Monthly Archives: December 2007

Dec 19

White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

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Last week I made a batch of White Chocolate Apricot Oatmeal Cookies from my Hershey’s cookbook, and they were so delicious.  I decided to split the batter after I added the White Chocolate Chips, but before I added in the dried fruit. I ended up making one batch of White Chocolate Apricot, and one batch of White Chocolate Cranberry. For each batch I added in 1/4 cup of chopped dried fruit. I also use a melon baller as my cookie scoop, that way I get bite sized cookies, and it makes a few more too.

The White Chocolate Cranberry were my favorite, but I think this recipe would work with just about any dried fruit and chip combination. I thought about making a Dark Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal cookie, or how about a White Chocolate Blueberry Cookie? Now I’m getting hungry 🙂

How is your Christmas baking going? Happy Baking 😉

Dec 19

Todays Cleaning Might Have to Wait

I was doing so good yesterday, I even got a little ahead on the Christmas cleaning. This morning, I woke up with a migraine at 2:00 a.m., and it is still with me. I’ve taken some medicine with a large cup of coffee. Thade got chocolate milk with breakfast, to keep him a little quieter. Dylan is happily snacking on Sweet Potato Puffs, so at the moment he is slightly quiet, which really helps. How I wish I could crawl back into bed and start all over again, minus the migraine.

Dec 19

Thanks Hubby

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Guess what my hubby brought home today? Two huge 2008 Calendars, I love them, and him too 🙂 He got me one large desk-top calendar, and one to go on the wall. I’m so excited, because now I can start menu planning, and party planning for next year.

Dec 18

First Batch of Christmas Cookie Plates

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I found these cute paper Snowman Plates at Walgreens 2 for $1.00, it fit my budget, and made my Christmas Cookie Plates easy to assemble.

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Last Friday the boys and I delivered three dozen cookies to the hospital, and three dozen cookies to our Doctor’s office. I also had a dozen left to take over to our neighbor’s house.

Thade had so much fun taking the cookies around, and he told everyone “Very Christmas” 😉 We had talked about saying “Merry Christmas”, but I guess he heard “Very Christmas”. Thade even got a Candy Cane from Susan (our favorite receptionist) in exchange for the cookies, he was thrilled.

On the way to the car Thade was proudly carrying his Candy Cane, and we were talking about sharing and giving to others during the Holidays. He turned to me and said “Mom it feels good to share, because you get Candy Canes.” He is just too cute sometimes. I’m glad he felt good about sharing, and he was pretty pleased about that Candy Cane too 😉

Dec 18

We Have Pictures!!!

Thanks again to my Mom for helping out today. We all had a fun day, and we finally got the Christmas pictures picked up and home 🙂 Thank goodness, now it is time to cut them, and get them into the Christmas cards.

The boys were pretty good today too, we had lots of errands to do. We had to go and get a tail light fixed on hubby’s car, a trip to visit hubby at work, Wal-Mart (out of town) to pick up the pictures, Mc Donald’s for a snack and to feed Dylan, and then to the gas station for some M&M’s.  Thade had been so good, so we all split a bag of Shrek Themed M&M’s so good.

I even got a little bit of cleaning in, but there is always more that needs to be done. By the time that we made it back into town I decided not to mess up the kitchen one more time, and just call out for Pizza. Thade was thrilled 🙂 me too, no dishes 😉