Have A Lovely Day!

My newest Santa!

The Cookie Situation Just Got Better!

Ok...Den took care of the absence of cookies by buying almost homemade ones from a great little artisanal food store near us! Plus I bought salted caramels from Whole Foods...dark for Den and milk for me...and we are set...pizzelles and apricot, raspberry and nut melt in your mouth cookies...there is a name for them...Kiffles? I put the butter away for the very last time!


I just saw blurb about cookies on our local news channel...apparently there is a shop in Philadelphia that sells only cookies...people were in line at midnight to get them! That's what I am doing next year...or even better I will send Den...lol!





I am calling on my Italian roots and my mom and my grandmother and making homemade manicotti tomorrow...the kind that you have to make crepes for...my recipe is sort of from my sister and sort of from Epicurious.



Our holiday card this year!







We fought the crowds at Whole Foods and we are set for the next few days...


Happy Wednesday/Christmas Eve!

Still No Cookies...Unless...

Unless you count a box of Trader Joe's fashionably impeccably dressed and PC Ginger People? I even put them in a tin...actually I guess they aren't dressed...sigh!




But putting them in a tin before we give them to the birds should count as a festive gesture? Shouldn't it? I wonder how many times I can soften and unsoften butter...



Finally finished this book...this was a book filled with the most irritating characters...making horrible choices...in an annoying way...this book just might have made me outgrow YA...at least for a while...I hate hate hate not liking a book...but this one? Reviews on goodreads were either a one star or a five star...seriously. Sad...very sad...






Reading this...really good...but I think it's YA ish, too!



The girls and I came downstairs very early this morning while Den slept the sleep of a boy whose Broncos football team let him down last night...we turned on Tree Number 1 and watched The Librarians...my new fave show!



Coffee, kitties, a cozy blankie and 1 1/2 ginger people...my way to start the day!

Happy Tuesday!

Short & Sweet

Still reading both of these...really good but too intense for this time of year...my reading brain wanders as I read...thinking of a million other things...












These just came from publishers, NetGalley and Edelweiss...

















I have everything ready to make cookies and I keep looking for the best recipe but I think I am just going to make the one on the bag...hopefully...






Dinner is from Sheet Pan Suppers by Molly Gilbert...and it's called Roast Chicken And Mustardy Potatoes...it looks good and is really easy!







Happy Monday!

Shopping Really Early!!!

We were at Nordstrom's in King Of Prussia at 8:30 this morning...Christmas shopping! I can't see straight right now! But...we were home and in comfies and done by 12:30.. For us...it's almost better this way...one day of torture...and then we are done!

Pottery Barn has some beautiful ornaments...always on sale at this time of year...it's one of our holiday traditions...so...this year we bought...
Santa Dressed In White!


Bird With Green Vest!


Squirrel With Green Sweater!


And Red Sparkly House With
Santa!


And three new festive plaid pillows! I am snuggled with one now under my furry throw.


Panorama of the trees...


On our way home from King Of Prussia...the bread ladies were baking bread...so we stopped for the best French bread ever...made with a slightly salted crust...it was still warm...and they gave me a free brownie for fixing their money...these ladies are amazing...the brownies are from an old family recipe and so good...they bag them and sell them for a $1.00 each...we try to keep a small supply in the freezer at all times! When the flag is out...there is fresh hot bread! Everybody runs in and gets bread on the honor system!


Happy Sunday!