It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!
People on St. Simons are feeling especially festive this holiday season. We even spotted some decked out driftwood! (Image courtesy Bobby Haven, The Brunswick News).
The month of December is often a special time of year when friends and family gather together to both reminisce about the past year
and celebrate the year to come. We heard from our Facebook fans that their traditions involve everything from fun games and ornament swaps to special meals and activities. You know that at SeaPak, we love to cook. And, isn’t baking a “must” around this time of year? We think so! In that spirit, and in the spirit of giving, we’re hosting a giveaway to make it easier to bake some delicious cookies for those you love.
If you want a chance to win a cookie cutter, simply comment on this post with your favorite holiday tradition, memory or meal. We’ll randomly select 75 entries Wednesday, December 14th at 2:00 p.m. EST to receive a lighthouse cookie cutter.
Why a lighthouse shape you might ask? It’s in honor of our very own St. Simons Island lighthouse. You might have seen it on our packaging. In case you’re unfamiliar, it’s the oldest brick structure in coastal Georgia and is still in operation today. 
You can see a picture and read more about our heritage here.
We’ve also included our favorite sugar cookie recipe below. They’ll melt in your mouth!
We hope this sweet treat will bring a little coastal flair to your Christmas baking. Happy Holidays from all of us at SeaPak to you and yours. May this season be filled with laughter, love and the joy of the season!
SeaPak Lighthouse Sugar Cookies
1 c. butter
2/3 c. sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 c. sifted flour
Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar; then beat in egg. Add vanilla, salt and sifted flour. Mix until all ingredients are well blended. Chill dough 3-4 hours before rolling. Roll out to be 1/4 inch thick. Lightly flour edges of Lighthouse cookie cutter and cut cookies. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden in color. Remove from cookie sheet and cool on wire rack. Cookies can be frosted and decorated or eaten just plain. Makes about 16 cookies.
Frosting:
3/4 c. powdered sugar (sifted)
1 Tb. butter
1 Tb. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. lemon juice
Melt butter. Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth. Add food coloring if desired and decorate. Yield 1/3 cup.
POSTED BY SeaPak AT 9:59 am Monday December 12th 2011 152 COMMENTS
Jo Ann Flatt ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:12 am )
the cookies sound yummy
carol ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:12 am )
baking Christmas cookies of course…such great memories with my mom..and now with my own kids
Stephanie ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:12 am )
My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating Wigilia, which is the traditional polish christmas, even though both my sister and i have moved many hours away from my parents we still all meet up on christmas eve for this celebration
Mary ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:12 am )
Cookies sound great.
Sonia ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
I like to light a candle and say a prayer for all those not present and send gratitude for having or having had them in my life.
melanie mcclanahan ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
My favorite holiday memory is making sugar cookies with my daughter and decorating the tree with my family
amy warren ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
my favorite memory of christmas growing up was going into the woods to pick our tree.
laura McCollister ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
My favorite holiday tradition is bakeing with my children! Happy holidays everyone
Jeanne Simon ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
I think our favorite Christmas tradition is making cookies together every year.
Jennifer Woosley ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am )
I love making sugar cookies. We make them every year and I let my kids decorate them and we give them to the neighbors.
Kim ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:14 am )
Always remember baking and decorating the cut-out cookies with my mom and siblings. Probably what helped create my love of cooking and baking that I have today.
Frida F ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:14 am )
My favorite Holiday meal is ham!
Kim ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:14 am )
I enjoy Turkey with all the trimmings. I also make a ham for others to enjoy
Amanda wilson ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:15 am )
I love the spirit of Christmas. People helping other people. The look of the faces of children when you give them a gift! I always say believe in the magic of Christmas!
Rachel Byrne ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:15 am )
Every Christmas my kids and I bake and decorate dozens of sugar cookies. We have so much fun, and i know it’s something they will remember.
Lemonia K ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:15 am )
I like to decorate my daughters rooms for the holidays. Love seeing their faces light up when they see the decorations!
karen ferguson ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:16 am )
My favorite memories were traveling every Christmas to my Grandmother’s house and making ornaments from pinecones.
