2021 Life Logs, Day 352: Christmas Cookie Frenzy
Date: Saturday, December 18, 2021
Weather: Overcast and Rainy; High Temp 46, Low Temp 40 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Weatherwise, today was the opposite of yesterday when it was wonderfully warm and sunny. Today it was overcast, cool, and rainy. A good day for making Christmas cookies. But Heather and gang went to Hyannis this morning to test drive a new vehicle possibility and ended up Christmas shopping their way home. I had texted Heather early in the day asking if anyone might be interested in making Christmas cookies and she replied that they were planning to do just that when they got home. But she added that Sam had deemed me the Cookie Woman saying they couldn’t make Christmas cookies without me. So late in the afternoon when they got home, we dove into a full out Christmas cookie making frenzy.
Now that the boys are older, all I had to do was hand them a recipe and they took it from there. I had made one batch of Martha Stewart’s sugar cookie dough in the morning ‘just in case’ they wanted to make cookies today and I put Ollie in charge of rolling out that dough and cutting out the shapes. I gave Sam a recipe for chocolate crinkles that are coated with confectionary sugar which makes them look like they are covered with snow. And Jonah got his favorite recipe which are Hersey’s Kiss cookies without the peanut butter. Sam was also in charge of the music and for the next two hours we all worked and sang and danced and made merry. Heather and I basically staid out of the way, only coming when we were called. But then Heather took the challenge of turning some little cube-shaped wafer cookies I bought into little presents by covering them with icing and putting a bow on with decorating icing. They will put those around a cookie tree the boys made out of the sugar cookie dough and sit it outside their gingerbread house that is yet to be made. We will continue working on this project after school this week and on Christmas Eve.
Tomorrow we are off to Boston to go to Revels at the Sanders Theatre, a beautiful concert hall on the Harvard campus. This is a tradition for us, but we haven’t been since 2018. In 2018, we went to both Revels and a Celtic Christmas, but in 2019 we decided to go to neither. Then, of course, last year in 2020 there were no performances. So, we bought our tickets for this year when they went on sale in October and when there was no Omicron variant. We are all very excited to go tomorrow even though we know it is a COVID risk. But everyone attending must show that they have been fully vaccinated and must be masked. We do hope our reveling will be done safely.
