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LeeAnna has asked
If you could eat only one type of cookie this holiday season, which cookie would you be eating a lot of?
What would be the ideal way for you to spend Christmas Eve?
I love a good shortbread cookie. But it needs to be plain, with no added extras! I am all about the smooth buttery goodness! Years ago, I had a neighbour who made the yummiest shortbread cookies. I was glad to get them when we did a cookie exchange. There is no reason I couldn't make them. Well, that's not true. I don't like baking and I don't want to have that many cookies accessible! I also don't generally eat cookies so my hubby would eat more than he should. I gotta protect him from himself!
My ideal way to spend Christmas Eve is with my family. I treasure having them all together. We enjoy having a munchies/grazing-type meal together. It is relaxed and low-key. I always have a pair of pjs for the kiddos to open on Christmas Eve. I am surprised that they look forward to it. I was never excited to get any kind of clothing for Christmas. Actually, I still feel that way.
Every year we have been making Christmas simpler. Hubby and I no longer give each other presents. We call our winter vacation a gift to each other. This year we have booked a cruise for the end of February. I am excited to try a cruise. This will be our first. It starts in NYC and goes to the Bahamas. I might be the most excited about being in NYC again. I love it there. We plan to spend a day or two in NYC before the cruise. I haven't visited the Guggenheim on past visits. So that is up pretty high on my list. There is so much to see there!
Shortbread cookies sound yummy! I've never made them, but if I did I bet they'd be hard to stay away from. Your cruise sounds wonderful! Travel is the best gift - that's what we do, too. Plan a trip together and call it our gift to each other!
ReplyDeleteI agree - a good shortbread cookie is hard to beat (but if I had only one kind of cookie - I might go for chocolate chip). :-)
ReplyDeleteGinger goes well with Christmas, so I buy some gingerbread cookies to eat in December.
ReplyDeleteI want to spend a slow and quiet time with the family on the 24th and 25th, but in Japan, those days are ordinary working days, and the children have not yet started their winter vacation. On Boxing Day, we must begin preparing for the New Year's holiday, so it is the first in a rack of cleaning days!