Magical Childhood Cookies

Eating their cookies

December was a rough month for me for some reason this year. I normally love Christmas and look forward to it all year. I've been known to put up Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving and listen to Christmas music just after Halloween. This year, however, was very hard for me. I'm not sure why (I do have my theory's) but for some reason I just couldn't get in the Christmas spirit and I was really grumpy (it didn't help that the kids were not listening at all.) I was on Facebook on December 10th and I had a friend mention how she loved snow days because it meant her kids could clean their rooms. An hour or so later she decided that she was 'a sucker for magical childhoods' so she made them Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies, let them play outside as long as they wanted, and let friends come over to watch Elf.  I realized after reading her post that I needed to make my kids childhood a little more magical. It hadn't been very magical for too many months, but that day I made cookies for the kids and had them ready for them when they got home from school. I'd like to say the magic lasted a long time, but sadly it didn't last as long as it should have. Sometimes life is just hard and mom's can only manage magic for a day or two. Things are looking more happy around here and we're working more and more on providing 'magic' mixed in with the chores and daily grind. For that day though, I'm happy to say that childhood had a little extra magic to it.

Sarah showing me her cookie! She's such a good sport.

Adam loved the new cookies.

Yummy cookies!

Ben being, well Ben!