on my checkbook - yuck - so, I'll be back again soon....