Making Christmas

The boys invited some friends over for cookie decorating and play time the Wednesday before Christmas. I ordered pizza to nosh on while the cookies baked and we let the kids run around a bit. I put Polar Express on for them to watch. Two things about that: One, it was two days before HoHo Claus was scheduled to make his rounds. There is no WAY the kids could contemplate sitting still enough to watch it anyway. Two, that movie puts ME to sleep. It's not boring but the darkness of the film and the hum of the train can seriously put me into a self-induced comatose state. The movie was a no-go.
When lunch was done, cookies were out of the oven, and the kids were settled in at the table, it was time for decorating to commence. I figured we'd get some really gorgeous oh-look-my-kid-is-Martha-Stewart's-clone type cookies. Haha! So, I apparently forgot to tell Caden that there's a certain way to use sugar sprinkles. He took the entire bottle and dumped it on his cookie. It was a sugary mountain of colored sprinkle goodness on top of a cookie. By the time the kids were done, I was in sugar shock just from the amount of icing, cookies, sprinkles, and pure cuteness of it all. Let me also say that a plastic table cloth would have been a better way to go as opposed to my parchment paper idea. I will say that the cookies did come out beautifully because of the sentiment behind them. The giggles and shrieks that came from the kids were pure entertainment.