Caroline has been begging to make sugar cookies for days on end and I’ve been waiting for the right time. That time being a day when I didn’t feel like my head would explode from the inevitable disaster in the form of colored sugars and flour all over my kitchen floor.
Yesterday was that day.
She rolled out the dough with the grace and precision of a monkey after too many shots of tequila.
Then, once we had an assortment of baked gingerbread men, Christmas trees and snowmen ranging in thickness from paper thin to won’t cook in the middle if world peace depended on it, we began to make some icing.
Green icing.
I’ll be honest. It’s not a shade of green you would find in nature. It was more like a shade of green you’d find in some sort of congealed salad that your Aunt Millie makes for Christmas lunch.
We spent the rest of the afternoon listening to Christmas music, enjoying a fire in the fireplace and using enough sprinkles to cause a possible sprinkle shortage throughout the United States.
Let’s just say that I’ll be picking red and green sprinkles off the bottom of my feet well past Easter.
But all our hard work totally paid off.
Oh baby. If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
By the way, I don’t know who bit the top of that green tree off and put it back on the plate.
Probably some crazy lady who thinks of JFK, Jr. every time she’s in Walmart.
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This was a scream! Love it!
I’m thinking of making cookies with our 2-year-old, but I’m not sure I can do it without a few shots of tequila myself….
I was drawn to this post as my 2 year old sings “C is for Cookie” constantly and I too braved the cooking making world with him yesterday.
You’re much stronger than I though as I only let him make molasses cookies with raisins for decorations.
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Those sure look yummy!
Cookie look great! You are to funny!
We had a cookie decorating party at our house last weekend. It was so much fun – but a total mess in the kitchen. A few pictures… http://themerrittsintx.blogspot.com/2008/12/cookie-decorating-party.html
I remember back to when my kids were younger and we’d make/decorate Christmas cookies. The kitchen would be such a mess, but the memories were priceless.
All together now…….. “that’s good enough for me.”
i have been making christmas sugar cookies with icing all my life…fortunately, i started young enough with my boys that they will still help because of the tradition…they are such a comfort food…
you get the prize… i am not as brave as you yet… i won’t make cookies WITH my kids. however, i am not ashamed to send them over to my bff’s house to make cookies.
You are a great Mom and they look delicious. Can’t forget the secret ingredient that goes into all of these projects, Love. You are the best!
So sweet!
Look at the smile on Caroline’s face…
priceless! She’ll always remember
the traditions and memories you are making with her.
My girls are old enough now (20 and 23) that they’re carrying on the Christmas cookie baking all by themselves! I must say, those early years of investing love pay off!
Merry Christmas!
Cookie-making supplies: $20
Maid to clean house after the cookie-making: $100
All the sprinkle-covered memories and the look on Caroline’s face: Priceless
You are a much better mom than I am. I wait until all my kids go to school before I start baking. The whole sugar cookie thing is enough to put me in the nut house.
But, I tell you, looking at that gorgeous, yummy plate of cookies makes me ALMOST want to try it with the girls. Almost.
Oh yes they do look wonderful! And how proud does the little baker look too?!
The cookies look great! We made reindeer cookies yesterday and some of our were more on the moose side of things! Merry Christmas!
TRIPLE LOVE IT!
: )
Awww, Caroline looks so sweet. I can totally relate on the mess with a little one. My little guy is very messy with cookies.
Since Caroline likes making cookies so much, I bet she would love doing a cookie exchange with her friends.
We did this last week, and had a blast. They didn’t last long and my girls woke up this morning asking to make more.
Caroline looks so intent rolling out that dough! Too cute! And the cookies look GREAT!!!
Merry Christmas
steph.
The cookies look great! I’m putting that task off until next week because those are the cookies we leave out for Santa and if I make them this week, I’ll have eaten them all by Christmas Eve.
In our family it is also a tradition passed on from my mom to us, now my sisters and I can’t have Christmas without decorated sugar cookies.
