Cards, appointments and dinner.

We received three more Christmas cards in the mail today, including ones from greencow and gardenmama - thank you! The 'Card Wall' is now effectively covering the left side and has stretched across the archway to the second wall. I'm so excited about the "traveling" that it's doing! I took a moment to count the cards once I was finished hanging up today's arrivals, and there are now 42 cards on the wall, plus a few included pictures, and any accompanying newsletters are tucked safely in the decorative bucket reserved just for them.

*glee*

Philip had a dental appointment this afternoon, and he picked up A.J. on the way home. He dropped him off just now, and now he's back out to finish some paperwork at the squadron. I'm thinking of making a big fried chicken dinner tonight, since it will be the first night in a good while that he's been home at dinner time. :-)

Cookie surprises.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORI!

Best wishes to you, fuzzytrouble! :-)

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I'm in the middle of making Swirled Surprise Cookies for tomorrow's cookie exchange during our Parents at Home meeting. I've never made these before, and I hadn't planned on making them for this. I'd been planning all week on making Apple Spice Drops, but I changed my mind at the very last second and decided to maybe do both. However, the dough for these first cookies took over twice as long to get cold enough as the recipe said, so I'm running behind now, and I'm not sure I'll get to the second cookies. We'll see.

I'm making excellent headway on the moodtheme today. I've got about half of the moods pinned down now, but I'm still combing through to see if I'm missing something really great for some of the other ones. I can't wait to get this theme up and running!

*timer goes off for cookies*

Ha! I found out what the "surprise" part of the recipe is. I baked this first batch of cookies for 8 minutes, and they are perfect. The recipe calls for 15 minutes. I'd have been SURPRISED with burned cookies if I'd believed the recipe!