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These are so easy to make. Just go get your favorite sugar cookie recipe & make it. (mine is from Joy of Cooking & includes cream cheese which makes a wonderful texture with these)   Then divide it into 4 sections. My cookie dough recipe makes 48 cookies so I divided it into 8 batches. This was a tad excessive. 4 or 5 would have been fine. Get your hands on some gel food coloring. It has to be gel if you want the vibrant colors. The drop kind of food coloring is pretty much useless for this. The colors are pale & it changes the texture slightly. How much gel? Just this much. Dip the toothpick into the container, swirl it around, pull it out, stick it in one of the dough batches, swirl it around and then stir the dough until the color is spread through out. Chill the doughs in plastic wrap in the fridge for a couple hours. Then divide it into small sections with a butter knife Take 3-4 different colors & put them together. You want a lump ...

Havoc has been sick. Wednesday last week he complained of a headache & vague muscle pain so we gave him some Tylenol. Problem solved! Temporarily anyway. Thursday the school calls around 10:30a to report Havoc has a fever of 101.9 & a cough & needs to come home. DH was in the vicinity so he picked him up, which was good because I received neither of the two calls the school made to my phones nor the follow up call DH made informing me he was picking Havoc up. Have I mentioned technology, especially telecommunications, hates me? School policy is no one can come to school within 24 hours of having a fever & since they discovered the fever, they know he’s not supposed to be back Friday. I would have totally sent him as he had no fever the rest of the day, nor that night, nor in the morning Friday. Friday night he did spike an impressive 102.6 fever that the Tylenol totally took out. Saturday he was fine. He was his high energy self. We went to the Air ...

I have a lot of cookbooks Plus two shelves in the living room, and a second stack of magazines on the other side of the island. That is a lot of meal ideas, and honestly they are pretty much useless to me shut up in those books where I cannot easily flip through the ones I like when I am doing my meal planning. So I have been slowly but surely (since 2004) moving the recipes I do like to my card catalog to save me time. My goal is to have all the books & Cook’s Illustrated in the card catalog and all the other magazine recipes torn out & put in a binder First I mark up the cookbooks Then I go through and copy the basic details to a card And I make notes on the card when I make the recipe. (I grew up with library books. You are absolutely not allowed to write in those & to this day I am afraid to make notes in books I own) Now I have to go through that stack of Cook’s Illustrated magazines (4 years worth) from the second photo & do the same thin...

The boys’ Cub Scout pack did a day trip over to the Air & Space Museum in Dulles, VA. (4 hours in a car total. I deserve a badge myself) It’s an extension of the one on the Mall in DC. It’s not as big but stuffed full of planes. This Is a Benoist-Korn Type XII. It was built in May 1912. It is a two place biplane. This is a WWII bomber. I failed to note the specs of it – like the model name. This is a B29 Super fortress. Specifically, this is the Enola Gay. My MIL riveted the mid sections of B29s at a factory in Maryland or possibly NJ in WWII. (MIL worked in three different aircraft factories during the war) and this is the Space Shuttle Enterprise, so ringed around with other, earlier space craft that I could not get the angle I wanted for a photo of it. And Mayhem got a chance to work the controls of a Cessna. For more Weekly Winners please visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom . Thanks for stopping by!

I’ve not been feeling the scrapping mojo much this month but I did manage to get these two done this week from prompts for shimelle’s Blogging for Scrapbookers class. The little tags read “$60 spent for domain name” ($10 a year) and “including Iran, Egypt & Nigeria” (they were the countries that made me go “really?”) The journaling is about how I am struggling with not taking photos everyday & considering restarting it for my birthday

A list. I generally refer to them as the Voices in My Head. You probably have Voices too, you just may call them by different names, maybe you hear your mom’s voice in your head every time you look at new shoes. “And where will you be wearing THOSE?” or maybe you simply do not acknowledge them at all, but they are there. You may only notice them after the fact, like when you are cleaning your closet and find a pair of really cute but really impractical sandals with 3 inch heels and beading and you wonder “What was I thinking when I bought these? They go with nothing in my wardrobe or in my life actually?” In my case *I* was not thinking anything. Vanity was thinking how great I’d look in them & a sundress (that I don’t own) at a pool party (that never happened). Or maybe you come home from grocery shopping & as you put your purchases away you find a tube of Sun Dried Tomato Paste and you wonder “How the heck did that get in there?” with  sudden flash of  mem...

Look what finally arrived yesterday! And by finally I mean it was pre-ordered on July 20, 2010 with a late Nov release date. Which made it perfect for Mayhem’s Xmas present. Then I was sent notice that the release date would be late Dec. Ok, could still make it for Xmas and if not, well, it can be a birthday present. The nice thing about Mayhem’s January birthday is that delayed Xmas presents can easily become birthday presents. Then I was sent a notice of the release being moved to late Jan. Fine! So it might be a day or so late as a birthday present, still it’s fine. Then I was sent notice of a late March release date. Really LucasArts? Late March? Really?  For something expected out 5 months earlier? How poorly planned was this game release anyway? But at long last the Big Brown Truck of Joy arrived with the game & within minutes the little gamers we absorbed in it. They are actually playing together, which is unusual. Mayhem is the gamer & h...