You may recall that every Christmas, since 1967 or so, our family has made Christmas cookies that we decorate and then hang on the tree. It's an old recipe that my mom got from some lady down the block when we were kids. It makes rather hard and crispy cookies, almost like a shortbread, we decorate them with colored sugar, chocolate chips, chocolate ants (as we call them), and whatever else we can find. Then you make a small hole at the top, thread it with, well, thread, and then hang em on the tree. And weirdly, these things can last for weeks on the tree, they don't spoil, and they still taste great. Our original set of cookie cutters we've had for 40 years, and I went on eBay last year and found the same cookie cutters, originals, and got a set for each of my brother and my sisters. This year, my brother's kids, the youngest of the gang, are away, so we made the cookies with my sister's 11 year old boy and my other sister's 3 boys (aged 24, 21 and 16 or so). The funny part was, the older kids got WAY more into it than the younger ones ever did. It certainly raised the level of decorating up a few notches - though, of course, there were a few questionable cookies, such as the one that provoked this back-and-forth:
My mom (pointing to a cookie): It's a naked lady.So to revisit our AMERICAblog tradition, let's share your Christmas (and other holiday) traditions.
Nephew: Noooooo. It's a naked lady? It's a naked one-legged lady.
