QUESTION OF THE WEEK #4

Hmm. It's hard to say what my favorite holiday memory is.  I think that I just have a tradition in particular that I really enjoy every year...and that would be making Chistmas cookies.  Ever since I can remember, my family has always made Christmas cookies, because of course Santa needs cookies on Christmas Eve, and because we love to eat them!  The process all begins when my mom makes sugar cookie dough and lets it sit in the fridge for two days.  After the long period of waiting (and stealing lil pieces to eat of course :)) my sister and I take out the dough and the flour and the sprinkles and the frosting and the cookies cutters.  Let me just tell you right now, that making cookies is not a simple task.  It's taken years of determination and practice to perfect the process of rolling out the dough with rolling pins to the perfect consistency and then the careful placement of the cookie cutter shapes on the dough in a way that will produce the largest number of cookies from that particular piece of rolled-out dough.  It takes a steady hand and a stubborn desire to succeed to remove a cut piece of dough from the cookies cutter in a way that won't ruin the shape.  Many deformed shapes have been deserted over the years I've spent practicing.  However, the fun doesn't end when the dough is cut out and put on the the cooking sheets.  Sprinkles are the world's most messiest and fun creation.  It's impossible to create a batch of awesome cookies without having sprinkles strewn across the kitchen floor--but hey! It's the best part!  After the cutters have successfully cut, the sprinkles have been sprinkled, and the oven has been preheated begins the excruciating but extremely good-smelling wait for that buzzer to ring.  However, it's worth it every year to get a little taste of those yummy yummy cookies.