Ready for Christmas

I think I'm just about ready for Christmas.  I finished wrapping gifts last night around 8:30 after spending the afternoon in full present-mode.
I posted this pic on Facebook last night with the caption:

Finished wrapping presents for my fam and yes, the ratio of presents to my tree is severly disproportionate. Of course, my little ceramic tree is only a foot tall!

Who knew my pic would cause such a stir with the work fam.  Not in a bad way but we had quite the comment thread going on about presents, my tree and all the jokes that come from our group.  Since yesterday was the last day of work before our holiday break, I brought my work gifts in for the work fam.  The girls got "McGyver kits" (mini manicure sets) and body butter, the boys got chocolate "coal" and lottery tickets and JP got "moose munch" and lottery tickets and I made a tray of chocolate chip cookie bars with chocolate ganache for our group.  It was just a small way of saying thanks for making the last 9 months of this year 10,000% better than the first 2.5 months. 

Today after my Saturday morning workout, I tackled cleaning up my entire place and getting it ready for Mom and Michael's visit on Christmas Eve and finished buying the last of the ingredients I needed for our dinner on Monday night.  Besides actually cooking everything, I think I'm set for Christmas Eve.  I'm just hoping my dinner turns out better than these did....

Cookie Fail!!

Earlier in the week when I was pressed for time, I tried cutting corners and saving myself some time by using refrigerated cookie dough the other night rather than making my own and my cookies turned out not quite as planned.  (Note to self: Trust your gut and make your own dough even if it takes a bit longer!)  Those are supposed to be sugar cookie blossoms but they spread way more than I wanted them to.  I'm sure they still taste good but they looked like an HR violation, so instead of taking them to work this week, they're just hanging out at home waiting for my family to mow them down at either one of our Christmas gatherings because to them it doesn't matter what they look like as long as they are delicious!