Happy Kansas Day!

Today, January 29th, our beautiful state Kansas turns 156 years old. Growing up I was surrounded by Kansas history and spent a lot of time at the Kansas Museum of History volunteering in the gift shop with Grandma Betty. I’m pretty sure that’s where our tradition of making Kansas Day cookies started. Each year Grandma Betty would bake sugar cookies in the shape of a sunflower (with a chocolate star in the middle) and the shape of the state of Kansas (with a chocolate chip on the capitol Topeka) for me and my cousins to take to our elementary school classrooms. This year I was able to carry on that tradition! I took 10 dozen sunflower and state cookies to work and shared them with faculty and staff. A few already knew that today was Kansas Day, but many did not so I had the opportunity to give some state history and tell them how my Grandma made these cookies for us when we were young. I handed them out in the morning and by the afternoon I heard people saying “happy Kansas day!” or “did you know today is Kansas day?”