What a wonderful weekend we had!  On Saturday my sister-in-law brought my nieces up for a visit and we relaxed and caught up and played with the girls.  The girls helped me make chocolate with white chip cookies and we ended the evening going out to a nice dinner.  It was very relaxing and just what I needed to recuperate from travel last week!

Today I continued with Christmas cookies, making up gingersnaps, gingerbread (with icing decoration) and butterscotchies!  It took all day but I was able to make up plates for the neighbors and have plenty of left over for work on Tuesday (lunch pot luck).

Plates for the neighbors!

And the extra gingerbread cookies ready for work. (The rest were drop cookies so I put them in baggies to save till Tuesday).

This was a first with the piped icing for me but I got to break out all my fun decorating supplies and whip up some frosting.  It took all afternoon (from about 1pm-5pm) but that’s not too bad and I had Christmas movies and then music going in the kitchen while I baked!

I ended the evening doing Christmas cards after delivering the cookies to neighbors (well half, 2 of them weren’t home tonight so I’ll try tomorrow night).  We’re almost done shopping for Christmas, just a couple quick trips maybe tomorrow evening and then a little bit of sewing and we’ll be all set to go!