Cookies, cookies, whose got the cookies?

Patty Cake Patty Cake Baker Woman

Bake me some cookies as fast as you can...

I would like to start this post by saying that today was a great day! Due to the fact that I have to take cookies to work tomorrow for our staff meeting I decided to make cookies today. And when I make cookies I like to make sure that I make enough for everyone. So I enlisted the help of Aeryn and my sister Nancy and the three of us set about making cookies. 

Now since everyone has a different favorite cookie we decided that we would make spritz cookies, peanut butter blossoms, sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies. We had to stop after making spritz cookies and and peanut butter blossoms and I will have to finish the sugar cookies tomorrow because cookies got out of hand. We stopped after around twenty dozen cookies. The sugar cookie dough is chilling in the fridge until I get out of work tomorrow. 

When I was younger my best friend's family would have "cookie day". The four sisters as well as a couple of friends would skip school for the day and we would make dozens and dozens of sugar cookies. I am continuing that tradition with my child minus the skipping school part. It is a little harder for me to skip school these days. My supervisor would frown upon it. But today was amazing. 

Aeryn and Nancy used to cookies press to press out both the spritz cookies as well as the peanut butter cookies while I continued to make batter, prepare spaghetti sauce, and boil lasagna noodles for dinner. Along with all this I was in charge of watching the oven (because I was standing in front of the kitchen) so I had to handle with cookies in and out of the oven. The cookies came out amazing. 

The holiday season makes me love spending time with my family. They all mean so much to me and I know that with the chaos of my day to day life I do not get to tell them that. So while I was shopping for things for dinner, I decided that I would invite my sister Evelyn and her family for dinner as well. Unfortunately she had to decline. So instead I made her a pan of lasagna to enjoy for dinner tomorrow. Her schedule is just as crazy if not crazier than mine. Mondays are the worst for her. So tomorrow I will know that I have made her life a little bit easier. And at no extra hassle to myself.

Now I sit here, writing this blog, watching some mindless TV and knitting.