My sister-in-law, Nadine, wrote to me about some of the things that she does for her grandchildren. She said:

“One thing that I always do is give each of our grandsons a book for Christmas, so that it encourages them to read. For Thanksgiving, I took round sugar cookies to their home and we decorated them to look like a turkey using frosting and candy corns. They loved doing that and eating the cookies. In fact Logan (who is 2 years old) kept eating the candy off as fast as we were putting them on.

“We usually go to Disneyland (they live in California . . . ) with our grandchildren for a couple of days once a year and stay in a motel close by. But now that they are in school it is harder to do because we usually do it the day after Labor Day when it is less crowded.”

Thank you for sharing, Nadine!

I thought that I would link to the recipe for my soft sugar cookies in case you missed it.  You can use this recipe to make tasty sugar cookies that you can decorate for any holiday — or to make for just whenever.

You know, there are two things that I am noticing that is quite common among grandmothers:

• Grandma = cookies!! Many grandmothers make cookies with their grandchildren. That’s wonderful. (I’m going to do that for sure.)
• Grandmas like to give books to their grandchildren to foster an interest in reading

I don’t recall making cookies with my grandmother. But, when we did go to visit, she would have strawberry flavored soda pop and she would make us a strawberry float. That was really a treat for us since we never had that flavor of soda pop at home. I’m thinking that grandma’s could have almost any type of food and, as long as the grandchildren know they are loved by grandma, the grandchildren will love the food grandma fixes!  Except maybe beets . . .

Enjoy!
Digi-Gram

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