A recipe for in between the big holidays + more merriments

And tidings of so so so many sprinkles — and joy!

Hello! Hello!

The end is nigh. Then again, so is the beginning. Another year. Lots of high spots. Lots of lows, too — some inevitable, but still hard. New friends made. Good friends gone (why can’t the good people live forever). Cookies galore. Even more cakes. And another year that we’re together. I have a lot to be thankful for. And I am.

Tell me when you get tired of hearing me thank you for being here. Just know that I won’t stop. You mean too much to me.

Sprinkles and a Slew of Good Suggestions

Last week, Michael and I drove into NYC to decorate holiday cookies with VV, our 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter, and her 11 classmates. I’ve made cookies before and I decorated cookies with Joshua when he was little and with VV and her big sister Gemma, 4, on weekends. In fact, Gemma and I made cookies for her school’s bake sale just a little while ago. But I’ve never had to figure out a decorating session for 24 little hands. I knew that Joshua, Linling and Michael would be there as well as VV’…