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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