Am I the only one who has been blindsided by the holidays? It still feels like November and all of our Christmas parties are off in the distant next month, but NO, they are happening all around me: cookie exchanges, parties, kids’ concerts, and the like. And I do not feel ready! We still don’t have a tree up (we have an artificial one in storage, but Steve has his heart set on chopping down a live ten-footer now that we’ve got vaulted ceilings in our house) but he’s been super busy so it hasn’t happened yet. We’ll probably haul in the tree on Christmas Eve, enjoy it for a day, then have to take it down, at the rate we’re going.

I have been enjoying the baking I’ve been doing, in preparation for the cookie exchanges I’m attending. But more than the baking, I have been enjoying the EATING of the baking. This should not come as any real surprise. Today I am going to make these.

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Welp, that’s all I got.