Lows:
Catching more mice on sticky traps (up to 4 on ONE TRAP) then I care to know about. Seriously I'm freaked. Last night at 2am I walked down the upstairs hall to find some cough drops for becca-I flipped on the hallway light and BAM a greyish matter squeezed its fat self into this TINY pencil sized hole and up away it went through the hall cupboards and into the attic-why why WHY!??!?!? We had a professional come and set traps and other things--I swear just something I dont care to deal with.
Everyone but Jon coming down with allergies. I think the constant weather change is making it hard on everyone. Everyone I know seems to have allergies or a cold right now. Its been 80 this week and next week will be 60 and raining. Pick a season and stick with it already Mrs. Mother Earth! Last night I got to hear Becca cough (the dry hack kind) a.l.l. night l.o.n.g. How did that girl stay up half the night with her drippy nose and cough yet wake up at 7am bright and cherry and be her totally happy self all day today?! Meanwhile I've been a total witch.
Highs:
Getting the pool cleaned out AGAIN. I'm sure my neighbors (specifically on the right side of us) hate us. I really need a pool boy. A cute one. A young one. A cheap one. Okay what was I talking about again? Oh yeah my pool. It's been green for a while & I finally found some energy to get it taken care of. I swear it will stay blue for like 2 months then something else will go wrong with it. It taunts me.
Jons Bday-we did Sushi & had brownies with mint ice cream. Sadly he didn't get any gifts (too many sick kiddos). I feel like he needs a birthday redo and that this should be in my lows section. Jon is not easy to buy for. All the things he wants are SUPER technological and cost a lot-and by a lot I mean like 3k on up. And let's be real if we had an extra 3k laying around I would be buying the 3500 food storage package from Costco that I've been coveting-and call it "his gift.
Finding my secret chocolate chips at Winco of all places!! They have bins of product-I loaded up 11lbs of my favorite milk chocolate chips--HEAVEN.
Getting a new chocolate chip cookie recipe which I will be trying tonight. I will probably half the recipe though-otherwise I will be sick to my stomach snarfing on all the cookies myself! I'll even be nice and share it with you-these are from Jennifer Davis in my ward with my secrets to a good cookie at the end.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1.5 sugar
1.5 brown sugar
1 lb butter (real stuff no fakies!)
2 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon soda
2 packages of milk (cant stand semi-sweet we are a Hales milk chocolate ONLY family!)
cook 7-9 minutes at 375 degrees
The secret to a REALLY good cookie is to under cook the cookie-because it still cooks when its out of the oven. My cookies are ALWAYS super soft! Also I only use Guittard chocolate chips in my recipes. I also only use real butter-I heard that margarine is one molecule away from plastic--yeah no thanks.
Happy baking!
1 year ago
6 comments:
We're all about real butter and milk choc chips too. Jeremy is always using that "one molecule away from plastic" spiel too. :)
oh the almost plastic thing? really? that is scary! glad I use butter!
I will have to remember this recipe is on here, when I bake again!
the mice thing is nasty. So sorry!
We caught a bunch on those things and it was soooo gross. Then Jason would feel bad that they were still alive, so he would put them in plastic bags and bang them on the concrete!! Sooo gross! I hope they go away soon for you!
Sorry, I have to differ with you. I think my cookie recipe is the best one out there. Ha!
Just a hint...get a cat! If you guys are allergic, maybe you could "borrow" a cat until the problem is under control. Those mice really take the "multiply and replenish the earth" thing seriously.
Your cookies sound so yummers!
Hey, so have you tried the cookies? I have to make some today for some thank you's.
How's the mice problem? I say get a cat to. They really do go away with the cats. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Also, get that foam stuff and go around the outside of your house with it and fill in all of the little cracks and wholes.
I always use real butter, and it must be unsalted. As for chocolate chips, I prefer the semisweet chips. I don't really have an issue with mice, as I have a couple of cats who are great mousers.
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