cookie monsters

One of my favorite Christmas traditions as a kid was making Christmas cookies.  I think it was one of my mom's least favorite traditions.  I'm not sure why she wasn't fond of three children in her kitchen with flour, icing, food coloring, and sprinkles.

I always looked forward to Christmas cookie day.  I would think about it at school and wait impatiently for the evening of decorating cookies.  I loved listening to Christmas music with my family and sneaking bites of cookie dough when my mom wasn't looking.  I enjoyed choosing brightly colored sprinkles to liven up the frosted sugar cookies with and during the clean up process, eat spoon fulls of leftover frosting. (Again, when my mom wasn't looking.)  When my siblings and I were teenagers, our favorite part of Christmas cookies was using a non Christmas themed cookie cutter like a duck to tease my mom with.  Christmas cookie night was always a happy day.

As an adult, I still love Christmas cookie time.  It is a sugary reminder that Christmas will soon be here. :)