Cookies and Caroling

Every December we load up the van and take the entire family to the
annual Institute Caroling Activity. This year Sister Hawkins spent
four hours making sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. While the
college kids made some spectacular creations, the Bacon Boys did their
best to keep up. . . perhaps not in artistic ability but rather in
their ability to pile their cookies high with frosting and sprinkles.
Warner especially LOVED decorating and came home with a plate full of
10 masterpieces. He spent most of the evening at a table with 6
college students just as comfortable and happy as could be.

The caroling this year, though a balmy 14, seemed colder than usual.
I happily stayed behind with the littlest four but heard account after
account about cold hands and feet and saw the red noses and rosie
cheeks. After a few cups of hot chocolate with marshmallows it seemed
to be all but forgotten.