Christmas Cookies
Invisible Friends, I’d like to introduce Cookies the Owl from the Land of the Flowered Bed.
Many of you think he’s cantankerous, arrogant and rude from reading my book.
And that may have been true.
Before Cookies got a friend.
Meet Crumbs. He accompanied us home after my booksigning at the Twig.
Now, Cookies has many friends. He lives in the Land of the Flowered Bed after all. But Crumbs is a special friend.
He’s a Christmas cookie loving owl friend.
You see, Cookies would never admit it, but he loves Christmas cookies.
He adores Christmas cookies.
He is a Christmas cookie fiend.
From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, Cookies inhales as many cookies as he can get his hands on.
Snickerdoodles…
Wedding cookies…
Oatmeal cookies…
Gingerbread…
Cookies and Crumbs love them all.
You wouldn’t know it, but Crumbs can eat a lot of cookies.
The cookie-stealing bunny is majorly jealous.
But the funniest part of this whole cookie loving friendship…
The reason I’m revealing this secret to you (without their knowlege…)
Is what happens at night, while they think the world is asleep.
If you sneak in the kitchen…
Late at night, hidden in the shadows…
You’ll hear Christmas music cheerfully playing.
And you’ll see bright lights and smell sugar and icing and cinnamon.
And there in the kitchen, in a whirlwind of cookies and messy bowls and mounds and mounds of crumbs and fallen sprinkles…
Dance these two little owls, shoving cookies in their mouths as fast as their wings can fly and singing this George Strait song at the top of their lungs…
“I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells, and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
Now Christmas cookies are a special treat
The more she bakes the more I eat
And sometimes I can’t get myself to stop
Sometimes she’ll wait till I’m asleep
She’ll take the ones I didn’t eat
And put those little sprinkly things on top
Now those sprinkly things just makes things worse
Cause it makes them taste better than they did at first
And they’re absolutely impossible to resist
Some disappear to who knows where
But I make sure I get my share
And those kids just stand there waiting for the ones I miss
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
She gets mad that they’re all gone
Before she gets the icing put on
Sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
Now there’s a benefit to all of this
That you might have overlooked or missed
So now let me tell you the best part of it all
Every time she sticks another batch in the oven
There’s 15 minutes for some kissin’ and’a huggin’
That’s why I eat Christmas cookies all year long!”
Let me tell you, it’s really hard not to giggle when you spy on this late and night.
Hoot and Who did giggle at first…
Until they joined the party.
So if you ever have a hankering to see dancing owls singing country Christmas carols and snarfing cookies late at night while a jealous cookie-stealing bunny looks on…
That’s just Christmas in the Pond.
Stay tuned, Invisible Friends! Tomorrow we have the final Isadora, a tasty recipe Thursday and a new Dallas Jean Friday! Stay tuned!
December 1st, 2009 at 3:42 am
Awww, this post is so cute. I really enjoyed reading the little story. The owl is adorable, esp the baby one. It looks just like this penguin I have. And the holiday cookies look so good to eat.
And thank you for your wonderful comment. I really appreciate it. I’m happy to be done my internship and to be moving home again soon.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:01 am
What a wonderful assortment of cookies. How appropriate the name crumbs is. Thats all that would be left on my plate.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:19 am
Cookies has a partner in crime now huh? Better keep an eye on your sweets!!
December 1st, 2009 at 5:27 am
YUM
December 1st, 2009 at 5:45 am
Those owls are so cute!
December 1st, 2009 at 6:24 am
My favorite is the cookie stealing bunny. Then again, I am partial to bunnies.
December 1st, 2009 at 6:37 am
A cookie eating owl who also sings! The pond is a delightful place!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:02 am
Ahw, cookie time for critters!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:03 am
yes yes yes- wedding cookies are amazing!
kHm
December 1st, 2009 at 7:13 am
The image that popped into my head is adorable…what cute little owls…I love them all!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:16 am
Cookies and Crumb, too cute.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:27 am
Aaawwwww! There is nothing cuter than a pair of Christmas cookie loving owls! Absolutely adorable Duckie!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:48 am
Cookie-cramming owls are THE best! I’m back in the lad of the blog-reading. Can’t wait to catch up on your stories!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:53 am
YUMMY!!! I really have to remember to come by your site AFTER lunch!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:59 am
I am having a cookie exchange on Saturday! Can’t wait!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:07 am
Nice cookies! I mean good lookin’ cookies, wait…oh forget it!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:18 am
Cookies go with Christmas like Apple pie goes with 4th of July…hmmm now that’s a thought…Christmas Cookie Pie!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:25 am
I think Cookies is destined to be my BFF – I too inhale any type of cookie I can get my hands on from Christmas until New Year’s! Love this story!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:30 am
Cookie is cute but Crumb is still my favorite!!
