Butter Cookie Recipe

At church we are having a cookie sale next weekend. In talking with another baker she told me she was making butter cookies. Since it has been a while since I made cookies I asked if she would share the recipe so I could bake it. The recipe is simple and is for a fairly traditional Dutch butter cookie.

1 C Sugar
1 C Butter
2 C Flour
1 tsp baking soda

Cream butter and sugar. Add in flour then baking soda. Bake @ 325°F 12-15 min. Will be light in color but don't overbake.

While warm they literally melt in your mouth and fall apart. While cool they are yummy as well. Chris says they are too good for the kids to try. Though since the recipe only made 2 dozen he may also eat all of them before tomorrow.

Church Nativity

On the side tables at church they replaced the normal bouquet with a white porcelain nativity scene. GMan realized this as we were singing and went running up to see it. He stopped and started patting the different pieces. He's also looking at them with huge wondering eyes that only kids can get at Christmas. They feel a bit different than ours since we have plastic little people ones and he probably didn't know porcelain existed until now. I'm watching from the sidelines wondering how I'm going to get to the falling one before it smashes into 100s of pieces. He runs back to me nearly knocking me over and tells me that Jesus is in the manger so it must be Christmas! (He keeps asking if everyday is Christmas as we go through Advent this year. We have all the Jesus pieces from our nativities held back until Christmas Eve. They are able to play with them and move the pieces around as much as they want. Then the full nativity is out for play until Jan 6.) He then gives me a super long sweet hug. He asks to go back and see some more. I tell him he can go but he has to not touch. He then places his hand over each piece but doesn't touch as if he's counting each one and making sure that it is there.

Yay for Advent. I'm also super excited about him being more concerned with Jesus being in the manger and that meaning Christmas. We may not really understand everything yet, but at least that seems like a good first step in the whole, "Christmas is when Jesus was born" conversation.