zoebartlett
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Do you have any funny and/or special holiday stories you''d like to share?
I just shared this one with my husband and he thought it was pretty funny. My mom is known to be a basic cook -- nothing fancy or gourmet. My sister and I never grew up watching her cook and learning from her just because we were doing our own things and frankly, most things came from a box. (She can cook some things very well, I will say.) This was true at Christmas time, as well. We never hung out in the kitchen as other families do. Around Christmas time when we were little, my mom decided that she was going to make Christmas cookies and turn it into a tradition. For years, she would make the same cookies -- green Christmas trees with green sprinkles on top and red/white candy cane twist cookies with crushed up candy canes. We would help and it as fun to make the cookies, although truthfully, we didn''t like them. My sister, my dad, and I ate them out of obligation, mainly. One year one of us (not sure who) actually told my mom that we didn''t like her cookies. When she tells the story to others, my mom tells people that we actually asked her to stop making them. I don''t remember that, but maybe it was true. There went the end of my mom''s Christmas cookie tradition.
I just shared this one with my husband and he thought it was pretty funny. My mom is known to be a basic cook -- nothing fancy or gourmet. My sister and I never grew up watching her cook and learning from her just because we were doing our own things and frankly, most things came from a box. (She can cook some things very well, I will say.) This was true at Christmas time, as well. We never hung out in the kitchen as other families do. Around Christmas time when we were little, my mom decided that she was going to make Christmas cookies and turn it into a tradition. For years, she would make the same cookies -- green Christmas trees with green sprinkles on top and red/white candy cane twist cookies with crushed up candy canes. We would help and it as fun to make the cookies, although truthfully, we didn''t like them. My sister, my dad, and I ate them out of obligation, mainly. One year one of us (not sure who) actually told my mom that we didn''t like her cookies. When she tells the story to others, my mom tells people that we actually asked her to stop making them. I don''t remember that, but maybe it was true. There went the end of my mom''s Christmas cookie tradition.