Mrs. Hillbilly Mom's Christmas Workout

Sweet Gummi Mary! Surely you didn't come here thinking you'd find a fitness routine! I'm just doing what I do every Christmas. Making Chex Mix, and wrapping gifts.

In the past two weeks, I've made four batches of Chex Mix. Three in the past three days. That's a workout! It takes about 30 minutes to combine the ingredients and get them ready for the oven. Then it has to bake at 250 for TWO HOURS! No more, no less. TWO HOURS. Getting taken out of the oven and stirred every 15 minutes. So you can't leave it to fend for itself. Can't do much of anything in between, but wrap some gifts.

Monday was actually a good day for that. I knew I wouldn't be getting out in the sleet and snow. Can't be breaking a hip over the holidays! Farmer H said I shouldn't have any trouble on the roads in T-Hoe, but that standing up on the parking lots would be the challenge. Standing up on my own Mansion floor is enough of a challenge for me. So I settled in on the long couch with tubes of wrapping paper and piles of gifts. Hope my boys aren't reading this, because they're not getting much of anything this year, besides cash and scratchers.

You probably can't see the drooping cedar limbs and the falling sneet (snow/sleet). The ground got a little more covered when that snow started, landing on top of the accumulated sleet particles.

Anyhoo...all I was missing was hot chocolate. I should have turned on the electric fireplace in the living room! I was plenty warm, though, every 15 minutes when I stuck my head in the oven to drag out those three pans of Chex for stirring.

Hoisting my ample rumpus off that couch over and over, and hefting one giant roaster pan and two rectangular cake pans of Chex, was as much of a workout as I got. I'm pretty much exhausted.