It's beginning to look like Christmas around here. We pulled the tree out of the garage, and I have already set it up, played with the branches, and got it all decorated. Last year, I put Grogu (Baby Yoda) at the top of the tree. This year, I have the Millenium Falcon on top, which is an iconic Star Wars space ship. My husband looked at it and said I need therapy. I think it looks pretty good.
There is Christmas music playing, and I have a batch of white chocolate biscotti baking in the oven to kick off the start of Christmas baking. More baking will need to wait for another day though. The biscotti is probably my husband's favourite, so I have decided to make two batches this year. I am glad that I was always planning on making the two batches on different days, because I didn't realize I was out of almond extract for the recipe! Since I had already just made a last minute quick trip to the store for the necessary orange juice, I wasn't going to head back out just for some almond extract. I spun the lazy Susan holding my extracts and such a couple of times, hoping I'd find a bottle of almond hiding somewhere and also figuring out how I could salvage the recipe I had already started. My extract choices were vanilla, chocolate, coconut, rum, peppermint, and orange. Since there is orange juice in the recipe already, I figured that orange extract might be okay. I'm sure it won't be terrible, but I am still going to pick up some almond extract before I make the next batch. My husband's only reaction was to ask how long until he could eat some, and he was disappointed to learn that biscotti needs to bake twice.
I also started my 1000 piece candy cane puzzle yesterday. It's tradition! There are a lot of life lessons that run through my mind when I work on that puzzle, so I might blog about that another day.
Friday's shopping excursion was somewhat successful, but there are still a few things I need to find or decide on. My daughter was shocked that I had gone shopping on Black Friday. Black Friday was not my motivation in going, but I did end up taking advantage of a sale or two. The plan is to hit the big craft market this coming weekend. Not sure if I can finish my shopping there, but my goal is to be finished by this time next week!
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