General Stuff Pertaining to Christmas Cookies

Even though it seems that Thanksgiving just happened, and all of the relatives were just filling the house, Christmas is almost here.  And I know that the most stressful thing about the coming of Christmas Day (besides the house overflowing with cousins, grandparents, and who knows who) is the food.  Obviously.  That is a truth universally acknowledged (not to get all Jane Austen or anything, but it was a necessary reference).  And I know that in the category of food for Christmas the most important thing to me is the desserts.  And under desserts, cookies take a prominent place in our household.  We make at least four different kinds.  There are the sugar cookies (classic, but pretty high-maintenance), the light spice (a less intense molasses cookie), coconut orange snowballs (yummily flavored powdered-sugar balls), and peanut blossoms (peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss stuck delicately in the center) which are a personal favorite to bake and eat!  And several others, but these are the favorites.  Sometimes rolling out the dough for the sugar cookies can be a pain, and (if we decide to) decorating them with frosting can be tricky and takes a fair amount of time.  The snowballs and blossoms are are more manageable, but still have to be made (sometimes I brush aside the easier tasks for later and totally forget that even if they are simple, they actually need time set aside for their creation).  I think that cookies can be a beautiful dessert, and they are small-child friendly. I mean, who doesn't perk up when they hear the cookies are ready?