“My stomach rumbles. Plates of cookies, cake, and fudge. Christmastime is here.”
The day is lovely with a deep blue sky clear of any clouds. It is colder than it has been, 40˚ at best. Tonight will be in the 20’s, a winter’s night.
The cookie bake began yesterday and will continue today. The orange cookies are done. I made them last night. I’ll start with snickerdoodles today and move on to at least one more. I have a couple of choices. I’ll let you know when I’m done.
When I was a kid, my mother rationed the Christmas cookies so they’d be some left for Christmas. Mostly they were sugar cookies. We would have eaten them for breakfast if she’d have let us. Our defense? Anything goes at Christmas.
My sister greeted me this morning with, “Happy Christmas Eve Eve.” We only use that distinction for the 23rd. If not, we’d have an endless number of Happy Eve Eves.
Under my tree are wrapped Christmas presents from my sister and my friends Bill and Peg. If I were a kid again, I’d be sitting by the tree shaking each present to try and figure out what it is. Without squeezing the gifts, I know a couple. One is Starbuck’s coffee as I get some every year. They’ll also be a book and a calendar and some neat old stuff from Armadillo, a huge store with tables and tables of antiques. Moe finds the best stuff. She’s like my mother that way.
I don’t remember how old I was when clothes were welcomed as Christmas presents. When I was young, the only clothes were the new pajamas for Christmas Eve. All the rest were toys, games and books and in the big years maybe a sled or a bike. I do remember the outfit I mentioned earlier and one other as being Christmas favorites. The first, the skirt et al, was maybe when I was eleven or twelve. My second favorite outfit was when I was in high school. It was perfect. I got a pink Angora sweater and ski pants, which were slacks with loops on the bottoms to put over your feet so your pants wouldn’t ride up your legs from your boots. They were quite the fashion that year.
Now I am in my comfy clothes, perfect attire for cookie making and sipping eggnog dashed with Kahlua.
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December 23, 2018 at 2:18 pm
Hi Kat,
Whenever my mother baked or made fun food for a party or holiday we would attack the goodies. She would always say, you can’t eat ____ it’s for the company. We didn’t care about the ‘company’.
I’m not a fan of sugar cookies with the icing and sprinkles but will eat them in a pinch. The bottom of my cookie eating list includes in no particular order, gingerbread, oatmeal, peanut or peanut butter and sugar. You may have noticed a lack of chocolate in that list. 😦
Chanukah provides a Jewish kid with at least a couple of nights of clothing disappointment. Jewish mothers included a life lesson if we showed disappointment with the cloths. Something about starving kids in China would be happy with that gift. On the first and second night we always got a toy. Usually the fourth, fifth and sixth nights clothing was included with a small insignificant toy. Of course the third and seventh nights were toy toss up nights and number eight brought the big gift that we asked Santa to bring. Santa was considered non denominational. 🙂
Sunny again with the temperature struggling to reach sixty degrees.
December 23, 2018 at 3:31 pm
Omg, I almost forgot that today is ‘Festivus’ the festival for the rest of us, enjoy. This explains everything:
December 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
After watching that, I’m glad for Christmas even more.
December 24, 2018 at 1:26 am
I just saw that episode the other day 🙂 🙂 That’s a holiday for us all 🙂 🙂
December 24, 2018 at 4:00 am
I had completely forgotten Festivus. I watched the whole episode and laughed.
December 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm
Hi Bob,
We would get a taste from my mother then shooed from the room. My mother and father didn’t entertain much when we were kids, but when we were older, their house was where everyone gathered. I remember all the aunts and uncles singing in the kitchen.
I like sugar cookies, but I can’t decide which cookie is my favorite. Chocolate chip is high on the list.
I used to envy the sole Jewish kid I knew because he got a gift every night for Chanukah. My mother said that getting only eight gifts would be easier so we declined her offer.
It was sunny all day but chilly.
December 23, 2018 at 3:09 pm
Grey and dull again today, no fog and no frost even if the temperature was well below 32F.
All food for tomorrow is done now. Meatballs, prince sausages, spare ribs and ham and everything that goes with all those things of course. I will make rice porridge tomorrow though, it works well to heat it up again but it isn’t the same.
I think that my mother, like Bob’s, used the kids in china if we weren’t too thrilled about the clothes we got 🙂 🙂 I can’t say any special favorite present though because I can’t remember if I got the favorites at Christmas or as a birthday gift 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
December 23, 2018 at 4:09 pm
Hi Christer,
Pretty day today but best seen looking outside from the warm house. The sunset is lovely.
I’m still working on the cookies. I have a couple of things to cook for tomorrow night but not until tomorrow as they take only a little time. We’re having two appetizers, a couple of dips and some crackers and cheese while we do gingerbread houses.
I don’t remember my mother using kids in China for clothes, food maybe but not clothes. I usually got gifts I asked for and also some wonderful surprises.
Have a wonderful day.