Cookie Time

First holiday Batch

Peanut Butter Blossoms

A Classic Holiday Cookie around here

My favorite part?

I race to see if I can unwrap the kisses

 before the cookies come out.

Silly I know, but it's part of the tradition for me.

Tomorrow I make the dough for my

 Mexican Chocolate Hearts

which I'll bake Friday.

Friday I'll make the dough for 

Pepparkakor ( a gingerbread type)

which I'll bake Saturday.

Tonight I have another bar cookie to make. 

The name escapes me.

(Snickerdoodle Bars - came to me 12 hours later)

I used to make 8-12 varieties  for many years

and drive myself crazy with  

multiple cookie exchanges etc.

Now I make the 4 types my family enjoys 

and we gobble them all up. 

Well, maybe a few go to friends here and there.

Thursday is Darling Daughter's B-Day,

so no baking.

Remember that young girl I dropped

off at NYU a few years back?

Thursday she is 23

Graduated, Working, In Love, 

Living in NYC

Turns out I will have a house full of 

young folks here after Christmas as well as before.

Seems Hannah and her beau have several 

friends coming in for New Years and I am

already out of bedrooms.

Time for the blow up in the living room.

 A loud and busy full house...

Time for soups and chili and casseroles..

I'll go easy on myself and buy the breads...

Lord knows we'll have enough cookies

and how happy this mama will be.

May you be as blessed this Holiday Season

Z

bet you can see my grin from 

wherever you are