Robin Yost ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:16 am )
Making ornamnents and cookies with my kids. And they love decorating the tree of course!
Trisha Miller ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:16 am )
my favorite memory of christmas is baking sugar christmas cookies with cookie cutters with my mother in law before she passed away!
lisa mcfarland ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:17 am )
going to midnight Mass with the family
Cristy Gonzalez ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:17 am )
I love Christmas and being in the kitchen for all the Holiday Festivities.
Beverly ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:17 am )
My favorite holiday tradtion is when the entire extended family gathers for our annual Christmas eve dinner.
NiCole W ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:18 am )
We make homemade hot chocolate and cookies every year.
Eva ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:18 am )
Sugar cookies- yummy
merry Christmas 2all
Kelly Lique ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:18 am )
My favorite family tradition is decorating the christmas tree, drinking hot chocolate and making cookies for Santa!
Tonya Payne ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:19 am )
I love to go to my in-laws eat, and open presents.
Susie Janov ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:20 am )
My favorite holiday memory is the Christmas morning I woke up to find bootprints in the ashes of the fireplace! Santa even tracked some of the ashes out onto the hearth & floor. That was proof positive for 5 year-old me!
Lori C. ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:20 am )
My favorite memory of Christmas is of making crafts with my grandma. One year we made Santa & Mrs. Claus figures out folded pages of Reader’s Digest for the “legs” and styrofoam balls for the body and head. They were gaudy but I loved them. I carry on this tradition with my son & nephew. They made penguin and snowmen ornaments this year.
Alesia Fisher ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:20 am )
As a child I loved going to pick out a Christmas tree and watching all the trees being flocked…..
Melora ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:21 am )
I will make these with my boys. They sound great
Ariane Houie ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:21 am )
I love this time of year! I think my fav memory is being a kid, trying to fall asleep on Christmas eve so Santa would come. I’d always swear I could hear his sleighbells, and someone walking on the roof.
Melissa Young ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:21 am )
One of my favorite memories are a couple of ornaments we had on our tree. They looked like little red houses (plastic with like a thin felt type covering). Around the door and windows the trim was white as if it were icing. I don’t know why but I just loved them! Last year I found in the store a gummy house that looks very much like that. I haven’t eaten it and it’s out for decor this year!
Shandle Moss ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:22 am )
My favorite memory of Christmas is the town being so quiet on Christmas morning and knowing that it’s quiet because everyone is inside enjoying time with their families.
Mary ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:22 am )
Baking cookies and pies so the house smells good for days.
JIM ERDELT ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:23 am )
Thanks for the sugar cookie recipe. My Christmas tradition has been Pie and candy making. I used to just make a couple of pies for our Holiday party at work, and people wanted to know if I could make some for them. Usually make 25-30 during the Holidays along with peanut brittle and pralines.
Angela ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:23 am )
My favorite family traditon is when we make sugar cookies and my children ages 4 and 5 frost them…with a variety of colors! They usually end up eating alot of frosting!
wanda sellmeyer ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am )
My favorite holiday memory
is loving my grandchildren on the holidays & seeing their eyes light up with their presents from Santa.
Love lighthouses & would love the cookie cutter
Debbie Reifschneider ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am )
Favorite memories were making Christmas cookies with my mother and four siblings. It was so much fun cutting out those sugar cookies and decorating them! Then over 40 years later, I continued the tradition with my son (adopted from Korea in 1990). He’s 22 now, but when we can get together, we still like cutting and decorating holiday cookies. A memory that will always be with us!
Marci ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am )
Favorite tradition is putting up the homemade Christmas stockings and making new ones for all the new members of the family each year.
cher n. ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am )
My favorite memory of Christmas was my brother giving me a toy piano when I was about 10, then my mother bought me another one,same kind when I was 27.That was the most special present I\’ve ever received.
jonathan ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:24 am )
Baking chocolate chip cookies listening to christmas music and watching frosty
Patricia H ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:25 am )
I love making cookies for the holiday to give to family and friends. Some of my favorite holiday memories include making cookies with my mom and grandmother and also of making them with my son when he was younger. Now I gather with my sister and sister in laws every holiday season and we bake cookies all day long.
