Planet Jassi – Groovy Foodies Reindeer Cookies

Hi Superstars ,
Join Jassi as she gets excited for christmas with so many things to do before the big day. Christmas day is celebrated on 25th December and is both a scared and religious holiday and world wide cultural and commercial phenomenon. Some popular customs include exchanging gifts, attending church , sharing meals with family and friends and for the little ones waiting for Santa Clause to arrive.
It is said that on christmas eve Santa loads his sleigh with toys and flies around the world , drawn by nine reindeer. With the most famous one of them all called Rudolf the red nose reindeer. Can you name all nine of Santa’s reindeers? Jassi may need some help. Now tradition has it that Santa on christmas ever stops at each child’s house , he slides down the chimney and leaves gifts, refreshing himself with cookies left for him by the house holds children.

So join Jassi as she makes some very special red nose reindeer cookies to leave out for Santa.
You can follow the recipe as Jassi takes you step by step in how to make these no bake cookies using basic pantry items and some fruit. They are delicious I hope Jassi and The Captain manage to not eat them all before christmas eve.

A Message for Parents and Carers

For kids with autism the Christmas holidays can be a very stressful and anxious time. Holidays also mean changes in routines and schedules, visitors, crowds, line -ups noise and socializing . Meeting family demands can be especially difficult for parents and carers especially if you don’t want to break family traditions that just don’t work for children with autism.
In sharing some of our experiences we hope that we can make the holidays happier so here is a little story .

When Eliza was very little she would not have anything to do with Santa Claus, she would scream and run away. I remember one christmas when we mentioned that Santa was at the shops she dropped her drink all over the floor and bolted the other way. I just thought she didn’t like the man in the big red suit as many young children would often cry when they were having their photos taken. I as her mum was more upset because I wouldn’t have that Santa photo from 2000 to show when she was all grown up. Over the years this did not improve and because as her parent I didn’t understand why. Back when Eliza was very young there was little knowledge and understanding about autism spectrum disorders and as a family we continued to try and expose her to the idea of Christmas and desperately wanted her to experience what regular families did . When Eliza was about 12 years old she had some much younger cousins arrive and her aunty wanted to get a Santa photo with all the cousins as a family tradition to give to their grandparents . “Good luck” I said if you can get her to do that then that would be our family Christmas miracle. Well today I reflect on that milestone day when Eliza got her first Santa photo and from that moment on we were able to get all the cousins together and begin a new family tradition. Eliza did it in her own time we just continued to offer the experiences .