Making cookies or making a mess...

you decide!!

We've been baking lots lately...there are at least 4 different kinds in the freezer already and today we made 3 more. Tomorrow I will be making the Peanut blossoms (peanut butter cookies with the kiss on top) with Lionel, and my Gramma's awesome Scottish Shortbread with Sweet-Pea. Both kids are great helpers which makes the work go by so much quicker.

Below is Sweet-Pea working on the sugar cookies we'll be decorating tomorrow - a tradition we enjoy every year! We set up our dining room table like a big factory. The cookies are all on a tray and the frosting, sprinkles and other various decorating items are all laid out. We sit down, listen to Christmas music and decorate all afternoon. It's a blast!


Lionel is working on chocolate crinkles....yummy! He did a great job!! (Notice his 'unsocialized homeschooler' t-shirt. hee hee) These cookies went in the fridge for the night. They will be cooked in the morning and I'm sure the house will smell heavenly!


He wasn't crazy about me taking his photo, but I made him laugh and got a few good shots.


After the sugar cookies were all rolled out, cut and baked, Sweet-Pea played with the dough scraps a while. Good idea? Perhaps...but she made a HUGE mess!


The aftermath!


"Oops! Did I do that?!?"

Notice the change in pants...the black ones were completely covered with flour!!

You know, the big messes were worth it. She had a great time and I got some photos of her having fun. This has been a difficult year for us all...the fun times were very few and far between, so we take them when we can get them!!! Things are definitely getting better though. School has been put on the back burner for the month of December so we can concentrate on the true meaning of Christmas while also creating some fun family memories together. We jump back into our school routine again on January 5th (Monday). Woo hoo!