As a child one of our Christmas traditions was to decorate Christmas cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. My two younger sisters and I would load up Sugar cookies with way too much frosting and sprinkles and end up eating probably more than we put on. There are old VHS tapes of these adventures at my mom’s house but we only filmed it and didn’t take pictures so for this part of the post I have nothing to show you.
My sister and I both have children and have decided to carry on this cookie decoration tradition with our kids. Sometimes we have all been together to do this, some Christmases I’m with my husbands family and my sister has moved so it will probably be awhile before all the kids can do it together again. The point is that it was a tradition that we both enjoyed from growing up that we carried on with our own families. I wouldn’t be surprised if with my other sister has a family of her own she does it as well.
My husband and daughter doing cookies last year
my sister, her husband and their son, my little nephew
my other sister and our niece
my daughter showing off her work
Here she is with her aunt Kerry, we alternate Christmas eve with my family and my in-laws and this is my husband’s sister
Sprinkle mania!
I wish I could find more photos of us doing cookie decorating since we’ve been doing it since she was two.
The cookies end up so sickly sweet that I just take a bite or two, to show that Santa tried them but sugar cookies, with an inch of frosting and sprinkles becomes overwhelming
What are some of your Family traditions?
Because my husband has to share Christmas with his ex and their daughter our ‘traditions’ seem to vary from year to year. We watch Elf, Polar Express and make cookies as well as put up special ornaments on the tree. We have small ones and large ones but at least these are consistent.
This is such a FUN family tradition! I LOVE getting the family and kids involved in cookie baking… In our house, this year was the first year the kids actually interacted end enjoyed themselves… Thank you for sharing 😉
My kids love decorating Christmas cookies with their Grandma every year. Not on Christmas Eve, though, because our Christmas Eve is packed full of traditions with the extended family including matching Christmas pjs for everyone (since my childhood), and our more recent tradition of the Ugly Christmas Sweater contest! Those are just a few of the many traditions that we have 🙂
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We love making the stockings. The kids love designing their own personal messages. Its just wonderful