Frenchie, Max Factor and Margaret Astor are (or, as I found out, in Astor's case were) a brand of decorative cosmeticsFrenchFlybebe wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:41 am trissie who are the Factor and Astor ? As for baking, this is last on my to-do list. I sometimes do bake, because I enjoy it, but it's not a French tradition. We won't see many people around Christmas, so that means we would have to eat what we bake : I'd rather not have sugarified kids inside (by ugly weather) and I don't want to eat too sugary, for my weight and also for my acne-prone skin. And also, how could we keep all the baked goodies safe during four weeks ?? I wonder how you manage. Or maybe you eat baked things during Advent weeks as well ?
Enjoy the photo shooting!
Re the cookies, families store them usually in cold out-of-the way places - and in many families, it's not allowed to "sample them" before Christmas day, when a shift happens between "don't eat it!" and "why don't you eat it?"
It's expected from (pre)school kids to have a good selection a week before Christmas as kids are asked to "bring a small box of Christmas cookies" to various school functions. I keep ours in the garage and I do allow kids to have some during advent, so we usually need two batches of everything. We survived both the photo shoot and the shopping. But boy, am I exhausted! A movie night and an early night. On the way to the photoshoot, the twins casually mentioned that there would be a school function tomorrow, so no full day of baking for me. Plans... are to be changed, right?
And this sat in an open tab and now it's after family movie night (Beethoven - yes, the early 1990's movie!) and I really am off to bed!
