Easter Cookies

I had really good intentions to write this post the night before Easter when I made the Easter cookies, but after rolling out dough, cutting out 70+ flower cookies, placing them on sucker sticks, and frosting the 70 cookies, I was a little tired. Plus, as a reward for helping me frost a few cookies, I told Mike I'd go to American Reunion with me. Help me readers, I think I married a teenager! Mike doesn't like any movies. Really, he likes about 4 movies - all made in the 80's or 90's - no new movies - but American Reunion is a continuation of the original movie that he fell in love with in the 90's. To his credit, the movie was actually better than I expected. But what's up with that? Anybody know anyone else who stopped liking any movie made after their early 20's? He's the same with his music too? He can't explain it to me, so if anyone else is like that - I'd love to know the reasoning behind it. Batch #33 Almond Butter Cookie Bouquet This was a tough batch - I knew it would be a tough batch before I started, but I foolishly thought - I'm awesome at making cookies, I can whip these up in no time. Never mind the excruciating pain my neck and my shoulders have been giving me - it can't be that bad (tennis season has been especially rough on me this year - and the whole turning 29 thing - my body says it is through). These thoughts weren't actually running through my mind beforehand - it was actually more in hindsight. FYI - when you are having trouble turning your head because it is literally a "pain in the neck" it's not the best idea to make cut-out cookies that are time and labor intensive. The cookies were a huge hit. As I said, Mike helped me frost them - probably because I was hinting not at all subtly about how much pain I was in. He wrote our nieces' names on some of the cookies, he ate the mistakes, he did his best with using the new decorating container thingy I got from Cub - all in all - a pretty great guy.

Overall: We both gave them 4 smiley faces - it was the frosting that made them especially great.