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I was feeling pretty full of myself after organizing my bean soup jars.

So I thought we’d try doing the same thing with cookie mix, using the recipe on the back of a peanut butter/chocolate chips package. Notice the strict conformity of the ingredients. We should have quit while we were ahead.

We did manage to put together four jars of this very sad-looking mess, and I attached the following tag to the jars:

Nightmare PB Cookies

Poorly-measured mixture of dry ingredients
2 sticks butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Dump dry mixture into a large bowl. Add the other ingredients from your stash. Mix it all together, and hope it will look like cookie dough. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 11-13 minutes or until oven explodes.

Pray.

No children were injured during this project. But it was a close call.

I hope you enjoy a wonderful break with family and friends. I’ll be back for Pass the Torch Tuesday, after we dig ourselves out of the snow, and subsequently drown in hot cocoa;).

Until then, Happy Holidays!!

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(They’re doing an experiment about the respiratory system, from our McGraw-Hill Science, California Edition.)

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When my white elephant gift, for Half Pint House’s exchange, arrived in the mail from Mommy, the Human Napkin, I thought she had just regifted something, until I read her accompanying hilarious note:
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Please remember the Linking for Dollars charity effort my company is sponsoring this week.

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This weekend we had a wonderful and unseasonably warm Christmas gathering with family and friends. We watched cousins Ethan and Amanda trying to negotiate a rope swing designed for kids twice their height.

Then, as we giggled by the fire, we listened to Amanda tell Ethan, “Here, I’ll help you.”

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