Our very first year of baking cookies and delivering them to our neighbors, police stations, and fire stations was in the fall.
We remember walking through our neighborhood with just sweatshirts on delivering those cookies that year!
Ever since then this has become a Christmas time tradition, and one that we love.
Some years have been more ambitious than others, based on the season we were in.
Some years we have achieved ALL of the baking in one day!
This year we spaced it out again – a Monday afternoon, a Tuesday evening, and most of the day Wednesday!
On Monday we made the base of our trays which are those beloved monster cookies!
Then Addie Mae made the peppermint meringues on Tuesday evening.
They are a beautiful cookie!
Wednesday we rallied our crew and got started with the rest!
Kayla and Briar joined us for the day, which was BY FAR the best part!
At some point the littles played games while the rest of us continued to work!
The cookie trays turned out SO beautiful!
We feel like they had so much more color than in years past!
Don’t worry – I wrote down everything we did, how many of each, how many trays it made, and I have a file where I keep all of my notes like this from Christmas!
My brain is full, folks!
I have to write it all down!
I made a card to go with each tray while Kayla worked on her Christmas cards!
These two silly puppies were smitten with Briar too!
They would not leave Kayla’s side all day!
Isn’t that funny?!
I think this is a tradition that will stick around!
We all enjoy planning and baking the cookies for the trays very much!!
But delivering these beautiful cookie trays is always the best part!