Traci H ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:28 am )
Love your Shrimp Poppers and the cookies do sound good.
leann ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:31 am )
One of my favorite holiday traditions is my children and I will sit down together and cut out lots of paper snowflakes. We then hang all of the around our dining room. It rarely snows where we live, so it creates a winter wonderland for our holiday meals
Margaret ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am )
Having a Christmas Bake-a-thon with my daughters and grandaughter!
Kathy ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am )
Baking cookies!
Jodi B. ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am )
My favorite Holiday tradition is going out a weekend or 2 before Christmas to look at all of the holiday lights in the area. We have such a nice time listening to Christmas music on the radio and driving around to see the lights. It’s such a nice break from the hustle and bustle of getting ready for the big day!
Janeen di Rienzo ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:33 am )
I would wake early during the holidays and the kitchen counters would be full of cookies cooling. I just knew that my mama worked for Mr. Claus …..
bridget ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:33 am )
Preparing our annual christmas dinner for my family and baking cookies with my kids. It’s the time spent together that is so much more important than the gifts:)
Karin Ellis ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:34 am )
Lighthouse sugar cookies are making me hungary.
KAREN ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:36 am )
I have a crepe myrtle tree outside that gets decorated every year. That’s one of my favorite holiday traditions.
Sara ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:37 am )
I love making and decorating sugar cookies with my family!!
Sara ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:37 am )
I love making and decorating sugar cookies (from scratch) with my family!!
Linda Bundrick ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:38 am )
my favorite at Christmas is all the different kinds of cookies my sisters and I bake, we do a cookie swap every year and it is a wonderful tradition
Dana Rodriguez ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:39 am )
Baking cookies has always been a Holiday tradition in my family!
Carol Stoike ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:40 am )
Baking cookies, having family over for Christmas, and Santa passing out the gifts to the children.
Kevin Bell ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:41 am )
I can still remember going to my Grandma’s for Christmas Dinner. It was nice to be together with all of the family and the food was always wonderful!
Holly Thomas ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:41 am )
Decorating the Christmas Tree!!
michele malone ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:43 am )
every christmas my mom cooks a country ham in an old fashioned lard stand. it’s the most wonderful holiday treat. while I don’t know the specifics, she basically puts a fully cured country ham in a lard stand, pours boiling water over it, puts on the lid, then wraps it in blankets and newspapers for a coupel of days. when she pulls it out, it’s so tender that the bone will pull out of the center.
letessha w ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:47 am )
My fave holiday meal is stuffing, sweet potato pie, turkey,ham and potato salad
Sherrie ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:48 am )
There\’s nothing like an old fashioned Southern Christmas.
Carol Harris ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:49 am )
Christmas cookies are good, but this year is all about the breads. I have made Banana nut bread and now working on Applesauce/raisin Bread..love all the goodies and sweets
Joanne Hepler ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am )
Best memories are from years ago when everyone would gather at my grandparents house.
Sheryl Edwards ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:50 am )
A family tradition is to always have oyster dressing. My grandmother and mother used to always make lots of cookies, breads and candy for everyone in the family. I am going to try to continue the tradition.
Briana White ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:53 am )
My in-laws have taught me their tradition of Christmas Brunch. We gather around noon or so, eat brunch,open gifts, and get time to relax. This makes an exhausting day much easier and earlier. i love this tradition!
Deborah Curran ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:55 am )
sounds easy and yummy
Mia Everette ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:55 am )
The cookie recipe looks like a keeper! :+)
Susan Benson ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:55 am )
A great family tradition of ours was to bake butter cookies. We would make batches and batches and then decorate them.
Melissa ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am )
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around to look at Christmas lights while waiting for Santa to come on Christmas Eve.
Lori C ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am )
My fav tradition is making and decorating cookies with my 2 kids.
