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Let the baking begin!
Dec. 21st, 2012 01:50 pmWell, almost. I'm waiting for Roy to get back from his errands to go out to the Acme and get various baking supplies etc. Then there will be snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies and gingerhobbits and such. And I'm almost recovered enough from the near death springerle experience to mix up another batch, except for the serious egg shortage...
All the gifties that actually need to be in hand before Christmas are in hand, with only two remaining to be wrapped. Last year I set up a wrapping station in the basement, away from the curious eyes of the giftees, and that has worked well, so I've done it again this year. I found the Word file that prints gift labels on Avery 5160s, and the one that would print gift tags on business cards if I had any card stock left. All that remains is to locate all the recycled gift bags for the stuff I don't feel like wrapping because it's an odd size.
I was scheduled to do tutoring today. I thought about that long and hard. Yeah, I'm going to spend the last half hour before second graders are released for Christmas break trying to get three kids, one totally ungovernable, to sit still and read. Did I mention they'd have to be pulled out of their class party to do it? Oh, that would work out well. So I called the school, spoke to the teacher, and suggested that this may not be a good idea. She said I could come in if I wanted, but she clearly didn't much care. One of the volunteers in charge of the tutoring program has asked for feedback and I plan to give him some...
The skies are gray, and although it's not actively precipitating at the moment and although it's too warm, it looks like snow -- which is nice for Christmas time.
And so there's not much else for me to do right now until Roy gets back, except to go wrap those two presents and rummage in my Christmas swag looking for other bits of decoration.
All the gifties that actually need to be in hand before Christmas are in hand, with only two remaining to be wrapped. Last year I set up a wrapping station in the basement, away from the curious eyes of the giftees, and that has worked well, so I've done it again this year. I found the Word file that prints gift labels on Avery 5160s, and the one that would print gift tags on business cards if I had any card stock left. All that remains is to locate all the recycled gift bags for the stuff I don't feel like wrapping because it's an odd size.
I was scheduled to do tutoring today. I thought about that long and hard. Yeah, I'm going to spend the last half hour before second graders are released for Christmas break trying to get three kids, one totally ungovernable, to sit still and read. Did I mention they'd have to be pulled out of their class party to do it? Oh, that would work out well. So I called the school, spoke to the teacher, and suggested that this may not be a good idea. She said I could come in if I wanted, but she clearly didn't much care. One of the volunteers in charge of the tutoring program has asked for feedback and I plan to give him some...
The skies are gray, and although it's not actively precipitating at the moment and although it's too warm, it looks like snow -- which is nice for Christmas time.
And so there's not much else for me to do right now until Roy gets back, except to go wrap those two presents and rummage in my Christmas swag looking for other bits of decoration.
