My First Giveaway!

I started this blog to promote Mac & Fitz, my clothing company for little kids.  

It sounded like a good idea to chronicle the process of starting a business, 

making the goods, the successes and failures.  

Well, life butted in, like it usually does, and all my sewing time is now spent in a factory with 25 dirty men, processing invoices, figuring out worker's comp claims and wiping the filth off of the break room tables.  

Sounds glamorous, huh?

When that day arrives, and, God help me, it better be soon, that Tom fires me from my job as "Mrs. Wiggins" so I may stay home and eat bon bons for the first time in my entire life,

(if any of you stay at home moms eat bon bons, speak up.....

...hmmm all I hear are crickets...)  

then the sewing machine will be dusted off. Mac & Fitz will return!  

I sure miss it...going to a fabric store is like going into a candy store for me, 

except that I don't get a large butt there.

Unless I toss in an Almond Joy at the check out....

Anyway, since I can't share the mishaps and victories of Mac & Fitz for now, the blog has turned into a lot of whatever... you know, the everyday stuff we all deal with.  

I loved Erma Bombeck and her take on family life.  She made the mundane seem funny 

and we could all relate to her musings.  

My favorite quote is,  

"I childproofed the house, and they still get in!"

So, my friends, today, let's muse about Christmas cookies... 

Those two words conjure up so many memories for me and I'll bet they do for you, too.  I remember helping my mother and my grandmother make their special selections of cookies each year, from scratch, of course.  

My grandmother had a Norwegian background, so she made Fattigmanns Bakkels, lovely, fried with lard cookies, dusted in powdered sugar, and rosettes,which are fried, too.  They were awesome.  

My mother made spritz cookies in all sorts of shapes.  The dough was fragrant with almond and she colored the tree shapes green.  My job was to sprinkle the red sugar or silver dragees on top.  

Then we made the infamous cornflake wreaths with green marshmallows melted in 

and decorated with red hots.  

What a sticky mess!  

They had to dry in the basement for two days before we could dig in and it was torture to not go down there and sneak a few....which we did anyway...

Mom also made the chocolate and vanilla pinwheels in perfect rounds.  So tasty!  

I loved those years we would get flour up to our elbows and bake dozens of cookies.  She had and now I have a cool wooden cookie holder shaped like a christmas tree to display the various cookies on three tiers.  Christmas has arrived when we get it out.  

More recently, my sister in law contributes her buckeye candy that she makes.  They are deadly.  I can throw down four of them and a glass of milk before I know what hit me.   

SO.... the title today is my first giveaway.  I never win anything but I did win a reusable lunch bag a few months back and it was so exciting!  It was to me, anyway..

Most bloggers have giveaways to increase their audience and to get feedback.  

So shameless and exactly the reason I am doing it... 

Besides the same five or so loyal friends who "like" my blog posts on Facebook or who make a comment and oh, how I LOVE you!!!, it's pretty quiet out there.  

Have you been reading my blog all along, or are you a new reader?  

Any thoughts out there...Buhler....Buhler?

I'd love to hear from you.  So I am going to lure you into talking to me with a giveaway contest.  

I had to do it before the silence of 0 comments was too deafening.  

Heck, it this goes well, I may even do ANOTHER giveaway!

Echo, echo, echo........  

Isn't this yellow felt pin from my new friend, Sherri of Belle Blossoms adorable?  

It would look so cute on your coat or pinned to your winter cap..

So, to win this sweet pin, comment and tell me your memories of Christmas cookies and what your favorite cookie is.  Recipes welcome!  

I am putting together my holiday cookie list as we speak.  Contest closes at midnight Friday....