Dear little blog — oh how I miss you! I just can’t seem to get my act together to post on a regular basis. Except for traditions — which occur at Christmastime. {Sigh}
I saw a funny sign on Instagram the other day:
I feel like that’s been me for several years now. Ok … more than several … probably since children arrived on the scene. But, it’s better than being bored, I suppose. It has been a crazy-busy fall this year — we didn’t even manage to all get together for gingerbread houses this year — the horror!
Anyway, time for the traditional Christmas Eve post. I love to look back and see what cookies I made (and ate for Christmas Eve breakfast LOL) each year — it reminds me what kind of Christmas we had. Here are this year’s cookies:
It’s our off year this year, which means TheFirstChild and the girls are with the in-laws this year, and MyDadLovesMeBestSister and her family have gone south for the holidays, so it will just be TheManoftheHouse, TheSecondChild and Me this year. So, only 2 cookies – sugar cookies are a must (the Jenny cookies recipe from her book) and because I missed them so much last year, my number one cookie, Angel Slices. Don’t worry, I didn’t eat them all myself — I gave some away. For candy, I made my favorite salted caramels and peanut brittle from a Southern Living cookbook recipe.
One of the gifts I usually give the FinallyGirls in their advent calendar is a certificate to make sugar cookies with grammy. But we’ve been gone for most of the month and we just couldn’t fit it in. I did manage to get our smallest cherub one morning while the older two girls were in school, so we decorated the cookies together. She’s five now and we had a great time. I love having the girls one at a time — they’re so cute and funny and yes I AM a biased Grammy LOL.
I can’t believe the year is almost over — I guess, by now, I should expect the years to fly by. Merry, Merry Christmas — I hope Santa brings you everything you’ve dreamed of!
XOXO,
Anna
Merry Christmas, Anna! You’re way ahead of me, I have yet to bake a single cookie this year, although I have hopes of baking some in the next few days. But we did squeeze a trip to Disney World in last week to visit the mouse and more importantly see my daughter and her husband who live there, so that was better than cookies! I hope to steal a day with each of my two older granddaughters who are now in school while they’re on Christmas break. I miss having them once a week. I still have the youngest weekly, she’s 14 months and so much fun! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and wish you all the best for next year!
Merry Christmas Anna and family! Aren’t the grandkids just The Best?
Blessings on all.
Jody
each time i eat cookies for breakfast, i think of you – and cookies for breakfast happens a lot more often than you might think … merry christmas, Anna!!!
Merry Christmas, Anna. I know busy, too. But as the kids get older it does get less easy to have them around like when they were little and didn’t have schedules of their own. Grab them when you can.