Frosting

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope you all had just as lovely of a Christmas Eve as we did. We continued our tradition of having the W.’s over. We had an awesome time! We talked, played a game, and ~~stuffed ourselves with~~ ate our traditional prime rib dinner.

I love our Christmas Eve tradition. It is so fun, so laid back, that there is very little stress involved. It makes for a great time.

Melissa and I decorated the table, which we did last year. This year Mom had purchased a new candle centerpiece. (I’m not sure where I was going with that. But we’ll just leave it there anyway.)

Before the W.’s got here, I pulled the gingerbread cookies out and frosted them. I must confess that I *sigh* ate a few. *Sob* I will try better next time.

Voice #2: BUT IT IS CHRISTMAS, right? Do I get ANY cheating around Christmas?

Voice #1: If you hadn’t been cheating as often, yes.

Voice #2: BUT…

Voice #1: Oh, don’t even go there.

Voice #2: Just…whatever.

Never mind. Sometimes these things just happen.

As I was saying, *cough* I decorated the cookies today. I was trying to be artsy and creative (which, although I can be the latter, I am NOT the former by any vast stretch of the imagination). I tried several different things (swirlies was my best), but then I got stuck on words. Words are so fun.

I kept trying to write “twinkle” on a small star-shaped cookie, but all that would fit was “twink.” I tried to get it to fit twice, but only ended up with “twink” both times. Later, as I was looking at them, I realized that I had gotten confused as to where the “i” was, and had dotted the first stroke of the “w” both times. So I ended up with “tiwnk,” or probably more like *tries to find letters that look like what she wrote* nope. They don’t have the letters I was using on the keyboard. How did that happen?

Wow. Maybe I should write my posts this late at night all the time. It might make things a bit more interesting.

And who knows what I will come up with?

Maybe it is better that I don’t.

So I had lots of fun with words. You’ll see in the pictures.

Do you see how long (and how many interruptions – FROM MY OWN BRAIN) it took for me to say that?

Anyway, now for the pictures.

Like you really have to write this on a cookie.

This too

Again, this was pretty obvious

It turns out, “yum” is really fun to write in cursive in frosting.

I started thinking about Christmas carols, and thought about “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.” Well, when there is white, it is often on a tree, right? So I put white on a tree.

Sometimes I’m not sure that I make a whole lot of sense. Or that if I do, it is a rather silly sense that I make.

Whatever that means.

(I really should write my posts this late at night! I’m much more fun!)

When I showed this to Melissa, she said that I should have written “wish” on it (when you wish upon a star). I completely agree. I will have to do that next time.