Cookie Traditions

~ humoringthegoddess

 


Cookie Mania has hit the snowy Midwest!

Saturday was make-cookies-with-the-grandkids day. My mere two cookie contributions — kolackies and oatmeal raisin — were but a drop in the baking bucket for future Christmas parties.

Actually only a couple of grandkids contributed time and energy, but there was enough assistance to give granny a break between cookie sheets.

Sometimes it’s hard to really get into the Christmas spirit. Like I said in a previous blog, Christmas Again?, it’s not always easy to get into the Christmas spirit. Energy and social security and other excuses often put a damper on my Deck the Halls nature.

But baking cookies with someone else makes all the scroogeness disappear … not to mention how I love eating the results.

We always bake the weekend before Christmas. It’s sort of a tradition. As is wrapping presents on Christmas Eve late at night for the next day. We add boiled shrimp and a glass of wine to our routine, and even though the wrapping date has changed through the years, we still try and keep the tradition we started when our kids were babies and we worked all day Christmas Eve.

I think you can make a tradition out of anything you do more than once. As long as there’s heart and togetherness mixed in with whatever you’re doing, you’re creating a safe place for laughs and love year after year.

And as you get older that becomes more and more important. 

Do you have any traditions you try and keep with family and/or friends? 

If so, Share! Share!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I am a writer of fantasy fiction that often surrounds middle-aged women. I am a married mother of two and granny to three, a BoHo Chic kinda gal. I am recently retired and busier than when I worked 9-5. But writing and blogging is my main game.

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  4. There are so many traditions/routines that I loved as a child and long for as an adult. For each holiday, we knew exactly where we were going, what we were going to eat, and who would be there, (short those who died during the previous year). My mother would bake dozens of Christmas cookie recipes, resulting in hundreds of cookies kept in rectangular, Tupperware containers. 😊. As hard as I tried to pass down the stories and recipes to our daughters, they had/have no interest. I’ve observed and often stated, that tradition is diluted by each generation. Sadly, I’ve seen that to where our daughters have no Polish heritage to celebrate. 😞🇵🇱

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    1. My hubby and I are Polish too (half full on both sides) and I’m afraid my parents didn’t give me any traditions to pass down. Except for maybe serving polish sausage at the Christmas table. I hope that the few traditions we have move on through life through my son. Maybe you could make a mini version of your tradition — instead of hundreds of cookies maybe you could make one batch and find some old tuperware containers to store them in! (I’m sure I have a few oldies around here still!)

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  5. Opening the door at midnight as the Solstice begins to let the old year out and the new year in. Baking Jule Kaka Christmas bread before the holiday and baking extra loaves to send to far flung relatives. Gathering on Christmas Eve to eat too many goodies, (a particular cheese ball must be involved) , exchange gifts and play games. Eating a piece of herring at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve for prosperity in the new year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. [christmas_tree.pnghttps://webmail.centurylink.net/app/ress/img/RTE/emoji/24/christmas_tree.png]

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