The baking.
It’s not the eating part. It’s the working part. The mess-making part. The time consuming part.
The eating part I can deal with.
I did the “neighbor” baking on Saturday. Yesterday we started cookies for us. Sugar, peanut butter kisses and gingerbread.
Peanut butter balls are slated for today. But if I’m being honest, I’m not sure it’s going to happen.
It’s just so much work.
Funny. Shopping doesn’t feel like work. Wrapping doesn’t feel like work. Christmas card didn’t feel like work – not even entering data for labels THREE TIMES. Going to the post office to ship gifts wasn’t fun, but it didn’t feel like work either.
But the baking? Nothing fun or relaxing about it… which makes it little more than work. The little more is the memory making part of it for my kids – which is the only justification to do it.
Well, and the eating part.
What’s your least favorite part of preparing for Christmas?
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I would love every snippet of Christmas, if regular life wasn’t still happening. If I still didn’t have work to do. If I still didn’t have a house to keep from looking too trashed. So if I could take a week off of work and everything else, and just shop, wrap, bake, write cards, etc, I’d love it. Hence, I will say regular life is my least favorite part of Christmas.
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I love baking, but I hate to make the cookies that you have to roll out. I am too impatient for that. I tried this year, but only got 2 trays done. Cookie bars are my friend this year. Except for the bourbon balls I’m making tonight……maybe I’ll just sip on the bottle….
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For the first time in my life, like ever, I’m looking forward to the baking part. Maybe it’s because I’ve never done it before? I’m not sure.
But all four kids and I are going to bake tonight, and most of tomorrow. And I’m so excited about it.
This Christmas is probably an anomaly.
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Least favorite part? Deciding where we are going to be every single swingin year. In Chicago with The Husband’s family? Or with mine in California. And do you know how hard it is to ship all of your kids presents to another state just so they are there when they wake up on Christmas morning? And then have to tell them they will be able to play with them in 7 to 10 days after they are SHIPPED BACK to their house? Yeah. I wish every person I knew, everyone who was related lived in the same damn town. Oh wait. Maybe not…I have to rethink this prayer.
Right now I’m hating all of it. Probably because I’m waiting for the cable guy for the SECOND TIME TODAY. And I really need to be shopping for the 5 people that are supposed to be here Christmas morning that have 0 gifts here so far. Oh yeah, and my CHILDREN!!! And, hubby has emergencies at work, and PT for his shoulder so he won’t be home until after 6. I can’t shop FOR the children WITH the children, now can I?
Craptastic, this day is.
Is crying or drinking a better way of handling all of this?
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Hate? Not the decorating. Or the shopping. Or the baking. It’s the extra cleaning.
Put up the tree… needles everywhere, vacuum. Garland… same story. The 10,523 pieces of the nativity aren’t so precious when you have to move each one to dust. How many extra times to do I have to mop the kitchen? Multiply it by the number of baking sessions I have for holiday goodies. Double that number for good measure. Company is coming… reclean the guest room and put fresh linens on the bed. (Did I mention they are staying a month?)
Where is that darn maid when I need her?!
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PS – I say we all meet at Cheryl’s house tonight and “help” her make bourbon balls!
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i hate cooking and baking, so i hear you on this.
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i think my real least favorite part, though, is trying to figure out what to get for niel for christmas. (not an issue this year, but normally it is…)
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The shopping. I hate the shopping. (Except for my kids, because shopping for toys and cute kids’ clothes is the only kind of shopping I like.)
We should trade duties. I’ll bake for you — that’s my favorite part — and you shop for me. We would make beautiful music together.
(Watch out for a thaw up here next week. You know if it’s above 30, Minnesotans break out the t-shirts.)
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It wouldn’t be Christmas around here without the baking and the candy making. For me, that is a joy but I always wish I did more.
Hate? Waiting until the last minute to wrap gifts. It seems like no matter how hard I try, there is always something that has to be wrapped on Christmas Eve. I would much rather meet my Hero under the Christmas tree
than trying to get his help wrapping the last of the kids’ presents.
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I don’t like the baking part either, so I don’t do it. I know I am a baking scrooge.
I realize I am WAY late here, but I don’t care.
The only thing I hate about this time of year is the arrangements of who is coming over and when, and where we are spending such and such a holiday. I hate it. I hate having to worry about who’s going to be ticked off that we are spending the holidays without them, and I honestly hate having house guests during the holidays. That must sound awful, but I really hate it. There’s already so much going on, I really don’t want extra house guests that will add to the madness.
Bah humbug.
Everything else I LOVE.
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