Eid is around the corner–December 30 this year–and S is nearly giddy with all the gifts she plans on giving to our nephews and nieces. Which is unfair really–she’ll get ahead as aunti while I’ll be forgotten beneath discarded wrapping paper.
Actually since last Eid ul adha (a whole year ago!), I’ve been planning on making cookies and wrapping them up in oval tin boxes. It seemed so brilliant then, so knew! And if Eid had fallen during my school vacation last year, I would have done it. Now, the idea seem rather stale: both sisters talked this week of baking cookies with the girls. The girls new baking set, courtsey of their school, would just make it more fun. Bah! Spoilers, all of them!
But now what? Do I go through the trouble of baking cookies with the kids, because they’ll have more fun that way, or do I just make the batch of cookies myself to give to my three siblings’ families? My poor little nephew’ll need gluten free, milk free, egg free, nut free, and wheat free cookies. Hopefully the camera will work too… and the kids won’t open and start eating the cookies the day of Eid, because then all the mess will be mine for the cleaning!
