Just as well

Making cookies is so much chaos fun

with versions 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

For cookie cutter placement you need a plan

Owen says, "You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!"

"Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen... twenty!"

Zane, I think you've eaten plenty.


Now it's time to play

We left the frosting for another day.

Here are the boys waiting anxiously to start.

Decorating cookies with many small children is definitely an art.

Zane licked/ate everything in sight.

Kate made sure each one was "just right."

"It won't sprinkle anymore!"

No, my life is never a bore!

We frosted 6 dozen cookies for teacher plates!

That first batch left 6 dozen others for home that don't taste that great.

But the kids thought they tasted swell.

I didn't. But that's just as well.

Snow Ice Cream

4-5 cups of fresh snow
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk

Super Yummy

A Dozen Days

The kids and I made some Christmas treats the other day. Here's the recipe.

Tackling Christmas cookies another day. They were great helpers.

Enjoy this little clip of life with my MSC (many small children).



Is it bad that I totally rely on my 6 year old when figuring out how old my infant is?

understatement

Eric: What did you do today?

Me: I made a little spaghetti

So I went a little crazy the other day and whipped up 8 pans of baked spaghetti and pasta bakes to freeze to give away and one for us for dinner that night.

I've never made that much food at one time in my life.

It wasn't too bad.

Dirtied the pots and pans only once, browned the meat all at once, boiled the pasta all at once, got out all the ingredients only one time.

It wasn't too bad.

I may try this again sometime.

Cookies

Version 3.0 loved to roll.

"It on my shirt!"

1.0 and 2.0 just wanted desert.

after I realized

maybe

I

should do the frosting

decorating went

great




in the end we had

112 cookies for our neighbors' plates

of course taste testing

is the best part.

these crazy precious moments

will always be in my heart.

Goodies

Great kid-friendly activity.

You will need:

• Circle Pretzels
• Hershey Kisses (2 bags)
• Christmas M&Ms (1 bag)
• Wax Paper
• Cookie sheets
• Many Small Children

Heat oven to 200. Unwrap Kisses and put in center of pretzels. Melt in oven for 4-5 minutes. Push M&Ms into the melted kisses. Cool in refrigerator.

Lunch Much?

Sandwich monsters the kids and I created.

A batch of freshly made baby food for Zaner while they ate their one-eyed monsters.