Holiday Cookie Exchange Party

How many of you have been invited to a cookie exchange and declined because you are too busy to make the required cookies? (I'm guilty!) Rethink this, it's not as scary as it appears. As the host, give a few weeks notice, invite a few friends and neighbors over, ask them to bring maybe 3 dozen of one cookie,(adjust this according to the size of the group)and a large container to take home the offerings. Have holiday music playing in the background, spread a festive cloth on a table, serve some nibbles (or just more desserts) and beverages. Everyone will gather around the table to collect their cookies, they will receive the amount they brought. Even if some cookies are large, others are small, it will all even out in the end. Ask each to bring a copy of their recipe to pass out. We're all busy, but maybe this is just what some of us need in this busy time of the year? Allow ourselves to schedule this in order to make time with friends and neighbors. By making just one kind of cookie, we get to take home several dozen different kinds of cookies for the holidays. How many have been to one and who's planning one for this year?