Cookie Queen

We had the most wonderful day making cookies with Nana. This lady is a pro--she had stations and jobs like "unwrapping mini peanut butter cups" and "rolling dough into balls" and "slicing shortbread loaves" and "pressing said peanut butter cups into said dough-balls". Perfect. I felt like we were at a magazine shoot for a feature story on Baking with the Grandkids. The table was even set with red placements, cardinal plates, holly berry glasses and festoons of [very good] candy for frequent baking breaks!

Here's Bryce loving all his jobs, and helping with the taste testing:

And Deacon carefully placing each peanut-butter cup into the container (later Bryce and I chucked in the rest):

You know it's pretty much been the best Advent activity ever when--as you walk to the car carrying your tupperware of cookies (which gloriously includes warm chocolate shortbread sandwiching from-scratch peppermint ganache)--your children buckle in asking, "Mommy, but when can we come back to Nana's? That was the best fun ever!"