It's coming down, it's coming down...

Coming out of the house to head to school this morning, we noticed that the sky promised rain.

"I hope it will be a downfall!" Jewel exclaimed.

Trying not to laugh, I said, "I think you mean downpour, honey."

Heaven forbid it's a downfall!

Sophie's Cookie Recipe - Perfect for Autumn Fun

Last Autumn, the girls and I found a great book at the library. Believing Sophie is the story of a girl wrongly accused of shoplifting and how she solves her problem. The book ends with a wonderful cookie recipe that our family loved.

Now that the weather's turning back to cool, dark nights, I think it's high time to do a little family baking. Hope your family may as well!

The recipe follows below if you want to try it out at home :)

Sophie’s Cookies
From the book Believing Sophie By Hazel Hutchins

Cream together:
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar

Mix in:
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

Lastly add:
2 cups rolled oats
1 overflowing cup of M&Ms

Stir until well mixed. The dough may be crumbly, but if you use your hands it will form easily into balls. For large cookies, the balls should be golf-ball sized or bigger. Smaller cookies are also very good.

Set cookie balls on a greased cookie sheet and flatten them gently with your fingers to a nice cookie thickness. Bake at the top of the oven at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes until a pale golden brown. They are best when cooked through but not overcooked or hard. Makes at least 1 dozen large or 3 dozen small cookies.

Enjoy!

Spooky Winds are Blowing...

Halloween is in the air! (Finally! The last few weeks we've endured temps well into the 100s!)

With the cool nip of autumn, our thoughts turn to... costumes, of course!

My older daughter Jai wants to be a spy. She's got the black leggings and turtleneck and has been collecting "spygear" for a month now.

My littler one Brenne wants to be a bat. Yes, a bat. Not a vampire, just a flying mammal. I'm not sure why but her mind is made up. She's got a great black velour leotard. But I'll have to figure out how to make some bat wings. Unless I can buy them. I haven't found any anywhere - but I hope I do. Because I'm not very handy with the making of things, especially out of cloth.

Three weeks and counting. What will you be?

Not Now

I showed my younger daughter our new blog. All she said was, "I want to play with you now. Are you done with your work?"

Kids - they're so direct!