Day Nine - Chocolates, treats and me!

Happy Easter everyone!  I woke up this morning to get up and fill hollow plastic metallic eggs with chocolates and treats for my children and my niece's and nephew.  As I packed the eggs with the peanutbutter cups, mini cream eggs, mini cabury caramilk eggs I started to think about the change I have made.  Normally I would be packing the eggs and grabbing a mini egg for myself here and there and truth be told I don't even know why as I am not a huge chocolate fan.  I had a few trays of 8 peanut butter cups ....I watched my husband devour the tray in short order.  I could smell the chocolate and peanut butter and for one slight moment was disappointed, but then I just laughed to myself.  Nothing in life comes without sacrifice...right.  I headed out of my house and stopped at my parent's church to run in a Easter Card for them....and what was there in the lobby....yes a large buffet of different kinds of cheese, ham, pineapple, breads, yogurts, fruits (now see this bothers me more than the chocolate cause I love cheese and fruit).  I avoided the buffet and talked to my parents spoke with a few other people and made my exit.  Next stop was Tim Hortons for my husband....of course, the new Turkey Chipotle Cheese Bagel Sandwich is on a huge poster when you hit the drive through.....laughing I said out loud "great just what I wanted to see."  I was part way through the drive through when my son decided he needed a toasted bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese....the darn smell made my mouth water.  Now finally on my way to church , got my small bottle of diluted apple juice and I am doing fine.  At church, listening to the service and my niece is popping chocolate in her mouth every so often and I am smiling.....good thing she is the size of a peanut.  Church is done, everyone is talking about Easter dinner.....some are talking turkey,stuffing and all the trimming, some were talking about Hams and scalloped potatoes, some were talking about lamb and mint jelly then there was the ones talking about stuffed salmon.....then I was sad and a little hungry.  Just my luck today after church there is a program called "corner cafe" today they had a lovely buffet of sandwiches ( of course, the one and only this I can say that I have craved this whole time was on the sandwich tray...tuna), cheese and cracker trays, fruit trays, sweet trays, and a lovely cake.  I was sure today wasn't my day.....but I continued to smile and drink my juice.  Now I still have to say that I haven't had any pain , but last night for the first time I had this funny wave of lightheadedness and nausea.....and again this morning.  Now this could be that I just did too much yesterday or maybe I didn't drink enough fluids (finding the broth is getting harder and harder to have .....bland tasteless yuk water) looking forward to thursday when I can finally have some creamed soups or the homemade pureed soups I made.  Flavour or lack there of is driving me nutz.  Oh....and the funnier part is my friend knitter just called and said that she is bringing Cabury Easter Creme Eggs Brownies over for my family for dessert tonight.  I think I better laugh or I just might cry.  Anyways, I am trying to have a little more fluids and I think I am gonna take a nap.  My wonderful hubby is handling the ham and glazing it for me right now.  Cheesy herb & garlic scalloped potatoes are in the oven just need to make the honey glazed carrots but I think I can do that after a nap.  So to all my friends enjoying their Easter dinners from turkeys to prime rib, cake to chocolates enjoy each and every bite and think of me eating my bland broth and jello. Only four more days and I can have a different menu.  That's enough to be thanking the good Lord for lol!  Happy Easter everyone!
Steph