Christmas Cookies

I put off Christmas stuff until I was done with school, but I'm feeling OK with things after a few days of feeling behind. Todd got our our little tree and we put it up Sunday morning. (Though this morning, my DARLING children yanked it down, breaking three ornaments including a little snow globe I got from the Atlanta aquarium...I get ornaments from where we travel as our souvenir...so that was a hard one to loose though I fortunately had bought another from there, too). Did some Christmas shopping on Amazon for my VA family on Friday and got some other stuff done on Sunday at Walmart and with Tammy at Target on Monday. I even got my Christmas cards out yesterday after managing to take the photos and make the collage card before I was done with school

This morning, we went across the street to the Tsutsumitshus to make Christmas cookies, something we did last year, too. Christmas sugar cookies are kind of my tradition (and the photo cards, I think...btw I LOVE Christmas cards). It's been a crazy few days and I was feeling a but anxious and on top of that, my dough hadn't turned out as well as I like. Then I saw this... I helped Abbey frost a cookie and then she started eating eating it before we were even done! She finished Adam's too, after he just had a taste or two. The only time this morning she wasn't wild and crazy.

She had cut a few out and Adam loved that part the best. But this was clearly Abbey's favorite part! This is what I yearned for for many years when I wished for kids. Abbey's mess was my clarity.