I guess what takes me back the most is baking cookies. Dad would always take us five girls on a Saturday before Christmas and we would go to a tree farm and find and cut down our own tree! We would go home and Mom would have been baking sugar cookies. Dad would get the tree in the stand and ready for decorating while we girls would decorate the sugar cookies.

I always think about this as I decorate my own tree (although it is artificial) and as I decorate my own sugar cookies.

Although I don't have children of my own, I have started a tradition with my friend's children. They come over and help me decorate my tree and we bake cookies! It is like I am re-living my childhood dreams! I love it!