Last year I made Christmas cookies for the first time (here's a link to that post, in case you’re interested). It was so much fun, I’ve decided that we should do it every year! I’m sorry to say that, for this year at least, I’m not continuing the “guess the cookie shape” part of the tradition. I couldn’t think of what else to do besides another nativity (I did think about doing Washington Crossing the Delaware, but after hand cutting a lot of gingerbread men I started to wane in creativity and focused on getting the cookies done). I did do a few non-traditional gingerbread men, including the yoga cookie, pictured above, and a reclining Venus.
Susanna was much more involved this year than last, which was fun. This involvement included licking about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cookies I intended to give to our neighbors. Some of our plates look pretty skimpy because of the resulting shortage of cookies, but we both had fun and she had a lot of chocolate chips, so in the end things went really well. And we probably have more plates of cookies than we’ll get to delivering anyway (sorry neighbor, if you don’t get one, it’s probably getting stale on my kitchen counter).
Is it bad that, when my daughter was sucking on a knife, instead of taking the knife away, I ran for the camera?
