Baking Advice from a Five Year Old

On Saturday, I babysat for our neighbors so they could tour the White House. Wesley and Lydia helped Jonathan and Alexandra make angels using their foot prints and hand prints. We talked about the angel Gabriel telling Mary she was going to have a baby who would be the Savior of the world and the angels telling the shepherds about Jesus' birth. Then we made Christmas cookies.

This was my first time making sugar cookies. Last year I was given a nice candy cane cookie cutter and a recipe for cookies (thanks Bethany); this helped motivate me to make cookies. When the kids first started cutting out the cookies, the cookies were falling apart. Alexandra said, "You rolled it too thin. You need to make it thicker." She was right! I re-rolled the dough and they turned out great.
Here is a cute picture of Josiah with Alexandra and Wesley. The kids were patient while waiting for the cookies to bake and then cool.
I gave the kids store-bought icing to decorate their homemade cookies.
I let them each eat one cookie. Jonathan and Alexandra took the rest of their cookies home. Chris and I each ate one of our kids' cookies (and I had a second one for breakfast with my coffee this morning).
Once we got our kids in bed around 7:30, Chris went to get takeout from Outback. We had a wonderful adult dinner at 8:15.