Day 6--Cookies!

Today was our tradition of baking cookies with Auntie Val. Every year my sister and I would ditch school one Monday during December. We would spend the night and each pick out a cookie from a cookbook. Then the next day, we would go shopping for the ingredients and bake our cookies. We loved this and I really think that's where my love for baking came from. Auntie Val never told us we couldn't do something. She was very patient with us let us take ownership of our own cookies.

Brendan had to have auntie val supervise him, or he would've dumped the whole container of sprinkles on one cookie

Auntie Val's schedule is different now so we don't have time to make the cookie dough while she is over, so Brendan and I did that while the big kids were at school. Then when they got home and Auntie Val came over we rolled out the cookies and sprinkled away!!

Auntie Val let them each roll some dough by themselves

I am not going to lie, the kids go all out with the sprinkles. There were a few mountains of sprinkles on the cookies. But honestly, the more sprinkles, the better they taste. I wish I hadn't put the kabosh on the over sprinkling!

I love that my kids get to make these kinds of memories with Auntie Val too. Jenna and I got to have such a special relationship with Auntie Val and Uncle Randy, that I am grateful that my kids get to experience a bit of it too!

*(ignore the kitchen--it's not finished. I am getting countertops today and keeping my finger crossed that I will get handles and knobs this week!)