normally, we bust out the old Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook, and make some of the standards -- Russian Tea Cakes/Mexican Wedding Cakes, Chocolate Crinkles, Raspberry Thimble Cookies, plus Pecan tarts, and maybe a peanut brittle, or creme de menthe bars. then we give a ton of them out to folks. trying to have a "healthy" holiday, so we may skip the whole cookie train this year.

[smiley face beginning to weep]