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This was one full day of house cleaning, baking and entertaining family.  We made a plan for Christmas brunch at church and then for Christmas dinner with family.  Everyone has their assignment. 

Emmy and I spent the afternoon baking some cookies from the ENORMOUS batch of dough we made.  We still have more and the kids are going to make GINORMOUS teddy bear cookies tomorrow and decorate them themselves. 

If you want to see what we did today you can check out our Flickr link - BAKING COOKIES.  Enjoy!!!

Now, for those interested in knowing what we did on the stained glass cookies - you can use a basic sugar cookie recipe of your choice.  Then all you do is cut shapes and then make a hole in the center in whatever fashion you like.  Get a bag of assorted colors of hard candy and break it up in a ziplock bag with a rubber mallet or the flat side of a meat tenderizer.  Then you just sprinkle the variety of colored candy bits into the hole in the cookie on the cookie sheet and bake as the recipe calls for.  Let them cool on the tray - I would recommend that you use parchment paper or a Silpat on the cookie sheet to keep from sticking.  They turn out beautifully as you will see at the link above - I showed one with light coming through - MAGNIFICENT!!!

Blessings!!!