A batch of home-made Christmas M&M cookies fresh from the oven:
Around the holidays, whether we need 'em or not, I always feel compelled to bake some cookies.
If you asked folks one thing they remember about my Grandma, I am guessing the majority would say her Christmas cookies. She would start in November and literally bake thousands of cookies... and at least a dozen varieties. She would box them up and hand them out to pretty much to anyone and everyone.
Before I moved out to Arizona (and long before she left us mentally, then physically), Grandma wrote out some of my favorite cookie recipes on note cards. Though I know those cards are in my recipe folder, it still startles me to see that handwriting in red pen.
And while I rarely get mushy spiritual, I have to say I feel her presence when I am making and baking the holiday cookies. This afternoon I was thinking just how pleased she would have been that they now sell bags of M&Ms with just the red and green ones!
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