Every year, around the Holidays, the Erskine Lakes Women's Club organizes a Cookie Exchange.
The variety of cookies is dizzying and the number of cookies present at the same table at one time is astronomical. A friend recently did some math when I told him about the event. Every member must bring four dozen cookies to exchange and one dozen to share. That's 5 dozen cookies per person, times the number of participants.
This year we had 34 participants. 60 cookies X 34=2,040 cookies!
I had never thought about it like that. That's a HUGE number of cookies!
It was a cold night, we had a wood burning in fireplace, lots of cookies and a lot of good cheer.
Then, we come to the gift exchange part of the night. The tradition is that you bring a wrapped gift and get a number. When your number is called you may choose a gift from the table, or if you wish, take someone else's gift that had previously been picked and unwrapped by another participant. Each gift can be stolen twice. After that the gift is safe with the last person who chose it.
This made for a lot of laughs as members proceeded to "steal" gifts from other members. Mostly everyone went home happy. My gifts had been stolen from me FOUR times, until I finally ended up"stealing"(oh, yes, I do it too!) a nice mug from Jenn(sorry Jenn!)
After lots of sugar, camaraderie and laughs, the Erskine Lakes Women's Club took a group photo and went home to recover!.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
