Baking cookies

Many families have traditions when it comes to baking Christmas cookies. Growing up I remember doing thousands of cookies with my mom and delivering them to all the shut-ins in the church. As those lovely old men and women died, so did the hords of cookies. We would always bake some, but it was never the same.
This year Jeremy wanted to learn and so I said would teach him. We would start our own tradition. I was excited to use my new Pampered Chef Cookie Press, and cookie sheets, and so we went out it, making 21 dozen cookies. Jeremy stated about 1/3 of the way through that he was not having as much fun as he thought he would and realized that making cookies was not nearly as fun as eating the cookies. He was good at it, but insisted on following the recipe instead of listening to my little tricks that I knew would make the cookies better, and make the process easier. He learned I am right. We had fun and I am sure will do it again, but this was not the highlight of the evening.
Perhaps my favorite part of baking is cookies is watching people eat them. Jeremy loves my cooking and baking and I love watching him eat my cookies, and sneak them when he things I am not looking. I always pretend to be mad, like the cookies are for something special, and even if they are, I always make enough for him to have his fill. This year I had two who were sneaking cookies. The first cookie Lily snuck was sitting on the edge of counter and she reached up and said "mmm yummy". This was to cute to take the cookie away so I let her eat it as she went on and on saying "yummy mommy, yummy mommy". As the night went on however I noticed her crawling on to the chairs by the dining room table and grabbing another cookie, always one with sprinkles or m&ms and always saying , "ohh yummy mommy". At some point we needed to put an end to this ,but it gave me such joy to see her enjoying them as I began to imagine the future and present Christmas memories out little simple family has and will have. Lily was wound up from the cookies, and stayed up way past her bed time, but I would not have traded it for anything. I love her, and I love jeremy, and I love Moses, who through all of this was being teased by Lily who is normally more then willing to share anything with him, but would not give him one bite of the cookies I made.