Saturday Cookie Day

Here Kiwi and I sit once again in a semi-quiet household, he  is talking to me about the strange human that we here yesterday and I told him that is Aunt Kim. 

Now it is on to day two of cookie baking, Michelle and Kim knocked it out of the park yesterday and today I think Brittany is going to be joining us for the days festivities. It was a lot of fun yesterday, I was working and the girls were baking all day. I'll post the pictures when it is all done, unlike years prior Michelle is doing a number of different cookies. 

What's on my agenda for the day? I'll be heading over to the Laundromat to dry clothes, Michelle will be baking cookies and I may make a trip up to Harry's to stock up the freezer and get some sausage for Christmas. We're about out out of the good hamburger, so I'll get some of that and some of his Hot Sausage. 

WVU's December Commencement is today. Most of the students are out of town until the first of the year, so after today traffic will not be as heavy as it is at other parts of the year, The next few weeks are the only real time that the University actually shuts down. During the Summer there are two summer sessions as well as events going on all Summer, this is when everyone goes home. I know when I was working at the NRAC this was the only time of the year the Master's and PHD students from other countries would actually go home for any length of time. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Christmas Cookie Day!!!!!!

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!

Today is the first of three cookie days for Michelle, she did Banana and Banana Nut Bread Last weekend as well as home made fudge, this weekend Michelle and Kim will be assembling the 50 lbs of sugar, 50 lbs of flour and a whole bunch of butter into out favorite cookies. Kim has volunteered to help and we are excited for her to come over and bake cookies. Yes there will be my all time favorite cookie, the Butterscotch Cookies that Michelle makes. She will be making : Butterscotch, Chocolate Chip, Spritz, Strawberry, Orange, Peanut Butter with Hershey;s Kisses, Shortbread, Wedding Balls, and no Bakes. She kind of created her own recipe years ago and everyone loves the Buttersccotch. Yes we will be sharing them, I know my Mom loves the Butterscotch ones, as does everyone else. 

I am working today, but Kim and Michelle will be in charge of the kitchen, provided Michelle doesn't get called for Jury Duty. They are both scheduled to be off today and with one agenda in mind. Baking Cookies!!!!!

I know we are all looking forward to today and sharing the fruits of their labors. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit, waaay to early to wake up even for me, wide awake in the early AM suffering from what appears to be insomnia. I've been up for a couple of hours and am wide awake, which is rare for me at this time of the morning.

We ended up doing Christmas Shopping yesterday instead of doing our Christmas baking which we are putting off until today. Ran to Tanger Outlets and a few other places to get some Christmas Gifts.

Hayley and Josh stopped by last night and brought the newly groomed Gracie with her. She's not one who likes to sit still, but I did  manage to grab this shot of her.

Hayley did manage to put a few pictures up of her Christmas Tree. I think it looks really good, and the Santa Hat that sits atop of her tree was one that her Dad used to wear. We used to put it on top of Rich's ashes on our Mantle, but I think it has found a new home. I think her tree looks great, and we are also appreciative of her and Josh coming over when we were at work and decorating ours.

Today will actually be our baking day here at the household. Like I said yesterday we are not going to over do it this season, but it'll be nice to have some of my favorite cookies that I wait all year for in the house. It's just a chocolate chip cookie with butterscotch chips instead of Chocolate Chips. I love them and they are my all time favorite cookie.

Have a great day.

Cookie Day Part II

Yes back by popular demand, the sequel to Cookie day will take place today. I lost count on how many Christmas Cookies Michelle made yesterday, but now we're going to get into our chocolate chip and our banana nut breads today.

To say our oven got a good workout yesterday would be an understatement, I think we went a little overboard on the butterscotch cookies that I love so much. I had to run out yesterday to get more flour and butter.

We have a tray of butterscotch for Arron who also loves them, but he was busy in Fairmont yesterday as University High beat Fairmont Senior 82-67. I would imagine he'll find his way over here today.

Time to finish up our Christmas baking today. Next weekend we have traveling, Company dinner and shopping on the agenda so we'll be pretty busy.

It's a Cookie Day

I love this time of the year, I think it is a day that I actually look forwards to once the last Christmas cookie from the previous year is eaten. Today is Christmas Cookie Day 2012.

I remember our first one that we had here, we went wild and bought all kinds of stuff to make them. Hayley was still here, and she will be coming today to assist, and we had a huge snowstorm in Morgantown that day. That was the year we had not one but two pretty bad storms, and cookie day was the first one.

There will be no gingerbread houses this year, unless the kids want to do one, I did one that first year and it really wan't that appealing to look at. My decoration skills are a little bit to be desired, I just lack a whole lot of creativity that some people have. It's a gift, either you have it or you do not and I am one of those people wjho do not have it.

I do get a little treat for breakfast this morning, a co-worker brought me in a little bit of deer hot sausage, I'll be frying it up this morning for breakfast with my eggs. Michelle hates deer meat, that just means there is more of it for me.

Have a great day, and stand by with the insulin. =)