Cookies and blessings

I'm gearing up for major cookie baking with the kids.  Do you have any advice for me--those of you who bake varieties of cookies each year to give away as gifts?  Do you make the varieties of dough, and then freeze, and when you're ready to send them out, you start the actual baking?  Or do you do it all in the same couple of days?  I'm thinking it would be too time consuming to do it all at once, given my kids' ages.

Blessings for Saturday:

- I was single-minded yesterday and got caught up on laundry.

- I've been hanging our day-wear clothes straight from the dryer for some time, and now I've learned to fold all other things immediately too, instead of putting them in baskets to fold later (they rarely get folded if I wait).  We now live with less laundry clutter in the living room, and that's a real blessing!

-  My Beth is still nursing a lot.  She's too distracted to do it when it isn't nap or bedtime, but between her two naps, before bed, and during the night, she's still taking in quite a bit of milk.  I have no interest in weaning her.  When she weans herself, I know I'll experience a deep sadness.  I didn't want that vasectomy--it was more something I had to accept.  So, when Beth weans, the real mourning will start.  I am already praying that God softens it for me.  Babies are such a blessing to me!

-  Beth and Mary are currently very cuddly, sweet girls.  Mary often tells me she loves me.  What nourishment for the soul!

-  Beth says "Mama" now.  She lifts her arms to be picked up as she says it, so I'm pretty sure it's a meaningful word for her.

-  Thanksgiving leftovers--served last night--were delicious!

-  I correctly installed the Google Analytics tracking code into my new blog's html!  This time, it wasn't an angst-filled process.

-  Full sun has arrived and it's beautiful today.

-  We're out of a lot of things right now, and waiting on an unemployment disbursement so we can get to the store.  While it's difficult--especially being out of printer ink and needing to send resumes--we're surviving and the fact that God always provides is settling even deeper into our hearts and consciousness.  When the job loss first occurred, we could have hyperventilated--the fear was that strong!  Now, if it ever happens again, there would be dread, but not fear.