Merry Christmas! (To-do lists, cookies and just plain Christmas)

And so we have arrived, rather quickly, to Christmas Eve... This month has gone faster than it has ever gone before! I'm always busy on Christmas Eve, getting ready for the following day and our annual Christmas Eve party. I am left with presents to wrap and cards to make, and just all the things that have to be done before Christmas Day! Writing this blog was on my to-do list for today, as well as a heap of other things.
If any of you make to-do lists, you'll know that it's hard to get everything done! I always make them, and sometimes something may keep appearing on them for a few weeks before I have it done! It can sometimes be a race to see whether you can do a number of things faster than you did anything the week before! I hope that someday everything on my long term to-do list is ticked off. Life's big struggle: getting things done.
One thing I had to get done today was decorating the Christmas *cookies I baked yesterday. As much as it was fun, it was a lot harder than I expected it to be! Not only did the dough make much more than the 25 cookies it is supposed to make, but it also took a long time to make and decorate them. The recipe even said that they are supposed to be easy to make. Even with the bumps, the end result was altogether satisfying. I guess it goes to show that nothing is as simple as it says it is!

Anyway, I better finish doing the things on my to-do list!
Merry Christmas!
Sarah xxx

My favourite cookies.

Some of the other cookies. 

My favourite cookies again.





*The recipe for the cookies is from the Avoca Teatime cookbook.