{"id":12524,"date":"2022-12-07T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2022-12-07T04:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T09:40:37","slug":"12524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12524","title":{"rendered":"virtual advent tour 2022: day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VAT2022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VAT2022.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual Advent Tour 2022\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VAT2022.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VAT2022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/VAT2022-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the end of the first week of December, which probably means that those of us who are hoping to get things mailed should start hopping to it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it&#8217;s one of the Advent days I look forward to most in D.C. &#8212; the <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s Food section releases their new Christmas cookie recipes for the year!<\/p>\n<p>We grew up making Christmas cookies &#8212; and eating those family and friends made every year. Like most people, I have cookies I associate with the holidays, even if there&#8217;s nothing stopping me from making them any other time of the year. Peanut butter blossoms, for instance. And spritz cookies if you make them in non-Christmassy shapes. But in my brain they&#8217;re seasonal cookies. <\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50813196331\/in\/photolist-2kqbUXV-5z17aU-24QtsUx-2ehkqMe-NrQXxc-2dqVNyn-2kv6hXa-aG7ooz-ZXMDEs-By2M2F-21toDcw-2eL7u6X-5yVNDc-2b6S1w2-21ULKgN-K2CVEK-YuHdcE-aGBKGM-2jtfokj-5UUYPF\" title=\"Christmas Cookies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50813196331_5395f16c52_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Christmas Cookies\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because most of our Christmas recipes are beloved hand-me-downs from family and dear friends, I don&#8217;t often add new recipes to the repertoire. But I love to peruse newspaper food sections and baking books and foodie blogs and bookmark recipes and imagine Someday and What If? <\/p>\n<p>But this year, with no day job to get in my way and with pre-holiday plans few and far between, I&#8217;m thinking, Maybe This Year and What&#8217;s Stopping Me? After all, many of those beloved family recipes would have come from women&#8217;s magazines. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got cookie cutters I&#8217;ve never used and a bunch of decorations I bought in 2020 when the pandemic meant we did Christmas on our own for the first time ever. That year, I needed the traditional recipes. But this year, I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time to add in some new things, as a metaphor for what I&#8217;m looking for in the other aspects of my life. There&#8217;s at least four pounds of sugar, five pounds of flour, and two pounds of butter in my kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ready! 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