OT - no fiber or weiner dogs in this post!

This weekend begins my long tradition of Christmas cookie baking!  I have about 8 tried and true varieties that I like to make.  Then every year I like to try a new one.  Some stay on the list - some never again.  This year the new one will be a chocolate cookie with a peanut butter filling http://www.kingarthurflour.com/.  Daughter of course expects the Peanut Butter Blossoms.  Husband likes his chocolate chip and Snickerdoodles, my friend Dora likes my sugar cookies - her husband Pat - the Peanut Butter Temptations.  I like gingersnaps. I had for a very short moment thought about not baking cookies this year.  No one really needs all that sugar, they aren't really healthy for you, blah blah blah.  Then I realized that it's not Christmas for me without them.  And maybe that's what's wrong with me.  That's what I'm missing.  I just haven't had the Christmas spirit so far this year.  So I'm going to spend the day in the kitchen with Christmas music playing (sorry Keith) baking as many cookies as I can.  And I'll even get to try out my latest cookie cutter!  It's a dachshund of course!  Can't you just see a row of dachshund gingerbread cookies with red & green sprinkled sweaters?   (so I lied - there was a wiener dog in this post).