Making Cookies, Chocolate Chip

Well, it is that time of the year again, the time for baking homemade cookies. When the weather turns cold, there is no better time to bake homemade cookies than in the Fall and Winter months. For one thing, who really wants to leave the home for a sweet treat and homemade is always better. Another good thing about eating homemade cookies is the ingredients. When people buy store bought cookies, if they look on the ingredients, they will see a lot of preservatives and ingredients they would not want in their bodies, much less their kids bodies.

When cookies, or cakes, for that matter are made at home, all the ingredients are right in from of the baker. Let's see, there is butter(real butter), flour, sugar(real sugar), salt, vanilla, brown sugar, eggs, et. al. See all ingredients we know and love.

Hmm, what shall I bake next? A chocolate cake, vanilla cake, brownies, Christmas cookies! Christmas cookies, of course! I have all the ingredients and cutters, I will make some this weekend. My twins love to help me frost them. In fact, I have been looking on a recipe website for homemade frosting. I need to make chocolate and vanilla...

Yes, the baking season has arrived so make sure all your 'kitchen staples' are in your pantry.
 

Lifetime Garden Box: Day One-1-

My parents has asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said nothing. Then one day I was on Amazon looking for something I could grow my veggies in and came across this Lifetime Garden Box. The box is on the left sidebar. This is awesome and it took nothing to set up. I loved when it arrived. The box was lightweight and was easy to carry to the backyard, open up and take out all the parts.

The best thing about this garden box is it will not rot and it has this tent over the soil, with a zipper. I am slowly growing veggies right now and once they get big enough to transplant, they are going to on into my new Lifetime Garden Box.

Anyway, back to what I was going to talk about. When the box arrived, I showed my twins and we opened it up together in the backyard. They had a blast cutting open the box, sitting on the box, pulling out the parts for the box and oh yes, playing in the box. Oh yeah, even at 7 years old, my twins still love playing in and on boxes. Are you kids still like this?

After all the parts were laid out, I began reading the directions.

 

 

 

 



 

 

My twins, they love doing projects and this is just another one for them to tackle. I am wondering if they will be this way when they get older. This is what we accomplished after opening the box. Then we came back before the sun went down to put the puzzle together.

 

Formal Dresses at Affordale Prices

Owning a formal dress is important. One never knows when they will need to wear a formal dress. With all the events in life, a young lady will need at least one formal dress in their closet. These are just some events in life where formal dresses might be necessary:

• Wedding
• Prom
• Evening
• Cocktail
• Homecoming
• Graduation
• Formal

This list can go on, but these are just several events in life where a formal dress is, more likely than not, to be worn. Formal dresses come in a variety of colors and styles to. This makes looking for a formal dress exciting. It is nice to have more than one choice when looking for a formal dress.

The color of formal dresses range from white, green, blue, yellow, pink, red and purple. These colors are all popular, especially when they come in the perfect design.  Color is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to clothing. Once the gown color is choose, it is easy to choose the design. They both go hand in hand. Some gowns are floor length, short to the knees, strapless, v-neck, sheath, princess style, mermaid, ball gown and many others.

Formal dresses of today are far removed from dresses forty to fifty years ago. As the times change, so to do the formal dress style, design and colors.