Cookies Tradition

Every Christmas the girls and I decorate cookies to give as gifts to our friends and neighbours. The baking marathon begins each year around November. I would bake tens of dozens of cookies and freeze them. When the girls are out of school, they help me decorate. One of the reasons I started this tradition is that gifts are too expensive and there really aren't much choices - unlike in KL! And, if you know me, I love giving gifts - it's the most wonderful feeling! One year, we decorated a huge sugar cookie- about 4 inches big for each of our orphans. Now that we have over a hundred orphans- I don't do that anymore :-) Here are some sample of cookies we decorated and yes! it is a labor of love! We are still looking for things to put in the 800 goodie bags we are doing for our children's home. We have some pencils, cookies and candy. I ordered the toothpaste and toothbrushe- but only have 100 of each instead of 800. So I have to keep trying. Some friends here are wanting to help and donate stuff to our bags so we will see. We will give them away in the second week of January when school start.

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