December 26, 2008
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Christmas prep
We baked a million cookies!
This is my children & their cousins baking cookies. This is the first time Emilee & Lizzy have participated in our family tradition. It was Dylan’s first time too in a way.
We saved the iced sugar cookies for last, as they make the biggest mess.
I iced them and the kids sprinkled them.
Dylan was a bit confused.
Amazingly, my patience held for the whole day. Grace of God I tell ya!!
I really had a great time.
The next day, Darlene cam over to help me make some candy canes.
Damn Martha Stewart, she makes it look sooooo easy.
I think we mostly failed. There are sticks of flavored sugar, but nothing remotely pretty or even resembling a candy cane. And we tried it twice!! Go figure.
I don’t have any final pictures of the cookies, though every person on my team at work (11) got a goodie bag and I sent cookies the cousins baked home with them, then took another tray to them on Christmas eve. Darlene & I made up some refrigerator cookies that she baked the day before going home to DE. It was truly a cookie holiday to remember.
In the midst of it all, I really missed my mom, my nan-nan, my sisters, my aunt viki & my aunt ginny
A lot of memories came back to me throughout the last two weeks. I am glad I get to pass this tradition on to the next generation.