I wish I could be in school today when the kindergarten class makes gingerbread houses with their 3rd grade big buddies. Each child was to send in candy and I think we singlehandedly sent in enough for all classes combined. I’m thinking Emma will be on a sugar high when she comes home today!
They look wonderful. I’m really getting antsy to make some of my own, but I’m a bit reluctant with my whole diet thing. Maybe…just maybe, though…
Cookies look great! I know Caroline will look back at this time with love and fond memeories. Treat your self to a pedicure for two reasons 1) you deserve it after baking cookies and 2) to get the sprinkles off the botton of your feet!
That is a beautiful plate of cookies if I ever saw one.
Love that plate of cookies!!!!
So pretty!! Is that Gulley’s recipe? That tree in the back appears to be covered in red hots, which makes me simultaneously excited and fearful.
Oh how I wish I was there to enjoy a cookie (but not the half eaten one)!! Those are great looking cookies and more importantly those are some great memories.
Really the end result is worth it…
I might need to re-read this before we bake our cookies next week. I decided to wait until school was out so it could be an a-l-l d-a-y l-o-n-g process. oh goody!
I can only imagine the conversation Caroline will be having with you when she’s old enough to read posts (and take interest?) like these. I hope you’re around to write about those conversations.
I meant to say `that I hope this BLOG is still around in a few years. Of course you’ll still be around!
It looks like y’all had a great time. We have the tools for the sugar cookie baking/decorating, we just haven’t started the process yet. I tortured myself with glittering pine cones a few weeks ago and I still haven’t recovered. Maybe we’ll wait until Christmas Eve when I’m in the spirit of all things Christmas!
It’s called taste testing and its your responsibility to do that before serving such an item to your family.
See? I’m good at rationalizing.
Great laugh! I want to go home right now, pick up my son and go home and make a mess.
They look wonderful. Kudos to you and Caroline both. I can’t help but wonder, however, how many of those pictured have already been licked via the Halloween sugar cookies.
Is it you that loves a Peppermint Mocha Twist from Starbucks? I had my first cup today… MMMMMMM delish
Those cookies are perfect!!
I’m trying to muster up the courage to have a baking day with my wee ones…maybe next week…
Anyways, you are hilarious! You always make my mornings brighter!
Love you,
Marilena
amen on the “disaster” part. I’m about to head into that unknown land this morning and I’m a little nervous with my 4 year old (and 2 year old!!!)
I love her sweet little jumper! I can’t wait to have a girl! She is just precious!
They look so yummy!
The cookie plate is so cute!
I don’t understand the JFK, Jr. reference, but be sure that now, I’ll too be thinking of him when I go to Walmart. And the randomness of it all will be your fault.
Maybe next year you can get your sugar cookie from Rao’s and save the mess.
NO, don’t do that. One of my favorite memory is making sugar cookies. And I think mom was still cleaning it up a year later.
oooh-fah. I’m working up to the cookie thing. I don’t “do” baking, but have to let the girls have the experience, right? Buy ingredients – check. Buy sprinkles – check. Buy cookie cutters since all of ours are in the playdough box – check. Muster the energy, sanity, and patience to bake with the girls – I’m working on it!
I dread the whole sugar cookie baking fiasco too. But I usually feel warm and tingly when it’s over. Your plate of cookies is beautiful.
Just read your Wal-Mart/Target post. LOVE it.
Looks like fun! BTW, I love here table set where is it from? Lael is in need of a new one, her Dora table has seen the end of it’s life.
All I can tell you is, the teenage years are coming and she’ll just be wanting to eat them while YOU do all the work. I mean, the mall will be callin. So enjoy. Even the mess.
Fantastic!! the ylook so yummy!! Here’s a sugar cookie making tip – you do this at Nana’s house. Everyone thinks the children are beyond adorable and “oh, isn’t it precious when she dumps the whole entire dottle of red sparkle sugar on the cookie?!”. And then it’s Nana who gets to pick snowflake sprinkles out of the grooves in the wood floor til Easter. That’s my favorite method for sugar cookie making! Learned from experience! Happy munching!
