This was such a fun year making cut-out cookies (our favorite.) I split the dough up in thirds and let them play in the flour and roll the dough and cut out their own cookies. They put the dough on the cookies sheets themselves and then iced them and decorated them their own way. It’s the best I’ve done at being hands-off so my kids could be hands-on. At the very end they were getting bored with our cookie cutters and so they started using the dough like clay and molding their own unique cookie creations, like worms, Baby Jesus in the Manger and even a hat. In all, it was a beautiful moment with them, one that leaves me feeling all warm inside. They delivered two packages of cookies to our neighbors and we’re enjoying eating on the rest.
Free to embrace the Imperfect and call it an Art.
