Thursday, July 26, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Pretty Cookies for sale
It's Wednesday night and I am up late baking chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Our extended family is having a garage sale (not at my house) and it starts tomorrow. Mikkena really wanted to set up her own little table and sell something. So here I am baking at midnight.
It's been interesting - very quiet- no one fighting over who gets to lick the spoon or the bowl. Yes, I do have a tummy ache. I not only got to eat lots of dough, (no one to share with) I got to lick the bowl and spoons all by my self. (twice)
I made 2 different recipes. One off the oatmeal box and one off the chocolate chip bag. I was very surprised at how very different the recipes were. The main ingredient from the oatmeal box was oatmeal. The main ingredient from the Choc. chip bag was chocolate chips-----Surprise!!!
I had a little problem with the second batch. I didn't have enough brown sugar, so I put in a little extra regular sugar. My eggs were kinda small so I put in 3 rather than 2. Oh, its late so I am not sure if I measured correctly. Welllllll.. when it was time to put the dough into little balls my mixture looked like half cooked oatmeal...very runny! I added a little of this and a little of that and it started to look better. I tasted it.. it tasted fine. So off to the oven with the little runny balls.
They turned out fine. The first batch/recipe looks very pretty. The second batch are not pretty , but they have twice the amount of chocolate chips in them.
Now this "Pretty cookies" idea is something I didn't understand when I was little. My Grandma and I would bake cookies all the time. She would comment on if they were pretty or not. If we shared cookies with neighbors or friends they would get the pretty ones and we would keep the others. When you are little, cookies are just cookies and they are yummy to eat. But now as an adult I understand my Grandma's idea of "pretty cookies". When I do a cookie exchange at Christmas time I only use the pretty ones for the exchange.
So Mikkena will sell the "pretty" ones and my family will eat the others!
It's been interesting - very quiet- no one fighting over who gets to lick the spoon or the bowl. Yes, I do have a tummy ache. I not only got to eat lots of dough, (no one to share with) I got to lick the bowl and spoons all by my self. (twice)
I made 2 different recipes. One off the oatmeal box and one off the chocolate chip bag. I was very surprised at how very different the recipes were. The main ingredient from the oatmeal box was oatmeal. The main ingredient from the Choc. chip bag was chocolate chips-----Surprise!!!
I had a little problem with the second batch. I didn't have enough brown sugar, so I put in a little extra regular sugar. My eggs were kinda small so I put in 3 rather than 2. Oh, its late so I am not sure if I measured correctly. Welllllll.. when it was time to put the dough into little balls my mixture looked like half cooked oatmeal...very runny! I added a little of this and a little of that and it started to look better. I tasted it.. it tasted fine. So off to the oven with the little runny balls.
They turned out fine. The first batch/recipe looks very pretty. The second batch are not pretty , but they have twice the amount of chocolate chips in them.
Now this "Pretty cookies" idea is something I didn't understand when I was little. My Grandma and I would bake cookies all the time. She would comment on if they were pretty or not. If we shared cookies with neighbors or friends they would get the pretty ones and we would keep the others. When you are little, cookies are just cookies and they are yummy to eat. But now as an adult I understand my Grandma's idea of "pretty cookies". When I do a cookie exchange at Christmas time I only use the pretty ones for the exchange.
So Mikkena will sell the "pretty" ones and my family will eat the others!
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Now you are in trouble!!
Mikkena was really worried this morning.
She finally asked me if she would get into trouble and have to say she was sorry for something that happened in her dream.
With out laughing (this was so hard) I asked her what she had done in her dream.
She said she had a dream about playing with a friend. In the dream she hit her friend.
She seemed relieved to know that she wasn't going to get into trouble.
She must dream like I do. When I dream it seems so very real. My Grandpa was like that too. I don't need to go to the movies I just need to go to sleep and I am entertained.
She finally asked me if she would get into trouble and have to say she was sorry for something that happened in her dream.
With out laughing (this was so hard) I asked her what she had done in her dream.
She said she had a dream about playing with a friend. In the dream she hit her friend.
She seemed relieved to know that she wasn't going to get into trouble.
She must dream like I do. When I dream it seems so very real. My Grandpa was like that too. I don't need to go to the movies I just need to go to sleep and I am entertained.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Photo Day
I am trying to get back into the swing of things. So here are some fun photos.
We just did Mikale's hair. This is what we call the "Lava" look. We did it just in time for Sonshine. You can't tell from the back but there is red on the top of his head.
Mikkena had to have this new shirt. Here she is posing with her Dad.
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