“She rolled out the dough with the grace and precision of a monkey after too many shots of tequila” is without a doubt the best sentence I’ve read in…well, a long time.
You are a brave, brave woman. I don’t think I’ve EVER made cookies with a child AND decorated cookies with a child all in the same day. One or the other is about all my nerves can handle.
I have three monkeys so I make it a two-day project if we do it at all.
Oh, you are a brave woman. I haven’t had the nerve to start the sugar cookie thing yet. (Or the artistic skill, but that’s beside the point.)
I made Puppy Chow with Chex the other day. Does that count as Creative Christmas goodies? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
OK 10 years ago (two months after my mom passed away…very unexpectdly) my daughter, her husband and their 2 babies moved back to our area. My grandson was 2 and his sister was 4 months. My daughter is a teacher and I was blessed to provide childcare to these precious children…I also felt like I needed to be Grandma Martha Stewart on steriods….soooo I put the baby in the high chair…the 2 year on on the table and we made cutout sugar cookies….while I VIDEO TAPED!!! What was I thinking???? When I look back on that now I wish I would have thought about having a couple of shots….
Oh and by the way when I ran the sweeper yester after moving some furniture for Christmas decorating…..guess what I found…Easter Grass…YUP..Green plastic
Easter Grass….
Yesterday was that day for me too.
24 dozens later I never want to see another cookie, let alone eat one. Sprinkles will not haunt our floors til next year because our 2 new puppies licked the floor spotless (along with the bottoms of my bare feet…which were covered in green and red sprinkles)
I love it!
My favorite line was “She rolled out the dough with the grace and precision of a monkey after too many shots of tequila.”. Made me laugh!
I, too, am trying to get the motivation to get my Christmas baking done. However, my almost two year old isn’t quite to that extremely helpful stage yet, more in the “under-foot-pleading-”Mommy-hold-you”" stage. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can get it done!!
Just have to say – LOVE IT!!! The last two posts brings me back to my younger years. I also grew up when Walmart had not yet taken over the world… and am now a Target lover.
My 5 year old and I have NOT started our sugar cookies but the store bought dough is already in the fridge.
Have a good Christmas and thanks for a look into your world!
you are a great mom!!! thanks for sharing your cookie adventure with amazing humor…my kids would be so grateful if i used such humor in the midst of their help cooking!!
The cookies look great! We haven’t gotten around to making them yet.
The cookies are gorgeous but more so the fact that you spent time and risked a mess in order to make memories with your daughter. What an awesome mom you are!
Those cookies are just PERFECT! And that gorgeous beaming smile says it all.
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You’re making great memories here and that’s well worth any mess.
I just love it when the kids help to make and decorate the cookies, but did you know that tequila and sugar cookies don’t go at all well together?
Don’t ask.
They look awesome, now I have to make mine, I’ve been putting it off as well, I have Friday off from work and they say we are going to have a snow storm here in upstate New York so it will be a perfect day to bake!
Caroline is such a cutie!!! I enjoyed making cookies with my sweet boy last night too =)
Did I tell you I think the same thing about GEORGE? I meant to. So there is another mind that treks with yours…scary, I know.
And I did have a Granma Millie, who made concealed salad just that color. OH.THE.MEMORIES!
Wish I had a sugar cookie!
God Bless You, friend!
The cookies look great. I’m trying to plan when I will be engaging in that particular form of torture with my children. I’m thinking Saturday morning is good. Because there’s nothing like spending a morning pretending to be having fun decorating cookies with small kids and then going to the in-laws. I like to bundle all the greatness in one day. And it is amazing what frosting can do for a sugar cookie.
Oh, the monkey/tequila comment had me laughing for a full minute. And then when I looked back to continue reading, I laughed all over again. I was primed for it with the “piece of poo” comment. Great post!
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