Actually, we traditionally do not begin our baking until about a week before Christmas. But now that the decorations are up in the house and most of the outside lights are ablaze and I am fully into gift projects and have even started writing Christmas cards… Well, there should be cookies!
I am probably behind on everything, but I am trying not to think about it. I am at the brink of Insidious Doubt and I don't want to fall in. Not just about the feasibility of finishing my gifts in time (and as soon as I am done writing this I am hauling out my sewing machine because I have to bust out some…. Well, I cannot say exactly what I am going to bust out because certain persons might be reading the blog, but it will require a bit of busting out and I had better get to it before evening falls and my knitting wakes up!) And what was I saying? Oh yes, Insidious Doubt. Like maybe what I am knitting will end up ugly or won't fit. Like maybe my Christmas card notes are inane. Like maybe there is too much tinsel garland in the house. Or not enough. Like maybe by the time I get to shopping for or ordering the rest of the gifts they will be out of stock. Or all the free shopping and good deals will be over. Like maybe I will run out of Christmas movies to watch before I run out of Christmas knitting to do. Even if I do watch Muppet Christmas Carol 5 times. Like maybe if I watch Muppet Christmas Carol five times it will lose a little of its magic. Or it will get stuck in my head and I will spout lines from it randomly while I am standing in line buying an over-priced present that isn't what some certain someone really wanted because the displays of what the certain someone wanted have been stripped to the bone and if I don't walk out of this store with something I will end up spending so much of the evening on the internet that I will not be able to finish the ugly and misshapen knitted garment that has to be shipped across the country tomorrow….
See, this is going all sorts of bad ways. Quick, fire up the carols and turn on the twinkle lights and for the love of all that is elf-ly, find me some Christmas cookies!