I had a more informational post planned for today, but I just don’t have it in me, so it will have to wait until after Blogmas. I’m so freaking tired, but for lots of festive reasons!
The first of which being my annual Christmas cookie baking night, which I’ll share today! Nothing like some cookies to get into the holiday spirit, right?
This tradition started in my freshman year of high school (eek).
And we’ve done it every year since. We usually use this recipe for sugar cookies, and then make frosting from the recipe on the powdered sugar.
Let’s see if I can dig up throwbacks from the years past, shall we?
^This is freshman year. The VERY first time we made cookies actually wasn’t for Christmas!
^Also freshman…?
^Sophomore. We made a gingerbread house murder scene and gingerbread cookies.
^Junior
^Senior. No cookie pictures but I KNOW based on these pictures we must have done it.
^College freshman
^College sophomores
^College Juniors
^College Seniors
And now, somehow, we’re college grads, but we still managed to squeeze it in.
We started the evening with dinner at a Japanese restaurant. I had miso soup and salad with grilled chicken.
And of course, everyone was decked out in their Christmas sweaters.
We poured a little champagne as we rolled out the dough.
Once everything came out, it was decorating time! I had some help from Chloe, of course. Once she got over how excited she was to see everyone, she was much calmer thankfully!
And here are the results!
I actually used half gluten free, half regular flour for the dough. I thought that I would be able to eat a few bites then without dying, and without harming the texture too much!
Delicious. No death, but I think I was way sleepier than I should have been when everyone left just before midnight!
Such a great night with friends, and I love this tradition that we’ve maintained year after year. I hope it’s something I continue to look forward to as our lives change and we move away!
This morning, I participated in another Christmas tradition. At 6am. But come on, worth it for 12 days of Christmas!
This is always a fun one. The workout goes like the song…1 push up, 2 burpees 1 push up, 3 PU 2 burpees 1 push up….etc.
I used 75# for the barbell movements and finished in 36:55. It was surprisingly festive for 6am, and definitely a fun way to start the day! That being said, I think a nap may be in my future….
One a final note, I achieved one of my life goals of getting a snapchat filter on my cat. Merry Christmas.
