Our outdoors Christmas lights are

Our outdoors Christmas lights are now officially powered through the outlet I installed. I'm da man! Actually I still need to add the faceplate, but that's trivial. I also need a better pair of pliers and some serious power tools, but that's another story.

We've made another batch of cookies last night. We had Archie, Jessica, Margaret and David over last night to help us set-up the Christmas tree and decorate cookies. I made gingerbread cookies from my cousin's recipe (they don't contain ginger and the recipe was very vague about how much spice to put into them). They turned out OK, although I think that the taste is acquired. I just now got my mom's recipe which is similar, but also includes rum, so you KNOW it's gotta be better. After we backed the cookies, we decorated them with sugar icing. It's difficult coming up with original designs for tens of gingerbread people (there's nothing wrong with a gingerbread person wearing a two-piece bikini, right?) but they all turned out quite pretty. So I have at least one more cookie recipe I want to make and then, if we run out of cookies due to all the parties we're taking them to, we may make second rounds - I definitely want to make mom's gingerbread cookies for Christmas.