I am so behind in my Christmas baking! I was planning on making cookies today, but instead I ended up cleaning the house with the girls. This way tomorrow we can spend the day baking without worrying about cleaning. Of course, it will all start out fun and exciting....

I'll get up bright and early and get ready. The kitchen counters will be full of ingrediants, the oven pre-heating, the kitchen aid ready to roll. The girls will meander into the kitchen and decide which type of cookie they want to make. Wee one won't be able to make up her mind, and Betsy will know what she wants, but wee one will get mad because she wants to do hers first. I will gently explain that I can start Betsy on hers while she decides. Bets will begin mixing just as wee one knows what she wants, and then she will start yelling that Bets is taking too long....I'll step in and give her another bowl and the hand mixer, to which she will reply, "Why does Betsy get the good mixer?" Cue Betsy's cell phone, and she will walk out of the room for "just a minute". Half an hour later I will be trying to get  her cookies out of the oven because Wee one will have filled three sheets with cookie dough so close together that it looks like one big glop. At this point I will suggest she go watch a cartoon so that I can get things straightened out....and I won't see either one of them again until 4:00 when the baking is done, dishes are washed and I am ready to collapse from exhaustion. *Sigh....

John took the girls shopping tonight for my gifts. I can't wait to see what they came up with. All I know is that for two years now I've been asking for an ice cream maker, and whatever has been wrapped is definately not big enough, or the right shape to be what I want. Of course, I will love whatever it is....but dang it, I want my freaking ice cream maker! Oh well, maybe I should have written to Santa. I still have to order a gift and buy one more for my grandmother. After that I'm done. Tomorrow I have to go to the bank and deposit some checks, (I know....depositing during the Christmas season....seems backwards!) and stop at the grocery store. I keepforgetting things when I go there. I forgot oj and tea. And you just know I need the juice for all those cookies I'm making....mmmmmmm, juicy!