He's asked every day, and today was the day! We made sugar cookies and decorated them tonight. He woke us at 7 this morning with a packet of chocolate chip cookie dough in hand, saying "wake up everyone--we have to make chocolate chip cookies for Santa today!". He was dismayed to learn that there are still two weeks until Christmas, but was somewhat mollified by the idea of baking and decorating sugar cookies. We stopped at the grocery for sprinkles and cinnamon buttons and chocolate chips and mini M&Ms, and a tube of icing to adhere them all to the cookies. Once we were home, I had my usual baking cabinet calamity--I reached up to remove stuff from the top shelf and it all fell on my head, all except the green sprinkles that I was looking for. David took everything out as I insisted that we had green sprinkles (I used them on our St. Patrick's Day cookies). Dennis loaded everything into the mixer himself and turned it on before I could get over to it--he loves that new mixer as much as I do--and the dough turned out well! Dennis rolled it out himself (with a tiny bit of assistance) and cut shapes that we baked and cooled. When it came time to decorate them, I found that I needn't have concerned myself with the green sprinkles. He wanted red sprinkles on every cookie. And red cinnamons and red M&Ms... And afterward, as we sat together eating our lasagna supper with the cookies on a cooling rack behind us, Dennis said "red is my favorite FAVORITE color!". I can tell. We used most of the bottle of red sprinkles that I bought today (not knowing there were two bottles at home!).
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