Okay we had to stick with
our Christmas Eve tradition and make Homemade Iced Christmas Cutout
Cookies. The kids have always enjoyed
this or at least acted like they enjoy it.
We broke from tradition slightly this year, the cookies are from scratch
because that is what this whole adventure was about – cookies from
scratch.
We searched a bit this morning for
the right recipe and settled in on one that had over 5000 reviews and the title
“The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies”– we figured we’d be okay. John prepared the dough and, just to keep our
math skills sharp, he reduced the quantities by 25% (he and Logan confirmed the
accuracy). I was the official dough
roller (using Grandma R’s rolling pin).
The rolling pin is great, the roller (Beth) wasn’t getting them thin
enough. There is a balance there between
getting them too thin which results in burning and breaking to too thick, but
most of ours are a bit thick.
Regardless, they turned our
great and after a few scuffles, the creativity started flowing and we ended up
with some really fun designs (at least by our standards!).
It was a cold, rainy day,
but the elves were out and about. We delivered
two dozen cookies and half of a chocolate cake to the Charlotte Rescue
Mission. We saw an article last year
asking for homemade treats for their Christmas meal and decided to take some
down. Today was our second time, so we
hope a tradition is starting. For more
info on the good work of the Mission visit, http://charlotterescuemission.org
We had a few extra cookies
in the car (after 24 days and hundreds of cookies, they seem to be with us all
the time!), so on the way home, we stopped at Hospitality House of
Charlotte. The HH provides shelter for
out-of-town families while their loved ones receive treatment at nearby
hospitals, so they could certainly use some Cookie Joy. For more info, visit http://hospitalityhouseofcharlotte.org/Default.asp
Finally, we ended the night
out our Christmas Eve service at SPCC and shared some of today’s batch with JT
and Zeb and hopefully some of the other kids at church.
Tomorrow will clearly be
anti-climactic after today’s efforts, but it’s Day 25 so we will bake cookies
one more time. Sleep good.
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