Me & Mom Making Christmas Cookies

Mom and I worked ALL weekend making Christmas cookies. We had great visions of these wonderfully tasting and looking cookies -- like those seen on the front of Southern Living. We went online to Food Network and printed up some great recipes and watch some "how-to" videos. We had our list of cookies we were going to make. Then off to the store we go to get all our goodies. By this time we were exhausted and we hadn't even made 1 cookie. So we called it quits for Day 1.

The next day we looked over our list of cookies and decided we need to make some other kinds. Unfortunately, we didn't have all the ingredients ... so off to the store again. Finally by mid-day of Day 2 we started making cookies. Our first batch of cookies were to be these beautiful stain glass sugar cookies. Well .... our 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th attempts ... still didn't look like the beautiful stain glass sugar cookies that we witnessed on the video that clearly stated how EASY these cookies were to make. They all got trashed.

We attempted another "great new recipe" ... I can't even remember what they were, but needless to say they didn't work out either. By this time we were frustrated and didn't have anything to show for our 4-5 hours of hard labor in the kitchen.

We punted the ball and went back to good all faithfuls -- peanut butter with chocolate kisses, chocolate chip, and sugar cookies. Finally we made some progress and had cookies to give away ... by 10pm that night.

It was a great time we spent together. Kaimon and Hannah our neighbor helped us make cookies. It was a lot of fun.