Last weekend I participated in my fifteenth annual Christmas cookie bake-a-thon.
We made thirteen different kinds of cookies. Here are a few of them.
What’s your favorite type of cookie?
Do you enjoy baking this time of year?
All the talk about sitting being the new smoking has really gotten to me. I spend my days sitting in front of my computer at work, and then come home and sit on the sofa for a few more hours, watching TV and cruising the internet. I cringed as one story after another reported on the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, and felt robbed when they said that even regular exercise is not enough to protect you if you spend most of your day sitting down.
I tried to be more active at work. I tried to remember to stand up to read papers or proofread briefs. I tried to remember to take more breaks to get water. I starting walking files back and forth to my assistant and visiting people in person instead of always sending emails. But I found that I often got so wrapped up in my project, or got chained to my desk by one phone call after another, I hadn’t managed to budge at all.
We decorated our Christmas tree this weekend. I would say, “We finally decorated our Christmas tree this weekend,” but looking over my blog posts from past Decembers shows that we usually wait until mid-December. Now that we are back to having a green tree again, I really enjoy taking my time to decorate, and treasuring the memories associated with each ornament.
This week is the third week of Advent. In a traditional advent wreath, the third candle is pink and is referred to as the “joy” candle. I was taught that this candle is a lighter color than the others (which are purple) to offer encouragement that Christmas is coming, even though it may seem like it is taking forever to get here.
Now that I’m an adult, I worry more about Christmas coming too soon than taking too long to arrive. Between trying to wrap-up year-end projects at work, attending work holiday functions and friends’ holiday parties, and squeezing in decorating, baking, and shopping, there is no time to be impatient. Continue reading
I usually jump out of bed as soon as my alarm goes off at o’dark-thirty, no matter how late I went to bed the night before. Sometimes I’m even awake before my alarm, although that happens less in the cold, dark mornings of December. But this week was the week my building sleep deprivation won out.
It started on Monday. Or maybe Sunday. Or maybe Saturday. Continue reading
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