2020 Life Logs, Day 353: The Christmas Cookie Elves
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020
Weather: Still Freezing: High 35, Low 26 Degrees
Location: At Home in The Cottage, Falmouth, MA
After a morning of preparing for an online presentation I will give tomorrow from the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis, I headed to the Goldstones with cookie dough I made last night for making gingerbread and sugar cookies. The boys have done this with me enough times over the years that they can now do it mostly by themselves. I lined the cookie sheets with parchment paper, but that was about the extent of my assistance. We used the dining room table, where the boys had just assembled this year’s gingerbread house, to do the cut outs. I gave them the refrigerated balls of dough and they rolled it out, did the cookie cut outs, and got them onto the cookie sheets. It was quite an assembly line. Once the cookies were out of the oven and cooled, they started the decorating process. I had tubes of icing and away they went. We were listening to Christmas music as we worked and we had it turned up as loud as it could go. There was a lot of creative dancing and many squeals of joy when there was a particularly creative cookie design. The Christmas cookie elves did a great job and we all had a lot of fun.
As we were decorating cookies in the kitchen, Heather was using the dining room table to assemble pizzas for their dinner. When she brought one of the pizzas to the kitchen and put it on the center island, there were two little gingerbread cookies waiting there. Ollie made a special gingerbread ‘person’ for Heather and one for Jed and left them on the corner of the center island. Too cute.
Before I left home this afternoon to go to the Goldstones, Karen Baranowski delivered Portuguese sweet bread loaves that she and Peter had gotten in Fall River today. They were going and asked if I would like to get some for Heather and family. I said yes as it makes really wonderful French toast that they love, even after it has been frozen. As Karen was leaving, I let Shadow out to say hello. He immediately headed for the snowman Heather and boys built on Thursday and was trying his best to get the carrot nose. I grabbed my phone and tried to get a photo, but it was at such a distance that it is hard to see the look on Shadow’s face. What a mischievous look he gave us when I yelled no. But he did leave the carrot in place. Maybe I am making some progress with a very naughty, but very cute puppy.
