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| note: this tray doesn't show any real camels, just a couple of mini-dromedaries (a later addition to the original nativity set) |
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| Aunt Libby and Nessa frosting cookies |
In December, Christmas cookies are always in excess supply
around home. When we were little, Mom used to plan a cookie baking day at the
end of school just before Christmas break. Great-grandma’s sugar cookies in nativity shapes were always somewhere in the line-up of sweets to make. What's not to love about frosting and decorating cookies? Colored frosting, cinnamon red hots, edible gold balls, sprinkles...!
The nativity cookie cutter set ranged in size from the one-bite
star cookies, to three-bite wisemen, to… well, fat-bellied, high-humped camels.
After dinner, we children were each allowed to choose two
cookies, excepting camels. Camels were for big people (like our uncles) when
they visited for holiday meals.
As we grew up, the nativity cookie cutters shrank (they must
have… how else can we explain the fact that camels are no longer enormous
cookies, but rather normal sized cookies with little legs and protruding necks-??).
We continue to tease Joel that camels are for
uncles only. These days, the uncles are all my brothers except for Joel. While
he is a daddy, he’s not an uncle. Though we continue to insist he’s not allowed
to eat camels until he’s an uncle, somehow Joel manages to sneak through the
regulation and keep up with the uncles in the camel-eating department at
Christmas…
Earlier this week it was a treat to frost nativity cookies
with our nieces and nephew. Their artwork has been delicious, and the uncles
have nearly depleted the camel supply ;).
There’s been a new cookie cutter added to the nativity mix,
though—an angel. And, she’s huge!
It’s no surprise that the other afternoon
when Nessa asked her daddy for a cookie, she wanted to choose an angel. I’m not
sure if the angels are for the aunts or for the uncles, but, Nessa’s daddy
helped her choose a colorful four-bite “Joseph” instead…
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| camels and donkeys and stars, oh my! |
Looks like lots of sweet fun. Love the stories.
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