Tonight was our annual cookie making get together. It is wonderful to have my nephews, their children and my daughter, her husband, Michael, my grandchildren all together for the holidays for a small gathering for the kids.. My cousins were also here for the festivities.
Although it is a night for the children, the adults have come to love the chill time with family.
This year I made life simple. I purchased sugar cookies. The children enjoyed placing them on the cookie trays and claiming which ones would be theirs after baking. After baking and cooling, they “iced” the cookies again with purchased canned vanilla icing.
Then the fun part…the decorating. They used various colored sprinkles, sugars and coated candies. From previous years I learned this could get quite messy, so I used shirt boxes to place the cookies in for decorating. Worked wonderfully. Only very few sprinkles escaped.
Then the best part, eating the cookies before having pizza and some play time
This year one cookie Baker was missed. He was feeling under the weather. No worries, there is always next year.
Another tradition for years to come.