Baking Day

Today was my mom's first official Baking Day of the 2008 holiday season. Every year she makes about a dozen different kinds of cookies to give away to a list of people during Christmastime. She schedules about 3 or 4 days to bake, and she usually has company on all of them, either with family doing their own holiday baking or with friends who just drop by to smell the smells and taste the goods. Once everything has been made Mom puts together assortment boxes so that everyone can have a small sample of each kind of Christmas treat. She has thought of stopping this tradition since it is an extraordinary amount of work, but every time she mentions it in mixed company the reaction is always the same: "NOOO!!!!!"

Mom and QP