Baking for Jesus!

Well, Josie and I spent the day baking for Christmas. We baked cookies and buckeyes. First I put on my apron and when she seen me in it, she just looked at me and touched the apron. Then I explained what I used it for and she began to understand it a little more. I also explained when we were cutting out the cookies that we were baking these for Jesus' birthday. She got very excited about that. I explained about the star was used to guide the wisemen to Jesus, so she kept making star cookies and said she was making them for Jesus. She would use the rolling pin and just love rolling out the dough. She would just laugh and smile while baking. Then she used a sleigh cookie cutter to cut one out and then she said, "Look it is Jesus on the cross." I had to laugh, because I have no idea how she thought that looked like Jesus on the cross, but if that is what her little mind wanted to see, that was fine. When the boys came home from school, they seen the cookies and started eating them. Josie got mad at them and said, "No eat them, they are for Jesus." Then, when my cousin came over she showed her the star and said, "We cooked Jesus." So, by evening the star cookie was called Jesus according to her. Well, she has lightened up a little on eating the cookies, because I have seen her a couple of times tonight with a cookie in her hand:) Thomas approved of them, b/c after eating them, he informed me that when he asks for me to bake cookies again these are the ones he wants me to make:). So, we had a nice mother/daughter baking day. It was one of those moments that I will treasure and look forward to each year. She may not understand everything that comes along with Christmas here in America, but she knows that we were "Baking for Jesus!", and that Christmas is truly celebrating, the birth of Jesus (and that is the important part:)).