WAGI~ Creative $ Gifting

 With Christmas just over a week away you may be doing a little holiday baking.  After all Santa is going to need some cookies when he pops down the chimney in eight days.  Sugar cookies are always a favorite at our house.  Decorating them as a family is a fun activity.  Now that my kids are older we are less likely to create the sugar high cookie.  You know the one with more frosting, candy and sprinkles than cookie.  To make a few of your own, sugar high or other wise, here is our recipe:

SUGAR COOKIES

1 cup sugar             

1/2 c. butter

1 egg       

1/2 c. milk plus 1 T. vinegar

1 Tbs. vanilla

3 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

Cream sugar, butter and eggs.  Add liquid ingredients.  Slowlly add dry ingredients.  Roll 1/4″ thick and cut into desired shapes.  Cook 8-10 minutes at 350* on greased cookie sheet.

If you are like me you have a few people on your list that have requested money.  I know for my college age children that it is probably what they need most, but it seems so boring to give.  So I thought this creative  idea from I Heart Nap Time fixed that problem.  Besides it seems it would be a lot more fun to receive than just and envelope.

I also heard of a fun idea from a friend for those hard to buy people.  She said that a friend of hers give each member in her family x amount of money at Thanksgiving.  They are to spend as close to it as possible without going over.  They meet at her house on Christmas and with the gift they bought wrapped.  Then she gets to watch everyone unwrap their gift and is able to see what she bought them.  Thought that was kind of a fun idea.