This Just In

Okay, so Andrea and I were supposed to have a craft room cleanup competition/challenge and the deadline is today…and I haven’t even started.? I’ve done scads of other housework and baked cookies with my son but have not touched this monster.? I really need to…and yet it remains undone.? I don’t think that it’s because it’s so overwhelming, I literally just don’t feel like doing it, so I haven’t.? The goals I set for myself for January include cleaning this bad boy, so I think I’m just kind of leaning on that…”Oh I have till the end of the month, it can wait another day”. Do you ever run into that situation yourself? Putting things off till the last possible second?

So the cookies I baked with Evan are from a baking kit he got for Christmas.? The Wizard Magic Cookie Kit by Sassafrass Enterprises was a total hit with my little man.? It had it all…cookie dough that turns blue when you add the water; a very generous portion of purple “magic sprinkles”, and of course a wand to make the magic happen.? The only ingredients you add are butter and water…it was easy for Evan to do, although I had to mix the dough toward the end because it got pretty stiff.? The kit makes about two dozen cookies and they taste good too!

Sassafrass offers so many other baking kits for kids, I will be ordering more in the future.? I picked this one up at a local cooking shoppe, but a vastly larger selection can be found online at their website.? They even offer refill kits to go with the original that you purchase for just $6.95.? This company is?AWESOME, check them out for some fun in the kitchen with your children.?? Speaking of awesome, check out the pics of the cookies by Evan & Mom.

The caffeine monster reared it’s ugly head yesterday…I was out of Diet Pepsi *gasp* and had zero caffeine…ooooh was I ever irritable!? Thankfully the friend I was spending time with was very understanding and assured me that I was still a decent human being, cranky or not!? I finally made it to the gas station and got a fountain pop (can I get a drum of Diet Pepsi please??!) and the difference was night and day…I was like a vampire getting a blood fix.? This makes me think that I should break my caffeine addiction, but right now that’s just a thought.? I’m content for now to slug down water and Diet Pepsi with reckless abandon.

I had volunteer time again at Evan’s school today…I coached as many kids as I could in two hours in writing their numbers 0-30.? Prior to this I had lunch with Evan in the cafeteria…school pizza is soooo not what I remember…I don’t know if it’s because I’m grown up now and have had more food experiences, or if they’ve changed the recipe, but yuck, I didn’t like it.? Most of the food at the school cafeteria is pretty good…but this was just icky.? Evan on the other hand loves it, go figure!

Until next time,

S.

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