I love the roll call. I still have to print off the papers.
One thing I learned from last year is that compared to Sept. through Dec., August is relatively quiet around here. So, this year, I decided to start my Christmas baking preparations real early. (My children were chuckling when they found out what I was doing.) I've never done this before but I thought I'd give it a try and see how it works out.
I went to my Christmas cookie recipes and made up 4 dry mix batches for four different cookies. For example, if the sugar was to be mixed with the butter and then the flour, I put the sugar in a Ziploc sandwich bag and the flour mixture in another Ziploc sandwich bag. Then I gathered those two bags and put it into a larger Ziploc bag and labeled it. Basically, all the dry ingredients have been pre-measured. All I have to do is add the eggs, and butter, vegetable oil or shortening. It's like having the Betty Crocker Cookie Mixes.
In the past, I usually made up the cookie dough in the beginning of November and then froze it until we were ready to bake them. So I feel that I just saved some time at what is typically an extremely busy month for me.