We had a lovely get-together for Rachel’s 25th birthday. We each dressed as a character from a book! Mom was Fannie Farmer, Dad was a cowboy (I can’t recall from which book...help!), Grandma Pearl threw a Santa hat on and called it done, AJ and Rachel were James Herriot and his wife (what’s her name, Rachel?), Erin was Meg March from “Little Women,” Moriah was Arwen from “Lord of the Rings,” Tom and I were Dr. Zhivago and his lady (played by Julie Christie in the movie), Ian was the cheshire cat from “Alice in Wonderland,” and Nina was Madeline from the children’s books. Such fun!
And just for the record, I didn’t really like the movie Dr. Zhivago, have never read the book, and love wearing fur coats!
I love having people over to bake absurd amounts of Christmas cookies. But I like to pretend that I enjoy the lovely company and actually baking the sugary concoctions more than eating them. I attempt to spread most of the festive results to unsuspecting neighbors, co-workers and unassuming victims. So in this particular instance, my comrades Cerah and Chandra were helping me out. I would like to identify here each specific bar, cookie or baked product that we made, but the fact is that I cannot recall what was attempted but most importantly, what resulted! But no matter. They were all delightfully GOOD!
P.S. My favorite is when my artistic husband makes visual art from them.
