It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Hello there!!

Where in the world does the time go in between my blog posts. Uggh, it annoys me to no end!

We are ready for Santa here in the Dodaj household. We have prepared a letter, have presents wrapped, have half a decorated tree (Brooke!!), and lots of lights up all around the house. It looks so pretty!

I'm ready to bake, I have a mock list for the grocery store and a cabinet ready to hold the goodies. I love this part about the holiday, baking kind of finishes the deal for me. I love driving to pass out the cookies sharing some holiday cheer.

I HAVE to mail my Mom's gifts out on Monday so they get to her in time, other than that just really enjoying my girls and the Christmas spirit.

I'm leaving you with my trademark Christmas cookie. Everyone LOVES these and I make hundreds of them.

Dirty Snowballs

1/2 cup p. sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup chocolate chips
extra powered sugar for rolling

cream butter, salt, vanilla and sugar together
add flour 1/2 cup at a time
finally add pecans and chocolate chips

refrigerate dough for 1 hour. If you want to do this ahead of time - wrap the dough in plastic wrap.

set oven to 325
roll teaspoon size balls and place on cookie sheet

bake 8 - 10 minutes. They do not turn golden brown. Touch to see if they have set. Immediately roll in p. sugar 4 times and place on cooling rack.

I store mine in air tight containers in about 1/2 inch of powered sugar.

Enjoy!!

I'll be back tomorrow with some handmade Christmas cards to share.