Marilyn S ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am )
Baking cookies with the kids!
Laurel H. ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:57 am )
A favorite holiday tradition has been, quite honestly, to bake cookies for at least two solid weeks during the holiday season! Also, on Christmas day, we begin listening to the Chronicles of Narnia on audiobook.
Deborah Curran ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:57 am )
sounds easy and yummy – we have a tradition with a friend – every year we get together to bake cookies – we get the dough ready – the kids cut them out and decorate – its so much fun
michael wheatley ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:58 am )
im baking alott of cookies for my 6 yr old daughters school.and knowing that cookie cutter came from that special place that has the best shrimp would be great…
Laura Emerson ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:04 pm )
My favorite holidday tradition is when we all go out together to the Christmas tree farm and cut down our own Christmas tree.
Ellie Herron ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:06 pm )
My most memorable Christmas memory is making cookies and pies the day before Christmas and packing everything up to go to Grandmas’s house. My mom would make my favorite dessert which was homemade vanilla pudding with oranges and bananas in it! Hope everyone has a blessed and safe holiday season!
Sandra Welborn ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:09 pm )
My favorite memory was when my girls and I strung popcorn and made paper snowflakes and decorated our \"charlie brown christmas tree\" with only lights and homemade christmas decorations. It was beautiful
Karen Pearson ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:10 pm )
How awesome! I was just looking for a cookie recipe for cut-out cookies to do with my grandchildren! Thanks!
laura ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:15 pm )
my favorite family tradition is being together christmas eve and the little ones getting to open one present each while we eat, talk , sing and tell stories!!
Steve Stavlo ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:17 pm )
Love baking pies, this year it’s going to be a tart cherry with granule sugar topping.
Ron Miller ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:17 pm )
Donuts and Apple Cider whilst carving pumpkins at the kitchen table!
alice ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:17 pm )
I love baking w/my daughter & now my grand daughter….Love to bake & have the house smell so heavenly.
Pauline Gray ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:21 pm )
My tradition is the baking and decorating
Susann ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:25 pm )
My favorite memory is putting out the luminaria on Christmas Eve, going to the candlelight church service and driving around after the service to see all the holiday lights (and other luminaria).
Callie ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:25 pm )
Love baking Christmas Cookies! Great Tradition in my Family
Melinda Singer ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:27 pm )
Your sugar cookie recipe is just the motivational tool I need to get out those cookie cutters and get baking!
Michelle B. ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:40 pm )
Your Lighthouse cookies sound yummy!!! Cookies are a HUGE Christmas tradition around our house…we bake many different kinds and then give them to our friends, neighbors, and relatives! Thanks for the new recipe!!!
Pam Grossman ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:40 pm )
When we have our family Christmas party someone always brings decorated sugar cookies ! They are usually all gone by the end of the party (or some take for Santa Claus) !
Cindy Carlson ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:42 pm )
ham is always better at xmas
Cindy ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:47 pm )
Playing games with my family after Santa comes on Christmas Eve.
Sarah Austin ( December 12th, 2011 at 12:56 pm )
I loved all my grandmas baking. She made the best treats. So I love eating the goodies from grandma’s recipe books.
Kim Sanducci ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:03 pm )
I love sugar cookies and a lighthouse cookie cutter would be so nice to have!! What a great idea.
Lorrene Blackburn ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:10 pm )
When my kids were young, we always made Christmas cookies together. Now I am continuing that tradition with my grandkids. It is one of my, and I hope one of their, favorite Christmas memories.
Karen ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:34 pm )
I think it has to be when I found one on Santas Bells on the windowsill of my bedroom!!!
Rhonda Powell Polk ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:34 pm )
Christmas morning breakfast and new Christmas pjs!
Chris ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:38 pm )
25 years ago I made a grapevine wreath while living on Cape Cod. We have moved several times and now live in the Pacific Northwest. I still have that wreath and I still decorate it with local greens and holly.
Sue P. ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:44 pm )
Bakery cookies have been my usual but if I win the cookie cutter, I will definitely attempt the baking part.
