I can officially say that I am done baking Christmas cookies! I think we made 16 kinds this year! The tradition started many years back with my Aunt Sue and my mom. I think I was in middle school or high school at the time. My Aunt would come over and her and my mom would bake all day long and end up with about 10 kinds. We have since added to our tradional favorites! It was so festive to come home from school and have Christmas music playing, see many kinds of cookies made, and smell the ones baking in the oven. My Aunt lives in Detroit so the tradition of her and my mom getting together has faded, but now I can help carry on the tradition! I am hoping as my girls get older they will have a desire to join in the fun. Since my aunt and grandma live so far away, when we get together for Christmas we have a cookie exchange. We each make 1 dozen cookies for each person and then we trade. It is fun to see what everyone decides to make every year! I will always remember sitting down every year to decorate the cut-out cookies and turning on Evie's "Come on ring those bells". This year we were decorating and the song came on the radio! Yes, cheesy I know, but fun to reminise about the fun memories. I really enjoy baking all the different kinds of cookies and handing them out to our neighbors. It is a great way to connect with them. I have been looking forward to doing that tonight, but as I think about bundling up the kids and walking in the cold, my heart is not in it. It is out of my comfort zone to sing some carols for people we hardly know! I pray that the Lord will fill my heart with love and a desire so share His goodness with the people He has put around us.
We are trying to teach Adrianna about giving and hopefully when we hand out the cookies, she will see the joy on our neighbor's faces and realize it is fun to give to others! She helped me make the cookie trays this year and she was so excited!
Shawn has recently taken on the tradition of making the Holly Wreaths. Some years, they are huge blobs, last year they actually were wreaths, and this year they are blobs again. I think that is because Adrianna helped this year! It was so cute to see her try and resist licking her fingers and not getting green food coloring all over her clothes! She had fun putting on the red hots. (and yes, she did wash her hands!) Eliza just watched while eating her puffs! She can help next year!
Here are some cute pics of Shawn and
Adrianna bonding in the kit
chen.
Adrianna bonding in the kit
chen.
2 comments:
A mother can only hope and pray that the things she does for her children will be remembered and maybe done again for the next generation. How blessed I am to have a daughter like you! Thank you for reminding me of those times, and for reafirming in my mind that I did do some things right!
I had a good time...even if they were blobs.
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