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the roads are slick with ice, it's in the 20's, a bit of sleet
coming down (very lightly so far) and the temperatures are dropping.
Sounds like a good time to bake Chirstmas cookies. I was gonna finish up
odds and ends Christmas shopping, but I'm not going into town in this
mess. Got MIL, FIL, and both SIL's presents in the mail today... Michael
took them to work with him. Awaiting delivery from Amazon.com for the
rest of Michael's gifts. Have I said before how much I love mail
order?
Gonna make those Mexican wedding cookies. The once with pecans, and
dusted with powdered sugar. They are my favorites. Also will make a
second batch of coconut macaroons. Another favorite. Looks like all my
cookies are white... I have lots of chocolate, so need to look something
up for that... I don't like fudge (horrors... ! :), but some brownies
would be nice, maybe. Need to keep it down a bit, since it's only DH and
I, but two friends and my brother and his girlfriend will be in for
Christmas dinner.
The tree is up again (after being knocked down by 20 lb QI. We reparied
the holes created, put the lights back on. I have an early warninig
system.. I have some woodden bells with jingle bells in them around the
bottom of the tree. I can hear when QI's are getting too close.
The Christmas tree has always been important to me. I was usually the
one to pick it out when Mom and I went. I would always manage to find
the largest tree to fit the alloted space. Even this year, I found a
tree that just brushed our ceiling. I've got all of the family's
ornaments, though John took some for his tree. I've got the silver
filigre bells, only one glass ball left from my Granmother's stuff, it
still has some candle wax on it. It gets pride of place every year. I've
got my glass birds with spun glass tails. The originals are safely
wrapped in a box, their clips are long gone, so they can't be put on the
tree or they'd be there. When I went to Germany last year in October to
visit my Grandmother, I managed to find modern glass birds. I bought
about 12 of them. Taking home a bagful of Christmas tree ornaments on
the plane can be nerve-wreaking! They all made it, though. I also found
some German glass icecycles. Two got broken in the crash, but I bought
some more at the German gift store.
My tree is a reminder of Christmas when I was a kid and both parents
still alive. I've got ornaments that go back to my German grandmother,
some from my American grandparents, and I seem to buy some each year.
Can't resist. It's a mish-mash of glass ornaments, wooden ornaments,
icecycles, and tiny paper red-capped mushrooms that go on the tips of
the branches. You don't know how long it took to find those mushrooms!
We had them when I was a kid, and the slowly wore out, because they are
made of paper-mache'.
I look at the tree and feel sad remembering my parents, missing them
both, and happy that I was able to re-create the feeling. The Christmas
cookie baking is part of that. We always had hundreds of them, all
different kinds.
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Your memories sound as sweet as those cookies! I wish I had ornaments from
my childhood...my parents are still hording them. I also asked my Great
Aunt for the recipes to the cookies I loved as a kid and still haven't
received them yet...oh well. I can *remember* the cookies and almost taste
them... I can also remember other Christmas memories without too much
visual stimuli...Christmas is a time to remember, be it happy or sad - and
to wish for more memories to come... |
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