It's Christmas in the Kitchen

It's Christmas in the kitchen
All is calm....all is bright.

That is, until it's time to start the Sugar Cookie Marathon Day. No other Christmas goodies compare to the mess that making sugar cookies becomes!

It's not Christmas without them...

And the dogs know when I'm mixing something up it's time to watch...and wait. For something yummy is bound to accidentally hit the floor.

Soooo alert. So watchful are they. See the flour on the little guy's head?! Ha!

Oh...what fun it is to clean up after flour and cookie dough!

And this is my first Christmas with a Kitchen Aid...and lo! The angels sang and much frosting was able to be whipped up without my right arm falling off from holding the hand mixer! Hallelujah!

(I always use butter and almond flavoring in my frosting. Santa is watching over them for me.)

Like an artist's pallette...

Holly leaves...

And Santa toes...

Pink and blue gingerbread children...
(Which makes me wonder: will my little grandchild-to-be need to wear pink or blue?!? I will know SOON!!!! YAY!!!)

(I always wonder how they get these little nonpareils to be so perfectly round and so beautifully colored....such little wonders these are! They have a lot of static cling and I always wonder if the people who work in the factory find them all over themselves when they go home at night?! These are the earth-shattering questions I come up with while I'm baking.)

Their patience pays off...when it's all said and done, we split a cookie. We don't feed our dogs much people food but they can't stop themselves from begging anyway, and who can resist those big, brown, begging eyes?

"Please, mama, may I have another?!"

Oh, yes...
And a hug too!

MERRY CHRISTmas from all of us to YOU!!!!