My house is clean enough, and I did the laundry on Friday. That means that today I can chill and try to recuperate. I overdid it for the strength and stamina that I had built back up.

The Ham Sliders that I made for the get-together were a hit. I was on the fence about them since they were similar to a recipe from my children's childhood that they loved that were not heated and also similar to a heated version that they hated. To me the two dishes were so similar that I never understood how one was so loved and the other so hated. I wanted some, so I made them. They disappeared in minutes, and everyone was raving about them. They will be making a return next year.

The get-together yesterday was very enjoyable, with everyone staying late. Even the teenagers were not chomping at the bit to get home to friends. It was nice.

The Dirty Santa exchange wasn't as much chaos and hilarity this year because everyone liked what they got and didn't want to swap, nor did they want to roll the funky dice we sometimes use to get things going. I guess that is nice, but not nearly as much laughter. One teen boy did get a girl's gift, but the next person, his sister-in-law, took it from him and told him to go again. She is new enough, and they live far enough that they aren't around all of us very often, so she was quiet and shy, but she had no problem grabbing that gift. Said it was something she had been wanting to try. We had a good laugh, and she seemed to come out of her shell a bit after that.

I finally finished the antibiotics, and it seems as if they worked this time. I have been on antibiotics, messing up my stomach, for over a month, except for about 3 days between rounds. Ready to be over them. Unfortunately, I traded them for anti-fungals because the antibiotics caused me to have a fungal infection under my breasts and stomach as well as the folds of my legs. Thankfully, none of that intensely itchy stuff and not in the usual areas.