Best way to make a whole lot of cookies?
Do up several batches of dough (we made peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and candy), roll ’em in saran wrap, and toss ’em in the fridge:
Pause.
Because surely by now you’ll have 2-3 little ones in need of your love and attention.
Go be a mommy.
Come back to cookies, cut each log into 4 doz. cookies. Squish or roll as needed.
These make little cookies:
Perfect for little hands:
(and mommies like them too 😉 )
What better homeschooling activity?
A trip to the library with a good friend!
And then home to cozy up on the couch for a good read.
As you may have noted, I have picture taking power!!!
Thanks to a wonderful friend who passed her old camera along to me, pictures of charming grandchildren will be returning to their regularly scheduled blog.
🙂
Our basement has been very busy lately.
Wood has trumped toys and books:
They boys have been helping me build my 112 2.5x5ft possibly-overly-ambitious garden boxes I’m trying to have ready for planting time (which may actually be in a couple of months, or never, if this weather holds up):
They make a valiant effort, then they will often go play with the other enticing materials in the basement.
Like sawdust!:
Yes, the house is covered in sawdust.
So, what have we been doing while my camera has been MIA?
Well, in a nutshell…
Lots of colouring:
Art projects with body parts:
Playing outside (in the mix of sun and snow that has teased us for the past two weeks):
We may have snuck in a gospel lesson, some play dates with friends, and an outside excursion here and there.
But mostly, I’ve been using the boys for cheap child labour.
I pay them candy…
They build me garden boxes:
