{Notes From The Kitchen}

After a busy weekend and a busy week last week we did not leave the house today. At all. As a matter of fact,  the kids stayed in their pajamas all day and I only got out of mine to shower and then put clean ones back on. We all need days of going nowhere and doing nothing and it was much needed today. It was another dreary day which gave me the perfect excuse to bake something. I really need to go to the store but I did have everything I needed for chocolate chip cookie bars so that's what we made. I really need a new cookie recipe though, something different...oatmeal cookies maybe. I don't think I have ever made them.

I would love to hear what your favorite cookies are, we really need to branch out over here, try something new. Do you bake? Cook? Love it? Hate it?

I do like to bake, actually I enjoy it. But cooking? Not so much. I think I might enjoy it a little bit more if the kids were more adventurous and didn't turn up their noses when I do try something new. It is so disappointing to go to the trouble to fix dinner just for them to claim how disgusting it is. It really makes me appreciate the fact that my mom cooked every night for us when I was growing up. Big meals, good meals. And now I should probably call and apologize to her for claiming some of her meals were disgusting.....well, I do still hate goulash, but the rest was good. Sorry mom!

Wednesday Is For Baking::

 

 The kids love baking so I promised them we would make cookies today. Wyatt is the expert egg cracker and Charlotte loves to pour in the vanilla and then proceeds to smell it for five minutes...every single time. There is nothing like fresh cookies right out of the oven with a glass of milk--but not for me, I didn't have one (good job, Amy!). The kids each had one though while they watched The Flinstones and argued about whether or not there really used to be cars you could push with your feet. Ha!

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Today we visited the ice skating rink in hopes of getting to watch people actually ice skate but no one was there. We're going to try and go back another time (Charlotte really wants to try and skate!) but we did get to watch the Zamboni, have a snack and ride the elevator. I love how easily amused my kids are.