The Cookie Making Has Commenced!

It is December, and the air has finally cooled down, and it is beginning to feel like winter. I have just finished my classes for the semester and it is time to move on to the next phase of December, the Christmas holiday!

I'm so excited to go to the Lincoln Center to see Handel's Messiah at the Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday night. I have dusted off my scores and I just need to pick out an outfit. My good friend Sharilyn is going to join me in my yearly tradition and we will sing our little hearts out. I love Sing-alongs! Can't wait till the 16th.

Tonight I made the first batch of cookie dough, orange sunshine cookies. These are carrot cookies with an orange frosting. Tomorrow is going to be the beginning of the cookie assembly line. I have planned on making at least nine different types of cookies. Ginger cookies, mexican wedding cookies, snickerdoodles, lemon bars, orange sunshine cookies, cherry macaroons, peanut blossoms, sugar cookies and chocolate crinkle cookies. I love making cookies just as much as I love eating them. It makes me happy. I don't even know if the people who get the cookies even like them, but I enjoy making them just the same. It gives me a reason to go and visit people, and I love doing that too. I may decide to post a picture of the finished products if I remember.

Here are a few other things that I plan on doing during the Christmas Holiday. Free ice skating in Bryant Park, because I own my own skates. :) Going to the Met because I haven't been there in years. Rockefeller Center to see the tree and 5th Ave to see the window displays. Watching movies that I haven't had the chance to see yet. Best of all hanging out with Maddie and Terri! Terri and I will try and get a little sewing done before January.

I am looking forward to relaxing and maybe even getting a few runs in. It feels good to be free from deadlines for a little while.