MISTY ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:54 pm )
THE HOLIDAYS USE TO BE HUGE GET TOGATHER BUT WE LOST OUR GRANDMA ONE WEEK BEFORE THANKSGIVING LAST YEAR SO FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS IT SEEMS LIKE OUR FAMILY TRADITIONS HAVE BECOME TO UPSETTING FOR OUR FAMILY. EVERYONE HAS WENT THERE OWN WAY ITS SO SAD SO MY HUSBAND AND I ARE TRYING TO MAKE NEW TRADITIONS. ITS BEEN VERY HARD AND HOLIDAYS SEEM EMPTY. IM TRYING TO GET MOTIVATION TO BAKE AND COOK BUT HAVENT GOTTEN THERE YET MAYBE A NEW COOKIE CUTTER WILL START ME IN A GOOD PATH TO MAKE A BATCH OF COOKIES.WE ARE GOING TO THE BEACH ON CHRISTMAS I HOPE TO SEE SOME DECORATED DRIFTWOOD!! AND WE ARE GOING TO GO SEE THE LIGHT HOUSE IN NEWPORT OREGON CHRISTMAS I CANT WAIT!
Michelle D ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:54 pm )
My Brothers and I always got to pick out ONE gift to open Christmas Eve… we would ponder for hours before on which gift we would open, since i had to be the best gift.. it was so much fun.
Jeremy Haiar ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:55 pm )
Simply putting up the Christmas tree with the family. Each ornament has a story that has to be remembered every year.
anthony demarco ( December 12th, 2011 at 1:56 pm )
l0ve chris eve. no meat FEAST OF THE SEA ONLY HAPPY H0LIDAY.
anthony demarco ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:00 pm )
XMAS EVE, NO MEAT. ONLYSEAFOOD.
Karen W ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:09 pm )
Growing up we always got up and opened our gifts before we had our breakfast. The breakfast usually included different types of egg dishes and my favorite was always the shrimp quiche. I still make it to this day.
Casey ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:23 pm )
Baking cookies and reading the night before Christmas on Christmas eve
Dana ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:25 pm )
Recently married, I have continued the tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve with my husband, often after we’ve been to a church service. It’s such a special way to usher in the celebration of Christmas morning! Halleluia! Then on Christmas day, I’ll usually cook a roast for us to have a lovely Christmas meal together–that is, after opening our presents in our pajamas! Those are some of our traditions. Oh, and also wishing folks a “Merry Christmas!” instead of this insipid “Happy Holidays” that has taken hold in PC-America.
Sharon Hopkins ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:35 pm )
~~ One of my most favorite memories is my mother teaching me to make sugar cookies and decorating them at Christmas. She is gone now, but I continue her tradition with love.
Deborah ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:42 pm )
I love Christmas, always have…I will be making these cookies along with all my other favorites..Merry Christmas to all..
Christy M ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:54 pm )
I just love being out during the holiday season…love seeing everyone enjoying the weather,shopping, and helping those in need. Love this time of year!
Marilyn G ( December 12th, 2011 at 2:55 pm )
My favorite memory is all the family getting together to eat and play. We had LOTS of cousins, aunts and uncles who were would only see once or twice a year, so it made the holidays very special!
Nicholas Otzel ( December 12th, 2011 at 3:17 pm )
There’s nothing like decorating the tree.
Sara ( December 12th, 2011 at 3:25 pm )
One favorite Christmas food memory is my great Aunt’s cranberry cake with warm butter syrup. Yum!
Pamela Spicer ( December 12th, 2011 at 3:28 pm )
Our traditions have become more flexible as we are getting older and our children are now having children but we always do atleast one handmade gift each season. How wonderful to offer this give away!! Our extended family gets together once a year to have a mini family reunion in Maine near the Nubble Light House. What a great cookie cutter to have to celebrate those meories!! I don’t think I have ever run across one before!!
