A Wintry, Easy Day

You know how the TV weather forecasters are, they like to play up the coming storm and make it sound all big and bad.  This wasn't our first snow of the season but the predictions were that it would be the biggest so far.

They began predicting this storm two days before it was supposed to get here.  At first the big snow was going to be farther north but as the storm got closer they began to move the predictions for the heaviest snow south. It went over us and then on south, but our area still was in for a lot of snow.

When it finally arrived it was a lot - the predictions were pretty close to what actually showed up.  This morning, as I was getting up and ready for some early church meetings the bishopric called and said to hold off, meetings were probably going to be cancelled.

A short time later they called back to say they definitely were cancelling church.  It makes sense.  While we live close enough that we usually have no serious trouble getting to church, even on bad roads, there are many ward members that live out a ways, bad roads are a big deal for them.  If you decide to hold church despite bad weather and roads you end up with a lot of people missing.  When its speakers and teachers that can be an issue.  So they called it and we got to stay home while the snow continued to fall.  Unless we have a pretty warm spell in the next two weeks we're pretty certain to have a white Christmas.  Nice.

What to do, what to do?  We're not ones to do a lot of Christmas baking but this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do a little.  Besides, I had a new recipe I wanted to try.  These are supposed to be super good, really delicious sugar cookies.  And since sugar cookies are probably my most favorite kind of cookie I have been wanting to try them.

So today was the day.  The recipe called for over five cups of flour so I thought it would probably make a lot without doubling it.  Anyway, who needs all those cookies laying around, tempting you, right?  So I just made a single batch.

And they did turn out really good.  We ended up with about four dozen really yummy cookies.  Normally I prefer my sugar cookies frosted but these are really good, even without frosting.  Now, what to do with them?