Mothering Many

Okay, here it is 6 days until Christmas and I have yet to post the first of the promised Christmas Cookie recipes, tips or ideas. I guess it’s time to do that, unless I plan to be a big ol’ Christmas loser, like one of those folks who forgets you wanted an unlocked phone, instead of one you couldn’t actually use.

This is possibly the world’s finest Turtle cookie. It has chocolate and caramel and pecans and it. is. so. good. Here’s my secret: it’s one of the Ultimate refrigerated cookie doughs from Nestle. I know it probably sounds like cheating, but for seriously. So good. Trust me! Use them to kick start your baking, and the house will smell great and you’ll have a tasty treat while you get serious about the measuring and mixing.

Now, I had decided that our Christmas celebrations were going to last well into January even before the events of the past 10 days. Let me announce that being pre-occupied with non-Christmas things does not lend itself to being fully prepared for Christmas, and that my extended schedule appeals to me even more now. The house is finally almost clean, and then we can put up the tree. Maybe. But the cooking and celebratiing and such will go on long past December 25th here at Chez Many.

My next post, however, will be about one of the children, and while I would like to get back here today to do that, my chronic inability to be two places at once tells me that it probably won’t happen until tomorrow.