Fifth Annual Cookie Weekend

It has been a bit of insanity at my house the past couple of days. But I won’t go into that. I’ll focus on the good stuff … Cookie Weekend! For the fifth time, we made the trek to Vail with my parents, sister, and our friends and their boys to bake cookies, ski (theoretically), watch movies and generally have a good time.

The snow was … meh. None of the adults got on the slopes at all, but the kids had a great time. Matt took Tabby to a ski shop and got her outfitted with gear on Saturday. Then on Sunday morning, we went to the bunny slopes and got things rolling. Tabby was a bit hesitant at first, scared of going too fast and not being in control of the situation. She had packed it in and taken off her skis when she suddenly decided to try again. This time, with a lot of help from her Auntie Holly (who held onto the back of her skis and kept her from going too fast), she got the hang of it. Before long, she was making good progress and having fun. I look forward to seeing how she progresses this winter.

As for cookies, we baked a ton. I think it might have been an all-time-high in cookie production. We didn’t time things very well with decorating sugar cookies. We had planned to get the kids involved and it ended up being mostly just Holly and me by the end. I was tired and punchy and started decorating the amputee gingerbread men with head-wound bandages. A bit macabre, probably, but highly amusing to me (at least at the time).

The kids had a great time playing together (they always do) and there was very little whining, tattling or fighting. Ben loved watching everyone and taking things in and he also discovered his love for French rolls, which I am guessing helped his poor little gums, since he, like his sister, is working on cutting about 4 teeth at once.

I would probably not classify it as relaxing, but it was a nice weekend.