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Nov. 30th, 2006 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aisforamyI bought a nut roaster today! No… not that kind! Get your mind outta the gutter! The kind for almonds and cashews and stuff, to make cinnamon glazed nuts! Guess what all my neighbors are getting for Christmas instead of cookies?
Speaking of Christmas cookies…I know I can’t be the only one who gets about a bazillion plates of cookies from friends and neighbors each year. And every year, there is inevitably a plate that the giver OBVIOUSLY let their kids make (or at least decorate) – you know the one. Enough frosting to choke a horse, and most likely applied with fingers that have been licked many, many times in the process. TONS of sprinkles on everything. Yeah. Those. THOSE are the ones I let my kids eat.
I did participate in a cookie swap once, and am considering it again this year. You make a few dozen of your favorite cookies – the fancy kind you really only make once a year because they are such a pain in the butt to make. And you go to the swap where others have done the same, and leave with a nice variety of cookies. It’s fun! I recommend it!
Know what would make it better? Making it a slumber party. For adults – no kids allowed. Break out the cocoa, hot cider, wine—whatever, pop in a chick flick, eat cookies till you feel like you’re gonna puke, and gossip until you pass out.
Come to think of it, this would also work in the guise of a gift-wrapping party…though if there is a lot of alcohol involved, those could be some interesting looking gifts.
All right, I am done rambling. I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning so I can get my prescription refilled, and then it’s off to my sister’s to help her get ready for her garage sale on Saturday, and probably help decorate her house for Christmas, and prepare for one of our other sister’s family coming to town. It’s going to be a long weekend.
Speaking of Christmas cookies…I know I can’t be the only one who gets about a bazillion plates of cookies from friends and neighbors each year. And every year, there is inevitably a plate that the giver OBVIOUSLY let their kids make (or at least decorate) – you know the one. Enough frosting to choke a horse, and most likely applied with fingers that have been licked many, many times in the process. TONS of sprinkles on everything. Yeah. Those. THOSE are the ones I let my kids eat.
I did participate in a cookie swap once, and am considering it again this year. You make a few dozen of your favorite cookies – the fancy kind you really only make once a year because they are such a pain in the butt to make. And you go to the swap where others have done the same, and leave with a nice variety of cookies. It’s fun! I recommend it!
Know what would make it better? Making it a slumber party. For adults – no kids allowed. Break out the cocoa, hot cider, wine—whatever, pop in a chick flick, eat cookies till you feel like you’re gonna puke, and gossip until you pass out.
Come to think of it, this would also work in the guise of a gift-wrapping party…though if there is a lot of alcohol involved, those could be some interesting looking gifts.
All right, I am done rambling. I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning so I can get my prescription refilled, and then it’s off to my sister’s to help her get ready for her garage sale on Saturday, and probably help decorate her house for Christmas, and prepare for one of our other sister’s family coming to town. It’s going to be a long weekend.
