frenzy

For some reason, I went into all out Christmas mode yesterday. Maybe it was the realization that today is the last day of school and I had 1597 things to do. So off we went.
Ethan and I went to Bible study where I had a lovely time with my friends there.
Then we went to the store to get snack and cookie supplies.
We came home and did a bit of cleaning, and cooked some dinner.
After dinner the kids and I made some of those pretzel-hershey kiss-m&m things. We don't know what they are called, and none of us could come up with a good name. We are still thinking.
Then I baked some cookies from a recipe that belonged to my great grandma. They are called sugar and spice cookies. They have molasses and cinnamon and ginger in them, and as they were baking, I honestly remembered the smell. Each batch made 4 dozen, and I made two batches, as they were very easy. I sent all but about 8 cookies to work with Doug. They have that "eat me with coffee" taste, and so the firemen will hog down. I also sent the rest of the pretzel-hershey kiss-m&m things to the firehouse. I only needed about 80 for Erin's class, and I made about 200. I don't need that kind of temptation laying around here all day. They are bite size, which makes it worse. Kind of like the donut versus the donut hole idea. I would never eat three or four donuts in one sitting, but I know I would eat the equivalent amount of donut holes at one time. Bite size will kill me one day.
I whipped up some buckeyes earlier this week. I sent some to the neighbor, and we saved one dozen for each of the kid's teachers. I sent those in today along with a cute "Innkeeper's Key" idea that I had seen on a blog. My friend Lori gave me three cool skeleton keys from her stash, and I tied some fabric scraps and ribbon to them with a little note.

I decided against pictures of all this mayhem, in keeping with the Christmas theme that I have going this year. What's the theme, you ask? Well, it has many names.
Slow and Steady.
Relax and Enjoy.
Stress Free.
Less is More.

You get the idea.