Sunday afternoon my friend Alissa hosted a cookie exchange complete with lots of cookies and since kids were invited, she also had lots of things for them to do including making candy reindeer, decorating cookies, and Santa coloring books. It was so thoughtful for her to think of these things and as I parent I super appreciate it. The day of the party Ben woke up asking if it was time to go to Alissa’s and he could barely make it to 2:00pm he was so excited. We also had our first snow of the season that morning and got maybe an inch or so which I think is the…