Jess S. ( December 12th, 2011 at 4:01 pm )
I miss Christmas celebrations of the South. It has been almost 15 years since I left the beauty and wonderful salty sea air of the SC/GA shores. I think I miss the Low Country Boil on Christmas day the most! I wish we had the great seafood up here in Michigan…it just isn’t the same. Merry Christmas from Michigan!
Sam Sasek ( December 12th, 2011 at 4:05 pm )
My favorite Christmas morning tradition is breakfast at my Aunt Jody’s house. A quick pace, non stop “hurry-up-and-get-your-food” good time!
Sandy ( December 12th, 2011 at 4:12 pm )
When I was a child growing up in Detroit Mich. my mom got us up early so we could go see the beautiful floats in the Hudsons Thanksgiving Day parade .Then my sisters an brother new Santa would be here soon
Sandy ( December 12th, 2011 at 4:14 pm )
I can remember after the first snow mom would make snow cream
JULIE TARDI ( December 12th, 2011 at 4:51 pm )
we always had breaking of the bread on christmas eve as a child i used to get mad at my uncle because he’d always take a big piece of mine and i wouldn’t have enough to go around i got smarter as i got older i would go to him last
Ana Suri ( December 12th, 2011 at 5:08 pm )
My favorite memory is celebrating with my 3 kids and husband, around the Christmas tree last year, everyone laughing, eating chunks off the gingerbread house getting ready to open that “one” gift each on Christmas eve, which is something we do every year but last year felt much more special.
Sharon ( December 12th, 2011 at 5:10 pm )
We have a Family get together and the members who are in the service and can’t be there call and it is as if they are there also. That is the Spirit of Christmas
Kathleen Carpenter ( December 12th, 2011 at 5:59 pm )
I and my brother used todecorate sugar cookies then my children and now my grandchildren enjoy this family tradation
Siggy ( December 12th, 2011 at 6:42 pm )
Cookies recipe sure sounds good.
Morral Siegwald ( December 12th, 2011 at 6:43 pm )
Recipe sounds good
Louise ( December 12th, 2011 at 7:04 pm )
Well I am 80 and I have spent Christmas Eve with my grandson who is now 16 yrs and that is my joy to be abe to see him grow up to a great young man.
rose lockridge ( December 12th, 2011 at 7:10 pm )
my favorite thing to do is make cookies and let the kids cut them out but most of all is decorating them to see how imaginary they can be
Rebecca Kramer ( December 12th, 2011 at 7:11 pm )
My favorite memory of Christmas is doing the Christmas Cards I send to everyone. Also enjoy receiving the cards everyone sends tome.
Rebecca Kramer ( December 12th, 2011 at 7:12 pm )
My favorite Christmas memory is sending out Christmas cards and receivin them from others.
helenlam ( December 12th, 2011 at 8:00 pm )
We always do a white elephant gift exchange. It’s crazy!
Jack Marsh ( December 12th, 2011 at 8:38 pm )
Looks pretty yummy to me!!
Stacy ( December 12th, 2011 at 8:58 pm )
My favorite memory is one that i will never forget. Spending Christmas day on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, with my mom, sister and three nieces. What a great time.
vickie ( December 12th, 2011 at 9:01 pm )
being a little kid and waiting for Santa – we always left out christmas cookies and a pepsi
JAMES ALLEN ( December 12th, 2011 at 10:17 pm )
My favorite memory of christmas growing up was going into the woods to pick our tree.
Ellen Moseley ( December 12th, 2011 at 10:31 pm )
My favorite memory of Christmas is the one where we had the least to give, and received so much. Our children took their money received for Christmas from their Grandparents and purchased a gift for me and their Father. I still get teary-eyed thinking about it. Christmas is all about Family, Love and Giving.
Judy ( December 12th, 2011 at 10:36 pm )
I have a lot of memories of baking cookies over the years; with my kids, so much fun!
Cheryl B. ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:03 pm )
Thank you for the wonderful recipe. I am hoping to try it myself soon.
