Monday, December 11, 2006

finished with the cookies!

picture this....
around 11 o'clock last night, we wrapped
up another year of christmas cooking baking!
yes, that's right, not "holiday baking"....
CHRISTMAS COOKIE BAKING!

this was, however, an abbreviated year and
we only went for 2 days instead of the usual 4.
okay i guess, we just had to really keep at
it and not get distracted.
unfortunately, that meant cutting back on some
of the items due to time restraints.
we apologize in advance for having to skip
some of your favorites...
here's me on friday night trying to get a jump
on things..(we normally go friday, saturday,
sunday and monday...anne arrived saturday around 9:30 am.)



here's a crowd pleaser....the infamous
peanut butter blossom..



my brother tim's favorite, the raspberry
almond thumbprints...



a large tray of all of the goodies together...




it kind of felt like we were just getting started
and then we were boxing things up and cleaning!
sort of sad, really.
we look forward to this every year and had it not
been for my sister's surgery tomorrow and
her helping a friend move things up from arizona
we would have gone all four days.

we really got a lot done in 2 days!

me personally? i think we had better start to
train in the nieces on this whole production for
when we decide that our backs can't take it anymore!!

the TCPPA holiday gathering is tonight in bloomington.
they've hire a magician...should be a fun gathering.
tomorrow evening is my PUG holiday dinner at biaggi's!

tomorrow i will spend the 1st half of the day delivering
cookies! yum.....

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