Being In the Moment

In preparation for Bellas's visit this week, I prepared gingerbread cookie dough. When she announced this morning that she wanted to bake gingerbread, I was ready!

She had a delightful time. As you can see from the capture above, she was focused as she rolled out a section of dough.

In the extra, she is pondering which cookie cutter she wanted to use for cookies for her Mom and which cookie cutter to use for her Dad.

The cookies came out very well. We made another batch a couple of weeks ago and the dough was so soft and tender it was hard for a young child to successfully manage it.  This time around I used Martha Stewart's Basic Gingerbread Cookie recipe and it worked well.