Here is the book I finished this month.
We wanted to try a sugar cookie recipe for the upcoming holiday seasons where being able to bring themed cookies would come in handy. Eden and I had some fun:
We looked on Allrecipes.com and found this one…
2 cups white sugar
1 ½ cups butter, softened
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Gather all ingredients.
Beat sugar and softened butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.
Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least 1 hour (or overnight).
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly dust a work surface with flour. Roll out dough to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thickness.
Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack and cool completely before decorating.
Enjoy!
My family gave me a fig tree a few years ago. Every year it gives us SO much fruit! This week I decided to try to make fig jam an and it turned out so good!
3 lbs figs (ends cut off and then quartered)
1/3 cup orange or lemon juice
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1. Combine figs and sugar off the heat. Let sit for 30 minutes.
2. Combine all ingredients over medium heat. Once it starts to boil, lower heat and stir.
3.Allow it to cook and stir from 45-1 hour. Once thickened, either use an immersion blender or pour ingredients into blender and blend until smooth to what consistency you choose.
4. Place in jar and refrigerate for up to 3 weeks.
Eden has an entire set up for doing her own nails. Sometimes she spoils me and does my nails and it’s so sweet. This last week we watched Gilmore Girls and she did my nails. This is one of the many reasons it’s fun to be her mom…
Kit and I love our date days on Fridays when the kids are in school. Last Friday was our first one of the year. We watched premier league soccer, made a trip to Costco and ate left over enchiladas from a recipe of Kit’s best friend and room mate’s mom from college. Such a chill day but so nice! With Kit being in Australia, I’m flying solo today and missing him even more…
Today Kit leaves for Australia for 10 days. He's accompanying our friend Glenn as Glenn speaks at Alpha Australia conferences in multiple locations throughout the country. I’m so excited for him to have this opportunity but my goodness we will miss him. Australia, be good to these guys!
Eden and I have had some fun with jewelry making and so decided to try an idea for bead patterns:using my family’s names I’d create a bead pattern that utilized Morse Code:
In college, Kit’s room mate, best friend, best man in our wedding played basketball for our university. His mom would make chicken enchilada casserole FOR THE ENTIRE TEAM in the RV that they would travel in. I decided to pull out the recipe and my family LOVED it!
This last weekend, both kids had tournaments and they played so well! I worked Saturday and Kit was working Sunday so it felt like a juggling act to get everyone where they needed to be as well us updating each other on how the games were going. Kit knocked it out of the park with photos!
It’s been a big week! This weekend we are heading into a full weekend where both kids have a local tournament and I’m working Saturday and Kit is working Sunday… We are crossing our fingers everyone gets where they need to go!
These kids had their first day of school this week. I’m just SO proud of them!!! It’s such an honor to be their mom. It’s going to be a great year for this sophomore and 8th grader!
