Every Christmas season, we are busy in the kitchen. Like most families, food defines most of our traditions. One traditional food that we always make, and give as gifts, is Jumer rolls. They are a small rolled cinnamon sugar nugget of goodness that was served in a local restaurant back home. Our church there would mass produce these at Christmas time to sell at our bazaar. They always sold out. We made 55 trays this season for others, and also baked about 6 that we consumed for ourselves. The girls are very, very good at making them after so many attempts.
There is nothing in this world like having a little help in the kitchen. I love, love having these littles beside me every day.
They are a tremendous blessing, and they also make everything I do take about four times longer, but it is so worth it.
And then there are the cookies! Boy do we make cookies. I probably would have scaled back this year, but the teenager insisted we make all the cookies. We got a late start, but I made more than seven kinds, and twenty dozen in one day. Tradition is important to my biggest girl.
In most every picture this year, our Jillian is smiling. This is the happiest holiday season she has ever had. She has done this Christmas thing five times now, and I feel like she finally is enjoying it. It makes this momma's heart overflow with gratitude to God as I watch her trusting so much.
We make these cookies that I made when I was a kid. They are not cut out, but formed by shapes we cut.
Emily has been making them her whole life, and she insists we do it every year. Many, many memories have been made while we have made these cookies. Many Christmases spent with good friends decorating with laughter.
Jilly doesn't chew so she won't eat a cookie, but she isn't afraid to touch and play in the trimmings anymore.
This is the first one Molly ate. She came home not liking sweets too much, but Anna Mei has successfully converted her to the sweet side.
I am not sure there could be any more frosting on this cookie. Anna ate it all though.
Who needs to eat? Throwing is so much more fun.
Daddy stepped in and finished, as usual, when the girls were tired of decorating.
Here is Anna Mei over looking a favorite variety of ours for Christmas. These are her beloved Mrs. Larkin's cookies minus the frosting. We had no trouble polishing off three dozen of these babies as they are our favorite. Now after I see all that we have been eating around here, we may need to fast for the entire month of January. I hope your holiday was a blessed one, and you ate a bit healthier than we did.
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