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"It is one thing to know Jesus Christ loves us and another thing to realize it.. Everything has been given to us by the Father in Jesus. All we need now is to experience what we already possess. The most precious moments of prayer consist in letting ourselves be loved by the Lord." -Brennan Manning

gingerbread cookies

Have you ever heard the phrase, "But Mom, I just want to stay home and bake cookies with you." Well that's exactly what i did. I just had the gingerbread mix. So my mom and i went to a few grocery stores to find cookie cutters, sprinkles, frosting, eggs and butter. Although we ended up buying much more than that. Anyways, after we got home it was like 6pm already, (and we didn't end till like 11pm). So i started mixing the cookie stuff. btw ive never really made cookies, so this was kind of a challenging first for me. I usually jus mix the stuff and my mom would always do the rest. 

The cookie dough was too sticky and mushy to do any cutouts. And we realized we didnt have any flour, which was pretty important. We put it in fridge to solidify a bit, but the oven was already good to go. My mom found lemon cake mix, so we ended up using that for flour. We made christmas trees, snowmen, stars, hearts, gingerbread men, and bears. Some of them came out really.. unique. I think we made about 70 cookies for my class and to give out. The kitchen quickly became a mess. Baking cookies was much harder than i thought.

Then today it took the kids like 3 minutes to decorate them and to gobble them up. I'm glad they came out good and everyone enjoyed them. i love gingerbread, but man it was way too much work! tomorrow we're going to Chuck E Cheese's for a field trip! So that'll be fun. And then i get two weeks off! whoo!