And then there’s cookie baking.  When we talk homemade, we usually mean the kind that come in a tube and you slice and stick them on your cookie sheet and they conveniently come pre-decorated for whatever’s the current holiday.  But not this Christmas.  With all the extra time we have from not shopping for presents, we decided to bake tons of real cookies with all the kids helping.  Gulp.

It wasn’t really that bad.  We had a few minor errors…someone tried to cream butter and flour instead of butter and sugar and there was the one batch of chocolate peanut butter cookies that were a tad over done or charcoal briquettes you might say.  We listened to our favorite deeply spiritual Christmas music, the soundtrack from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.  Flour was flying and people said my name, 4,579 times. ( Yes, I did count.  One time years ago I turned around to my children and said, “no one is allowed to say my name again ever, do you understand?” I did say it cheerfully and didn’t yell.)  We all wore aprons which always make me feel like a real grown up and we now have tons of cookies and charcoal briquettes in the freezer ready for our night of caroling.

It was all quite lovely and I didn’t eat a single one.

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Posted by ktneis

How much fun, I know exactly what you are talking about when they use your name so many times you cannot stand it anymore. We baked this weekend as we had time. The last batch was dried out and hard as rocks, too many days in the fridge. What a fun time you guys had, I would have been laughing with you all and eating the cookies as they cooled. MMM Glad you could post pictures finally. See the blog is getting easier!! hehe

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Posted by my2kids4Him

Sounds like alot of fun! You are strong.....I would have to eat some (or alot) of those yummy looking cookies!
We're like you, homemade to use is the premade ones we slide on a cookie sheet and bake!

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Posted by Joanne

"It was all quite lovely and I didn’t eat a single one."

Aren't you supposed to test them out before you give them to the neighbors?
I have tested mine out. They are OK unless you eat 7 or 8 of them at a time. Then they kind of make you sick.

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Posted by momn4boys

I noticed the cool sprayer thingy on your sink. My first thought was Ooohhh that would be handy. My second thought was. Hmmm I wonder if there have been any water fights with that thing!

You really didn't eat any cookies!?!

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