Let it snow!

Last night, we got the first significant snowfall of the season. I'm not sure how much fell, but I think it was about 6 inches or so.



Icicles all along the rooftop.



Can you see Pi's snow angel? This was when the storm was just starting.



I was more than happy to stay inside! Since Christmas is less than a week away and there's a work holiday party tomorrow, I used this snowy weekend to start the Christmas baking frenzy. And bake I did!

I started with strawberry muffins (using fresh strawberries) for breakfast. Good stuff!

Peanut butter kiss cookies. The easiest recipe ever and hubby loves them.



More lemon cookies.

Chocolate chip pecan bars. I found this recipe in the Nestle Holiday Favorites cookbook. It was an impulse buy while I was on line for wrapping paper. After flipping through it, it was a very good buy. I want to make almost everything in it!

M&M chocolate chip cookies. I just replaced 1/2 of the chocolate chips with m&ms. Easy peasy.

Let's not forget my favorite Christmas cookies....sugar cookies! In addition to the trees and green stars, I also made stockings, red stars, and white stars. I'm bringing 5 dozen of these to work tomorrow.

I also finished up some teacher gifts that were on the hook. an Ifeoma scarflette for Pi's English teacher, one for the principal (who is super awesome) and a Divine hat for Pi's math teacher. Pi's main teacher is a man, so Pi is giving him a Giants mug. I don't think he'd appreciate a scarflette, haha.

Dirty grandma's cardigan is making progress too. I finished the body and one sleeve this weekend. Just one sleeve to go! Only 3 days, but I think it can be done.