Whoohoo, summer vacation! I'm not sure who's more excited about the start of summer, kids or teachers. This post starts with Memorial weekend (technically summer had not started as I still had two weeks left of school after the weekend, but you know..)
Memorial Weekend Adventures:
Took on my nephew Brandon in tennis. He has now beat his mom in tennis and felt like he was ready to take me on - as the match wore on; he asked if he could have some of my water. As he explained, he didn't bring any because he thought he'd get me over with rather quickly. You'll be glad to know I was victorious.
Joey discovered sand, and sand toys.
Also, had his first s'more. As he ate it, he said Mmmmm, the whole time.
Also, ate some cookies:
#147 White Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies
This is the cookie I was planning to make for my mother-in-law for when she visited; but she asked for substitutions. NO COOKIES FOR YOU! She still got cookies, just not this cookie. I don't feel I can do substitutions; or else the judging could be all off; it'd mess up the whole project. So this cookie, with hazelnuts and white chocolate chips went up to the cabin for Memorial weekend. By the way MIL - your son rated these a 5 : )
#148 Apple-Oat Breakfast Treats
I broke a rule; I doubled this recipe. Normally I never double because if I need more cookie than what a batch makes, I normally just make a batch of another cookie (crossing more off the list). However, at the cabin, for memorial weekend, my family of 18, does a big brunch where everyone makes something. This cookie only makes 10 servings and it's the only breakfast type cookie in the book; so I needed to double it. The cookies were quite large; oatmeal cookie with apple pie filling in the middle. The kids mostly just licked up the pie filling and left the cookie. But my Joey ate the whole thing.
#149 Double Chocolate Cookies
Our neighborhood does a block party at the beginning of summer so everyone can connect again after the long winter. We walked over between the rainstorms of the day (MN sure seems to be having rainy springs lately, or has it always been that way), and I was immediately questioned about what I'm doing in my yard. We added three rain gardens late last summer with river rock swales between the gardens so that hopefully, this year, we don't have a frog/moss/duck habitat in half the backyard like we did for half of the summer last year. Unfortunately, due to probably designer error, we have a nice little duck pond; it's not draining as perfectly as it should. Updates on that project to come, I'm sure.
Anyways, Joey had fun going up and down the neighbor's porch steps and thought it was a great game for me to catch him over and over and over again as he tried to go in the street. And, Mike was happy because I brought home quite a few of the 9 dozen double chocolate cookies that I brought for the pot-luck (that both Mike and I and probably Joey too, rated 5 smiley faces.
#150 Chunky Mocha cookies
Okay, now I can say Yay, summer. I was told that all teachers have at least one of the two vices: they either drink coffee, or they smoke. I think you could add, they like treats. Treats (chocolate, cookies, cake, candy, you name it) put in the teacher's lounge at 7:30am, will be gone before 9:30. Now I don't drink coffee or smoke - what does that say about me as a teacher I wonder, but I figured I'd make a batch of coffee like cookies for the end of the year teacher party. Unfortunately, with a principal leaving, 5th grade completion ceremony, and retirement happening, there was a lot of cake during the school day and at the end of the year party. Plus, other people brought some treats, so I brought many of these mocha cookies home. Mike and I rated them a 3, but other people told me they're really good. So how do we include a rating for that - because at the end of all this, we will take all the five smiley faced cookies and do the March Madness style tournament to find the best cookie, however, both Mike and I do not like coffee, maybe this cookie really is a five? What to do?
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