Thankfully I am over the car drama stressing thanks to my therapeutic cinnamon roll baking and my ever fluctuating hormone levels. Once again I am making about 7 pans of Oowey, gooey, heaven in a pan, cinnamon rolls with this online recipe.

If you love cinnamon rolls you have got to try the recipe, trust me! It is easy and pretty basic as far as ingredients go. Go forth and bake rolls, you will not be sorry.

Oh and don’t worry I wont be eating all 7 pans of rolls myself, that would be insane. I would slip in to a diabetic coma and Tater Tot would be bouncing off my uterus walls!

N is taking some pans to work and we are giving some to our neighbors to spread holiday cheer and all that jazz. Plus, I am keeping some for us to throw in to the oven on Christmas morning. Mmmm!

On Christmas Eve (today) we are going to be baking all sorts of cookies. Sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies and a few other fun ones are the goal. N is also working both today and on Christmas Day, he has to be in @ 2pm all week.

He does however have a 4 day weekend as a result, he’ll be enjoying his big present all 4 day I am sure!

I am pleased that I have zero wrapping to do tonight (got it all done in advance, yay!) but I still have N’s stocking to stuff and put out. When he gets off work @ 11pm we’ll have hot coco and cookies, you know try to spend some quality time together. I also want to get to bed at a reasonable time so we can wake up and enjoy Christmas Morning before he has to push off to work that afternoon.

What is your Christmas Eve looking like? Are you like my mom with a closet full of shopping bags that all need to be wrapped on Christmas Eve? What is your Christmas Eve tradition?

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In other news our holiday kitchen madness has ended! We spent much of 12/22/07 making fudge, orange ham glaze, cinnamon raisin bread, rice crispy treats, chocolate dipped pretzels, English toffee, oatmeal raisin cookie mix, rustic soup mix and much more! We were canning, packaging and wrapping like crazy till about 2 am!

We made up lots of good treats to give away to family and we had some fun too! I think the baking and crafting that we do every year for family is a nice tradition that allows us to spend quality time together while making some gifts from the heart for those we love.

We actually had some crazy times during it all too! My doggie and I danced to holiday music and I made a pretty major typo on a recipe label for N’s soup mix and didn’t notice it till he read it out loud, then we both were overcome with the giggles and spend about 5 minutes laughing hysterically about it.

Here are some photos of the gooey goodness we were slaving away (lol) to make, don’t get too hungry or drool all over your keyboard!

Well, I hope you all are having an enjoyable x-mas eve! I would love to hear about your preparations for the holiday. Did you bond with someone or have a good laugh today?

Well, take care and get to sleep before Santa comes!

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