Brownie Badges

Maddy cooked her first meal tonight, using a REAL recipe.  In the past her "cooking" has been a bit more, shall we say, creative.  She has previously not been shackled to the confines of a recipe.

But not tonight!  She picked a recipe out of a cookbook (Jean Pare "Kids Cooking" circa 1997) and followed it.  Her inspiration?  Her Chef Badge for Brownies!  Yay.  

By the way, her meal was very good.  She made Jiffy Pizzas and even made the sauce "from scratch". True story. 

In other news:

It's CRAFTING SEASON!  Last Sunday I spent an afternoon at Chandra's working on my Woodland Series of hot pads.  That's right kids - I'm branching out in my hotpad mania.  Now I'm making owls and foxes (didn't get the fox done, ran out of sweater.  Must. Go. Shopping.)

These guys aren't done, just cut and pinned.  Need to sit and sew.  If I get all my chores done tonight, that will be my reward.  

Ok, so these chores aren't getting themselves done.  Better get cracking.  Top priority:  LAUNDRY.  Why? B/c there are things in there that I need to pack.  

Pack?  Why Jenn, where are you going? 

I'm off to SEATTLE for the weekend (like you do).  Stephanie was doing the hour countdown, but I'll make it easy and say TWO SLEEPS.  

My Seattle Wish List includes (but is not limited to)

- grown up dinner with Steph and Kathy

- shoe shopping at Discount Show Warehouse (aka DSW)

- 1 hour in Hobby Lobby (or more if I can get away with it)

- 2 mugs from Starbucks (one for my friend and one for me)

So.  Time to get the chores done!

bye.