Jen White ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:37 pm )
One of my favorite Christmas memories is from about 1958 when our church youth group made a video of the Christmas story (on St. Simons) and the “Bethlehem” street scene (complete with street vendors) was set up and filmed along Sea Pak’s green concrete block wall! Good memories!
Ruth ( December 12th, 2011 at 11:58 pm )
I miss having my daughter and granddaughters putting up the tree after Thanksgiving dinner. My son-in-law is in the Navy and they had to move to Virginia.
Janet Atchey ( December 13th, 2011 at 12:27 am )
I love sugar cookies and these sound delicious.
Kara P ( December 13th, 2011 at 1:55 am )
We always made cut out cookies and decorated them with my mom and now the kids and I do the same thing.
Debra P ( December 13th, 2011 at 3:55 am )
My favorite holiday tradition is inviting my friends over to make cookies. We each leave with a tin of all mixed! Such fun!
Marcie ( December 13th, 2011 at 7:13 am )
Baking cookies is the best
Lucy ( December 13th, 2011 at 7:14 am )
Love to bake and spend time with my family
Barbara Marek ( December 13th, 2011 at 7:18 am )
Driving through the neighborhood checking out all the Christmas lights.
Carrie Conley ( December 13th, 2011 at 7:59 am )
My favorite memories are the grand meals and spending time with family and friends…
penny hart ( December 13th, 2011 at 8:48 am )
i remember helping Dad make our own traditional fruit cake. The recipe was never written down. or if it was the paper has been lost for years. most years i can remember it correctly! last year it was perfect!
Kay Day ( December 13th, 2011 at 9:09 am )
Every year my mom would make Turtles – a super yummy cookie with caramel and chocolate. We also made Russian Tea – a recipe my Great-Great Grandmother handed down. To this day, we still make these family favorites at Christmas time!
Kathleen Gereg ( December 13th, 2011 at 9:29 am )
Wrapping presents on Christmas Eve while listening to Christmas carols in the glow of many,many candles.
SharonAnne ( December 13th, 2011 at 10:30 am )
My favorite memory is probably when all the family on my Mom’s side would gather at my Gram’s farm the Sunday after Christmas. We’d cook and bake all morning, then enjoy the afternoon eating, reminiscing and enjoying time as a family. I was an only child, so connecting with my 16 cousins was a treat! I miss those days, although I hostess a family party of my own, one of the traditions of my Gram remains…punch. The kids love assembling the punch, placing the “fancy” ice ring and serving guests.
Lynne Jaffe ( December 13th, 2011 at 12:51 pm )
My favoorite thing is to spend time with my family, relaxing and having fun.
Michelle Kennamer ( December 13th, 2011 at 4:41 pm )
My favorite Christmas memory is BEFORE both of my Mom’s~my real and step-mom had cancer:( They are BOTH going through cancer treatments at this very SAME time! I remember us getting together and spending some GREAT time with my families:) We are having to wait til after Christmas to spend it with my precious step-mom and Dad because she is not feeling up to it at this time:( Then my real Mom will be haivng another treatment before Christmas, it looks like. I PRAY for next year’s Christmas that everyone will be doing a lot better:) PLEASE show AND tell ALL your LOVED ones EACH day how much you LOVE them because you NEVER know WHAT tomorrow MAY bring! My husband and I absolutely LOVE SeaPak and we eat it a lot!!! In fact, I am on my way to the grocery store to stock up on it like I always do!!! What WONDERFUL tasting different types of food to be able to have WITHOUT it costing TOO much these days!!! Merry Christmas to all and thanks VERY much SeaPak for ALL that you do for us! Have a BLESSED day!!!
Ann Vedo ( December 13th, 2011 at 6:34 pm )
I enjoy our family tamale making night on Dec 22. We make them with pork, beef, chicken one is stuffed with a green bean, the lucky one who gets it wins a prize.Maybe we will try shrimp this year.
Kim ( December 14th, 2011 at 6:28 am )
I enjoy my time with family and friends. I always make a big dinner with Turkey and Ham and all the trimmings.
Marcie ( December 14th, 2011 at 7:36 am )
My fave tradition is trimming the tree