The Need to Please...

...gets especially terrible around this time of year. We run ourselves raggid and really have no one to blame but ourselves. I guess I should speak for myself only, really. I take on way too many projects way too close to Christmas and then I stress through the holiday season. It must be that whole need to please syndrome. Maybe if I work myself silly over the holidays, someone will notice and pat my back extra hard. Seems so silly to have this need to feel loved and appreciated yet at the same time feel undeserving unless I make these sacrifices. Realistically, I know the people around me love and appreciate me. Guess I'm just a praise junky. How sad is that?

With that said, I finally finished my secret project. I call them Comfort Packs. Included inside is tea, coffee and cocoa all separately, decoratively wrapped of course. Oh, and a few of my homemade, scrumptious shortbreads. What makes them so yummy is the icing. I put a little marachino cherry juice in the icing. Delish! I brought them for the guys in the office. They really liked them. I almost pee-ed my pants when Thom called my shortbreads "nipples of venus." So funny!! I'll never look at one the same again. :) Joseph was very impressed with my card making. I'm getting the nack of it. It's become an unhealthy addiction. :)

So, tonight I'm back at it. I need to finish my ornaments, wrap up the daycare teachers comfort packs and maybe wrap a little. I have a few other projects to work on but they'll wait till later. Anyway, I better get going. TTFN!
~B