December 23, 2009

This morning the kids and I did some errands. We stopped and had lunch at Burger King and then came home to get started on the cookies. I took the easy way out this year. I just did not feel like doing baking this year. Some years I'm really into it, like last year and the year before, but this year I just couldn't face it all. So, we did the place and bake method this year.

We baked:

• 80 brownies with Christmas swirl chips
• 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies with Christmas swirl chips
• 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies with mint swirl chips
• 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies
• 4 dozen round sugar cookies with sprinkles
• 6 dozen shaped sugar cookies decorated with store bought icing

That's a lot of cookies! And, they were all baked in one afternoon!

We got a phone call from a lady that lives over on Mallard this evening. She said that UPS delivered a box to her with our address on it. So, I went to go get it. It was the wine gift box (which actually only has cheese and stuff like that in it) that Michael's boss sent to us.

Then, after the cookies were done, we went to see Christmas lights. We went through Fort Zumwalt park in O'Fallon and then went to look at a couple houses with cool lights. One house we went to has a website neverenoughlights.com. It was really cool. We sat and watched the lights through about 5 songs. I really enjoyed it.