Cookie update!

I thought I would find a new receipe for a good sugar cookie because I have yet to find a great one. Well I think I found one! The dough by itself is really yummy! I thought I would share, in case anyone else is looking for a yummy sugar cookie:

Easy Sugar Cookies
2 3/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. margarine
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla (I also added a smidge of butter flavoring). Stir in the flour, baking soda, and baking powder. I also put the dough in the fridge for about 30 minutes for it to chill.

Shape or roll into one inch balls.


Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.



Cool and enjoy!!


I will ice the cookies tomorrow or Wednesday night, just in time for our party on Thursday! I now just need to find a yummy icing frosting to go on the very yummy cookies!

Cookies anyone?

I'm being bad. I didn't work out last week at all because I was overworked with things from school and tonight I was about ready to fall asleep on the way home. So needless to say I do not think I am going to the gym tonight. I am however going to make cookies. Since a student transfered to another school at the end of December, my room mom also left because it was her son. Well that means I have no one in charge of getting things organized for our little parties that we have. So that means I am providing the students some little treats to have on St. Valentine's Day. One of which is going to be sugar cookie cut-outs shaped like hearts. It is a lot of work for me, but I am most calm when I bake. It is what I do when I get stressed out. So after my brocolli and cheese casserole is finished in the oven, I am off to bake some yummy sugar cookies. Plus the heat from the oven warms up my house!

And the delays keep on coming...

I am starting to wonder if we will ever have a full week of school again. Ever since we have been back from break, we have yet to go to school for a full 5 days wihtout being interrupted. So yup we are on another two hour delay for the morning! It was announced at the end of the school day today. We had a two hour delay yesterday because the fog was unbelievable due to the fact that it warmed up Monday during the day and just continued to rise during the evening. We even had thunderstorms last night! I thought I was going nuts seeing flashes of light outside.

Then today the temp dropped again and we have a lovely mixture of ice, sleet, and snow! Everybody raced out of school today and I was the only one left. Only because my principal announced that progress reports are due out tomorrow or Friday by the latest! Gee it would have been nice to have been told this Monday not the day before it was due! So I spent an extra hour and a half at school in addition to the normal hour I spend. I even left after the janitor went home for the night! She just made me promise to lock my door when I left. Gee what a comforting thought. However I did get my grades entered and the little cherubs will have progress reports for tomorrow! Go me!!!

We also had a very eventful mass today for Ash Wednesday. One of my students threw up all over the pew and the ltitle second graders jackets during the Gospel. Gee that was fun. I had to frantically gather the well students out of the pew and stick them into another pew and some were wondering about their jackets and if they should take them. I just wanted them out of the pew so I could get to her. Luckily the teacher's aide from the other third grade grabbed my sick student and took her out and to the office while I did damage control with the rest of my students. Needless to say, Father did his best to get the attention back once he was doing his homily. I think it kinda sorta worked. Oh well, that's one mass I will never forget. Along with the mass at the beginning of the school year two years ago when I fainted in front of my junior high students. Gee that was memorable. I even had the 8th grade girls so upset that they were crying. Gee It is so nice to feel loved!

Coming along

So yesterday was spent painting the last major room in Rosie's house: the living room. We thought it would take forever but low and behold it went the fastest and it only took one coat! Valspar paint from Lowes rocks! The last things we have to paint is the bathroom, paint the back entry way, window trim, and trim along the bottom of all the rooms. However we cannot paint the trim on the bottom until the wood floors have been refinished. So next weekend we are painting the bathroom, entry way, and ripping down the ceiling in the finished attic because it is falling down and insulation is being put up there. So here are some pics of the progress...enjoy!

Kitchen:






Living Room:



Rosie looking happy painting trim!



Bathroom:



Mom and Dad cutting and hanging wallboard for the bathroom:

Closed...yet again!

Yup, that's right we are closed again. So this means that I will have a wonderful, relaxing three day weekend. I am starting to think that maybe someone from the corporation would have thought to put snow days into the calendar because this happens every year. Are they not seeing a trend? Come on people we live in northern Indiana with a huge lake on the western edge that tends to drop snow like it was nothing. Duh!