The magic of Christmas!

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I’ve shared with you recently my journey of spiritual development through reading “The Monk who sold his Ferrari” which basically tells us the benefits of eating sensibly, meditation 🧘‍♀️ and getting up earlier and seizing the day.

I found that I was getting up earlier and earlier ( like two hours after going to bed earlier) I was wide awake painting, writing and 😏 eating!

The former activities I think would be acceptable but I realised after **** tins of Quality Streets I just had to behave. I felt ashamed 😔 John never missed an opportunity to point out that he had not had one chocolate out of the **** tins that I had purchased. 😇

When my daughter called I told her to help herself to my tin ( I had eaten all my favourites anyway 😋 ) I begged her to take some in her pockets for my grandchildren after school but she refused, saying they eat enough rubbish without me adding to it 😳

I faithfully told John that I would not purchase anymore quality Streets, I emptied what was left and put them in a plastic bag in the fridge! …… Did you know that they taste far better when they’re cold 😃

One Christmas I had so many chocolates bought that I put them in batches of three in the freezer, this may surprise you but I then mastered the way to hold a frozen chocolate in my mouth until it defrosted. 😍😋🙃 Oh Yes, I am a woman of many talents and a master of none 🙄

Imagine my and John’s surprise this morning when our online grocery delivery arrived at our door and the delivery man told us we had rather a lot of substitutions to our order.   The supermarket had not had their delivery of fresh carrots 🥕 did we want tinned carrots instead.  Here is me trying to live a more spiritual existence, eating live food from the ground! ( okay I know tinned carrots were once alive) but nevertheless people would recognise that it wasn’t a fresh carrot 🥕

I had ordered a large bag of salted peanuts 🧐 half way to healthy eating, they had substituted them with 6 small bags, I let that one go because peanuts are moreish so that maybe was a spiritual gift to stop me over eating ☺️

Then I heard John say ” A tin of Quality Streets”. ” Oh yes,” said the driver, “that is a gift to compensate for the changes to your order” Personally I think the Universe is having a bit of fun with me or just testing my commitment!  Either way the tin will be given away to a good home! Honestly 😇

X

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  4. I’ve never heard of them, I must check them out! Right now my favorite is Lindt chocolate. But sweets aren’t my favorite anymore. Everything I eat goes straight to the middle since the wheelchair, pita! I’m never hungry. If we go out and I snpmell food, it whets my appetite and I eat whatever I want. Now when I smell baking bread, wow, an old oilfactory memoir.

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        1. I don5 like apples they give me indigestion, and the last orange I ate was horrendous, I thought I was having a heart attack 😬 that was just before I was diagnosed with Barrettes . Bananas and grapes are my favourite 😍

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  5. Elaine, put the sweets into the freezer for one of those days in the future when you need a little Christmas! LOL I love that you can defrost the chocolate in your mouth!! Delightful! Loved this post!

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  6. I didn’t know the tinned food is our version of the canned food. My husband lived in London for two years. I read to him your post and he remembers the tinned food. We can’t have too much sweet in the house either. I love the way you put the frozen chocolate and let it defrost in your mouth. Oh, do you need more than 2 hours of sleep?

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    1. I’m sorry I try to make my words understandable to everyone lol I need my sleep Miriam. Luckily I’m back to normal. Have a wonderful Christmas with your family the first of many with sweet, beautiful little Autumn. Xx

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      1. Elaine, that is unique about having international audience. We learn from each other. Good that you’re back to your normal sleeping pattern. Wonderful Christmas to you, John and your family!

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