Cookie Memories

I have spent the morning making the EASIEST cookies in this world (next to slice and bake of course), and am totally impressed with myself!! They look like the picture and if I do say so myself taste REALLY good! I will post pics and the recipe tomorrow after I get everything packaged up for the cookie swap!

This is the first year of the three years our Sunday School class has been doing this that my cookies have turned out correctly. I was thinking back to our first one three years ago....Sam was 10 months old and was teething which meant he also had an ear issues. I spent weeks pouring over internet cookie site as well as my own cookbooks and had found some spectacular recipe (right now I don't even remember what it was). So I bought all the ingredients and they were a BIG FLOP!!! So I regrouped and decided to make some toffee.....That ended with flames shooting up from my stove!! So ever discouraged I went to the grocery store and bought oreos and this is the recipe that I attatched:

Uh-O Cookies

1 Tired Mama

1 Teething Baby

1 Cookie Recipe gone terribly wrong

1 Scorched batch of Toffee

1 Insanely messy kitchen

Take in to account all of the above, say a quick prayer for patience and run as quickly as possible for the cookie aisle at the closest grocery store. Thank God for the good people at Nabisco!!! Worry about the kitchen later.

When I read over that this morning tears sprang to my eyes because the rest of the story is that the Friday night before the swap was our Christmas party and my mom kept Sam. When we got home (around 11) she was up with him and he had over 102 fever.....I had taken him to the doctor the previous Tuesday and his ears were ok, but the doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics "just in case." Well I didn't get them filled and so we ended up sick. I can remember flying to Walgreens that night to get the prescription filled feeling inadequate, incompetent and perfectly LOUSY! As I am thanking God that we now had a 24hour pharmacy the snotty pharmacist bothers to tell me that the prescription had been written on Tuesday (three days ago). Not sure what that had to do with filling my script?!?!? That was the last straw....I pointed my very weary and upset finger at him and informed him that I did not need his help feeling like a bad mother to PLEASE fill my script so that I could get home to my sick baby. I swear to this day anytime I have to get something filled at Walgreens that guy is the pharmacist on duty!!! I think they flagged me in the computer as "one of those mothers."

Last year Sarah was barely four weeks old so I took oreos and chex mix, the running joke is that if your cookies don't turn out or you don't have time...just bring oreos!! So thankfully this year is going better! I have had two happy kids although Sam is asking me every five minutes when Ninnie is going to get here......although it has worked GREAT as leverage to get him to mind today!!