Baking Day with the girlsFor the past few years we have a Mother - Daughter baking day. I know a few friends that do this with the girls in their family and thought it was a great idea.
I love giving plates of different goodies to our neighbors and friends. I just remember as a kid getting plates of different kinds of treats and loved it.
On our plates we put pink divinity, store bought nougats, easy smeasy turtles, Mindy's homemade granola, and these darling Santa cookies. (that I bought at the store, pale blue eyes how could I resist?)
The cooking day was completely crazy and utter chaos. The kitchen was a mess! Anything we made with the girls did not go on any plates that we delivered... oh the sick germs and licking of fingers. There was crying, fighting over rolling pins and cookie cutters and I kept thinking, why am I doing this? then this unstaged photo op took place...
All the girls waiting for their cookies to bake. Each watching the one they cut and rolled. (I was serious about not dressing Caroline anymore) Oh the joy that made all the crazy stuff go away!
When Jeff came home they were so proud to show what they made and then I remembered why I do this.
Jeff joined us for some Gingerbread men cookie decorating and we called it a day.
4 comments:
Similar experience at my house today- except I just had one almost naked girl to deal with. The memories your girls are going to have of this tradition will make it all worth it. Love the oven picture- I could totally see myself crying over it in a few years when they are all too big to fit in front of it.
hannah , that makes me cry to even think about . how sweet!
I love the photo of the 3 girls in front of the oven, so sweet. It's always chaos with little helpers in the kitchen, but you're so right about figuring out why you do it. They won't remember the fighting, they'll just remember the fun.
Truly, the oven photo makes it all worthwhile! I love that Caroline is nearly naked...
and that ribbon is to die for!
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