baking

…and all through the house you could smell cookies, 4 different kinds!

I got my domesticity on today. This is the first year I have really felt up to taking on such a daunting task. When I was working, and when Solvei and Nels were small, I never had enough time, energy or patience to make Christmas cookies. But painting Christmas cookies is one of the fond memories I have from when I was a kid, and I want my kids to have lots of memories like those. Saedi helped me make Great Grandma’s Christmas treats. She loves helping in the kitchen, and tells me so every time I let her. I made Nate’s favorite cookies, peanut-butter chocolate-chip. Saedi, Gavin and I made and painted sugar cookies. And I made chocolate sugar cookie batter but that will have to bake tomorrow (ran out of time). So now my house smells delicious!

I even have dough made to make cinnamon rolls in the morning (mmmmm, yummy!) and ambitions to make a pumpkin roll for dessert, we’ll see if there is time for that though.