One day about two weeks ago the UPS man left a very yummy, fun, and very cool Christmas gift on our front porch. It was a box from an online company called Cheryl's. (A cookie decorating kit.) It was a gift to us from Eric's cousin, Venus, and her son Nate. Inside the box were a lot of individually packaged sugar cookies, white and green icing, and lots of Christmas sprinkles. So, the next evening, after putting Silas to bed Eric and I decorated Christmas cookies with our girls.
This family activity went a lot better than I had anticipated... I anticipated icing and sprinkles all over the floor, covering little girl's hands and fingers, scattered on the counter tops.... but, both girls were into it and took their time, trying to make each cookie look cool. They each helped spread icing on the cookies, and with a little help from Daddy, sprinkled on the sprinkles.
We each enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate while we decorated the cookies.
These cookies tasted delicious! Thank you Venus and Nate for this thoughtful gift for our whole family.
Toward the end of the cookie decorating, Phoebe started to get a little fussy. We tried to ignore her and kept on decorating the last few cookies. Then we each sampled one.... In a matter of about two minutes when I realized that I hadn't heard a peep out of Phoebe, and she hadn't asked for a cookie to sample, she had laid her head down on the counter and had fallen fast asleep. Cookie decorating can really wear a little girl out!
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