Pizelle Cookies and Covid-19: Giving Back to My Community
I spent the past weekend making #pizzelle cookies for my neighbors, as we are all social distancing at home due to the #Coronavirus. These cookies are made on a press, two at a time. I first learned how to make these cookies when I was much younger, and was given a pizzelle press from my Nana. Each Christmas season we would get together at Nana's house to make 12 or 15 batches of pizelles to give to family as holiday gifts.
In addition to VIRTUAL #Coaching, #Consulting, and facilitating learning, I enjoy making these cookies. It takes about 2 to 3 minutes to make each pair on the press, and provides me with time to #reflect and remember those I have made cookies with in the past.
After my Nana passed away in 2011, I inherited her pizelle press, and now have two! I then made pizelles during the holiday season with my Mom, who although limited to a wheelchair, is very able to run a pizelle press and help!
A few years after I started making pizelles with my Mom, my first grade teacher reached out after her mother had passed away. She shared that she inherited her mother's pizelle press. My first grade teacher and I have stayed friends my entire life, kayaking together in the summers on Cape Cod, going for walks in the winter, and now making pizelles!
Since I moved to Boston two years ago, my partner and I now make the pizelles together in our kitchen. This tradition brings me a lot of #happiness and fond memories of times growing up in my Nana's Kitchen and now making these cookies with friends and family.
Due to social distancing, I packaged the cookies and dropped them off at my neighbors' doors, and then sent them a text or rang their door bells for the surprise delivery.
Many of the of the recipients emailed or texted me photos of them with the cookies and a thank you message. The #smiles on their faces were worth every minute of the baking!
I love #volunteering and giving back regularly. Those who follow my blog know that I volunteer as a coach for Babson College students in the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork program and for Massachusetts Conference for Women. Feeling limited to volunteer in person with the quarantine, making cookies seemed like a great way to give back to my neighbors and my #community.
What are some ways you are supporting or connecting with your community during this quarantine? Comment below.
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