As fields are harvested around me, I start writing holiday to-do lists. I will never get it all done but yet lists feel therapeutic to me. One item I used to do with my mom but now never get done before Christmas is cookie decorating. This year, I wrote it down as an activity to do with my nephews and teen daughters. I share fond memories of piping and flooding cutout Santa sugar cookies my mom baked with royal icing. They were the fanciest Christmas cookie we could create, I thought.
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Facebook page piqued my interest in early October when Katelyn Engquist, 29, who lives in West Fargo, North Dakota, shared she is offering two classes of Christmas cookie decorating on Dec. 3 in her hometown of Chokio, Minnesota.
Aside from my love of Christmas cookies and baking, when I see an agriculturist carving out a side hustle or new business niche, I celebrate. I…