December 1st, 2009 at 8:43 am
Cute post. Now I am craving cookies.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:58 am
I love it when cookie-stealing bunny takes the cookie! Yum!
December 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
My daughter is an owl fanatic! Love the song and the cookies!
December 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am
Awww Christmas in the pond sounds like so much fun! I love all the little creatures
Kitten Bitten and Jolie would love to attend a Christmas party! Perhaps you should throw one 
December 1st, 2009 at 10:28 am
We have cookie stealing bunnies in this house too…except they are also known as my brothers.
Crumbs = too cute.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:45 am
mmmm, christmas cookies are one of the best things about the holidays!
December 1st, 2009 at 10:49 am
Great fun here at the Pond, with this so beautiful post!
I like all these little nice creatures and the Christmas cookies of course!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:19 am
Your cookies look divine! I especially love the little gingerbread man!
December 1st, 2009 at 11:37 am
I love cookies tooooooooooooooooo
December 1st, 2009 at 11:56 am
I love that Christmas song; it’s one of my all-time favorites.
I love Christmas cookies, too. I’m just not very good at making them. I’m much better at Christmas fudge, and caramels, and other things that are so good I don’t even know where to begin describing them. But the cookies … I just don’t do well. Wish I did. They are sure yummy and fun! And your little owls are just too too cute!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Crunch … crunch… love Christmas cookies.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Cookies and crumbs are very cute and your household sounds magical Duckie. Jane x
December 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I’m ready for the cookie season!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:32 pm
You and Cookies and Crumb can bring cookies to my house any time!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Stuffed animals are the cutest. I keep buying them for my daughters. I keep saying we have too many because they take up so much space… and then I buy more.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Cookies and Crumb are too cute.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Your little critters are certainly in a festive mood. I will be when those cookies are passed my way! The Mexican Wedding cookies are my favorite. When my sons were toddlers they renamed them *Snowball cookies*. Because every time we would make them together they’d get covered (from head to toe) in powdered sugar. They’d say…”look mom it’s snowing on me”. They’d have a winters blast making those cookies.
Sweet holiday wishes,
Sara
December 1st, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Aww love your fat little owl! Or is that an oxymoron
December 1st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Gingerbread is my all-time favorite….
December 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Oh, that durn Cookie-Stealing Bunny is at it again, huh? Ella Numera Dos spent most of the day baking sugar cookies. My MIL used to call them “cut out cookies.” We’re going to have a major icing party manana…
December 1st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Those lil cookie stealers are Owls after my own heart.
Too cute! I love your stories.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Oh, no Cookie got a cookie loving friend….there goes your Christmas baking, lol. Such a sweet story. I am thinking about reading it to my little boy, he would love it.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Gingerbread! Yummmmmm
December 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Ahhh, aren’t Christmas cookies wonderful? I am hoping to do an cookie exchange this year. I wish you could come Duckie!
XOOX
Jen
December 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
OH how cute. I did like the cookie stealer.
xxx
December 1st, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I’m drooling on my keyboard! Pass me a cookie, please…
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 am
I love Cookie and Crumbs! I would love to play all night singing and eating Christmas cookies. Hoot and Who are such lucky owls.
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
You and my babygirl would get on so well! She has a huge love of all things stuffed especially animals!
~ingrid
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
The visual this gave me just made my day. I will never hear George Strait the same again.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
How great Xmas cookies are! Love yhe pics.
hugs hugs.
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Aww, I love owls, and both Cookies and Crumbs have stolen my heart.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
You are such a Hoot!
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
They are adorable! What cute names. I want to snarf cookies down with them!
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I wanna be friends with ‘em too…I love the Christmas cookies!
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Cookies and I have much in common!
December 4th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Ohhh, I love it, Cookies and Crumbs!!! Only you could come up with the perfect name for Cookies’ partner in crime! I’m with them. I Love cookies too!