Note to self.

[rivka]

Dear Rivka,

"You know those people I should probably get token Christmas presents for? Why don't I bake them all something yummy?"

Great idea. Marvelous idea. FOR SOMEONE WHO ISN'T 33 WEEKS PREGNANT.

(And who isn't directing a Christmas pageant. And who will be able to start baking before Alex goes to bed. But the "33 weeks pregnant" item is the one you should've been paying attention to.)

Love,
Rivka,
who is going to go to bed as soon as the third and fourth pans of pumpkin-cranberry-pecan bars are out of the oven. Third and fourth of seven.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor you!

[namedphoenix.livejournal.com]

Wow. I feel your pain only because I and a friend spent 5 hours baking/cooking 12 batches of candy and filling 24 jars of cookie starters.

You are, without doubt, on par with an Olympian with your strength! You rock. even if it wasn't the most comfortable of choices...

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm 5 weeks behind you and spent the whole weekend moving my library and putting together bookcases so we could actually start getting the nursery organized. What was I thinking??

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

word.

however, if you are going to go the homemade route, may I suggest truffles? dead easy to make and impressive in small batches. I also just found two different chocolate cookie recipes that make literally 100 cookies - each. Icebox cookies are also high on the impressiveness (mix chocolate and vanilla to marble them - they look amazing) and low on the effort (though they do take a couple of days to make b/c you have to rest them overnight).

Tis hard to figure out what to do for friends and coworkers. You don't want to do NOTHING because that seems so grinchy, but buying everyone the same thing seems, well lame, and can get expensive, and making stuff by hand is a helluva lot of work.

A friend of mine ended up making forty potholders. Forty. Plus homemade beer. No wonder potlach cultures tend to go bust...