December Daily -- days 16 & 17

Friday was shopping day to prepare for Holiday Baking Day 2011. It deserves the capitalization, people. It is an event. We didn't do everything on our list. I lost steam somewhere around batch number 5. The sugar and gingerbread cookies are going to have to be made at Grandma's on Christmas Eve. I'm using my grandma's secret recipe for those (i.e. store bought dough) so it should be easy. Everything else was made from scratch with a lot of love and a little crankiness. Our freezer is full of goodies... for my parents, for my sister, for my in-laws. A tray went to my work earlier this week. And plenty for home, just in case we get snowed in for three weeks and there's a chocolate emergency.