Where Does The Time Go?

Boy oh boy! I'm looking at the date of my last post and cannot believe how busy things have been since then. It's been a month - time to get caught up. Let's start with yesterday. I had a few batch of cookies that I wanted to finish up, so on went the carols and I spent the day in the kitchen. 

You know what it's like when there's one or two recipes that you miss if they aren't on the plate... Some have already been gifted!

And this was after we baked all day a few weeks ago at our annual Christmas Cookie Bakeoff.

We did the math and figured out that this was the 30th time that we had held the bakeoff, which is pretty amazing (it would have been 31, except for Covid). 

Julia graciously hosted us again this year and was in her element decorating our wares.

Needless to say, the gals all have the routine down pat and everything went like clockwork. By the end of day we had parceled up 1,530 cookies - just under 128 dozen.

Before all of the holiday baking, cleaning and decorating began, there was the Holly Bazaar. It too was a great success. We welcomed so many visitors to our little church - I think more than ever - and there was plenty of seasonal cheer to go around. I'll share more on that next time, and I promise that it won't take me a month to post it! Hope that if you celebrate Christmas that your holiday prep is well under way....M