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�" Situation �"As soon as I said we were going to make Easter cookies, my three year old began tugging the ironing board out of its closet. “What are you doing? I asked. “Easter cookies,” she said. We stared at one another a moment �" and then I remembered.
Each year I make a special anise-flavored Easter cookie, the ones I learned to make as a child in Grandma’s kitchen beside my mom and gathered aunts. Since we made these only once each year and there were a lot of us �" we made a lot of them, which means that I, too �" make a lot.
Once these cookies are baked to golden perfection, we frost them in pinks, greens, and that muddy color you get when you try to make purple using food coloring. Oh yes, and lots of chocolate. Then the frosting must harden, or they would all stick together, which brings us back to the ironing board.
As a new family with one child and little money or furniture, the small table we had couldn’t hold all of those drying cookies, so the previous year I had hauled out, you guessed it �" the ironing board. Thus today, my daughter ...