Cabin Weekend

You've heard about Old Lady Game night - take the fun of Old Lady Game night and turn it into an entire weekend up at my cabin. 7 women, three little boys (sons of the women) and my husband. Mike was given the option of coming or staying home; he wanted to come. He had a weekend full of bonfires and and the casino with Uncle Robb. Us ladies had a weekend full of innocence; a weekend of flower pressing; going to bed early and Bible talks (if you know me at all you can tell how full of sh!+ I am) Anyways, there actually was some cookie baking done. Batch #22 1-26-12 Peanut Butter Brownie Bars Possibly too rich to handle. A fudge brownie base sprinkled with peanut butter cups and peanuts. Follow that with a topping made of chocolate chips, peanut butter, butter, rice krispies and a teaspoon of vanilla. Mike very much likes these. Another 5 smiley face recipe. He can't leave them alone. My friend Megan couldn't leave them alone either. Batch #23 1-28-12 Cherry Oatmeal Cookies These unlike the bars, I actually made at the cabin. Note, it's not as much fun making cookies when you have just one (small) cookie sheet, only a hand mixer, a small mixing bowl and you are slightly hungover. I powered through all that though and made another high ranking smiley face recipe (4 from Mike but my friend Emily gives them a 5 - she took quite a few home with her "for the ride home") This is your basic oatmeal cookie but with cherry chips in them. However, have you ever heard of cherry chips? I assumed the recipe means like chocolate chips but cherry chips. I looked; I found mint chips, cinnamon chips but no cherry chips. I reasoned that oatmeal raisin cookies is a common combination, so I bought cherry raisins - it was a successful substitution. 23 cookie recipes down - that means only 600 more to go. I think 23 recipes in span of 4 months is downright impressive. At this rate I'll get 70 done a year and be done in..... 9 years! Oy!