Morning girls! Hope everyone is doing well!
Maggie: Did you have a good time at your wedding yesterday? My niece is getting married in February but we aren't going. It is going to be in Las Vegas and I told them if they planned it close to Christmas and decided to have it there we wouldn't be able to come and neither would my other sister and it looks like a lot of the rest of the family is not going either. They have been going together for years and living together for at least 4 years and just got engaged at Christmas so I don't know what the rush is. She is not pregnant and if she is rushing because she is afraid he will back out, that is a stupid reason for getting married as divorce will be a sure thing. It is their wedding and they can do as they like, but they didn't consider any of her mom's family (none of her dad's family, though large will show up I am sure as they have little contact with them) when they did this.
I had a terrible night last night and woke up in pain this morning. I think it is a combination of the weather and our stupid bed. We are getting a new mattress etc but I am waiting until after Christmas to get the inventory sales around here. We have a state law where these companies have to pay tax on inventory they have by Feb 1 so they have these great sales all over the place. Best time to buy a car here too.
Next week is going to be busy. I have Thomas on Thur and Frid, T's Christmas program Friday morning then grocery shopping and cookie baking. Promised dd and t I would go with them over the weekend to see the Lemony Snicket movie and I have these cookies that take two days to make, one day to make the cookie part that has to be refrigerated overnight and the second day to make filling, fill and bake and it makes 10 dozen and takes all day. Thank goodness I have a husband that helps me or it would take me 3 days to get them done. Has anyone ever had Kieflies? They are a Hungarian cookie and I haven't made them in 2 years and decided to make them this year along with milk chocolate fudge and choc chip cookies. Most of it will go to my dd and I think I will ship some to my son as he loves the kieflies. The kieflies are a cresent shaped cookie. The dough is made of butter, flour, lemon zest, sour cream and a dozen eggs. The filling is a dozen egg whites, lb of powdered sugar, ground walnuts, vanilla. After baking, they are rolled in powdered sugar. They cost about $8 a dozen in Indiana to buy in a bakery or at the farmer's market. They are really divine I must say but as you can see, very FATTENING! The trick is to roll the cookie dough as thin as paper. Let me know if you like to bake stuff like this and would like to try your hand at them as I will post the recipe! If I remember, I will take a pic when they are finished so you can see what they look like.
Well, enough food talk. Need to get some chores done. I may try and get the downstairs cleaned today if I can get my joints going!
Faye