COOKIE “MOMSTER” RETURNS - Windham Public Library Hosts Decoration Day

Atanacio Lopez got an unexpected icing surprise, vacationing in Windham from Mexico with his family in what seems like an opposite journey, traveling from the heat to the cold.

Pretty darn serious about eating that cookie, Lilly Lawrence, the 3-year-old granddaughter of Windham Hardware store owners Jim and Diane Lawrence, wastes no time before taste-testing her decoration, finding it greatly to her liking, accompanied by her mom Johanna.

The Cookie “Momster,” Theresa Corrigan, brought colorful sweetness to her family-for-a-day at the Windham Public Library, last weekend Corrigan, the mother of three daughters and eight grandchildren, is a longtime edibles decorator and studier of the skill at the Culinary Institute of America, making her third holiday season trip to the mountaintop book center, providing the cookies and tubes of yummy icing while kids of all ages did the prettifying.

Welcoming cookie lovers young and older, (left to right) Windham Public Library director Candy Begely (with one of her grandsons Loghan Montana), Aryanna Telles cookie partner to the head baker and decorator Theresa Corrigan, and 9-year-old Windham-Ashland-Jewett school student Kishan Dutt who had a simple and obvious answer when asked what he would do with his self-decorated sweets, saying, “eat ‘em.”