The last year my son's family were here for Christmas, about 6 years ago, I had all my grands here and we made cookies and frosted them. The following year I only had my grands from my 2 DD's here they remembered the fun they had with there cousins, we called them, and they were decorating cookies too, we spent about an hour on the phone. They next year and every year sence wherever my grands are I pick the day an time, all Mom's make cookies and mix frosting , we have enough cell phones between all of us we can talk to each others homes, while the kids deco. cookies, This year we all have the cameras for our PC's so we will share pic's of our cookies with each other as they are frosted. It's not the best but we get a few hrs to visit and the cousins get to see each other and catch up on important kid stuff, My grands range in age from 18 to 6 and they all seam to enjoy it. We all have Verizon so it doesn't cost anything extra.