Cookies...

I made cookies yesterday but was disappointed with the outcome.....The weather was giving me a sinus headache and I was tired because the dogs were up 4 times in the night. My heart just wasn't in it. My list of cookie recipients is much smaller then in the past which added to a lack of enthusiasm for baking.

Usually I make 18 different kinds of cookies and bake for 12 hours a day for 3 days. Not this time. I made 4 different cookies. There would have been 5 but I burned the nut wedges and ended up tossing them in the garbage.

Today I get to go out in the snow....which I really don't mind I love the snow......and deliver my measly meager offering of cookies to a few friends. I should be happy, at least I baked cookies. No one else, friend or family, has had the time, and some do not have the money for this luxury. Unfortunately I will not be sending cookies across the country as in the past, overnight delivery costs are to much this year. Plus I do not have enough cookie inventory to do so. How embarrassing.

Baking cookies for the holidays is something I have been doing and have loved to do for 20 years Not to have the heart for it this year is really bothering me. To some this will be the smallest of minor problems and maybe people will shake their heads and wonder why such a big fuss over cookies. There are much bigger problems and issues to worry about. My answer.... the fuss is because baking cookies is something I love to do at the holidays and this year I just don't have the heart for it. That's it. ( maybe it's the hormones that are out of control that are partly to blame)