I spent the ENTIRE day making cookies on Tuesday. Can I think of a better way to spend five hours as I'm approaching Christmas? No, I cannot. What else could have been better when it was freezing cold outside and I could sip coffee and chat with Lu while rolling out my dough and dying my icing?
Tangentially, this holiday season has been so much more enjoyable than previous ones, and I think it's b/c I have so much more time to do things the way I want to do them, to carry out my vision, if you will. I like to do the chores required around Christmas: making lists, shopping, wrapping, baking. This is my stuff. Normally, it's all shoved into the few hours between work and dinner and ends up being just a big pile of stress. Maybe I could handle the housewifing gig. I'm just saying...
Anyway, I made cut-out cookies for the in-law extended family gift exchange. Edible gifts are my go-to gift of choice for pretty much anyone outside the immediate fam circle. Is is inexpensive? Yes. Can I produce mass quantities? Yes. I meant to take pictures of all of them before I packed them up, but I forgot. Oh well, here are some samples of the process and resulting delicacies.
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