Cookies, cookies, EVERYWHERE!

I attended the 6th annual Keller/Diamond cookie party a few weeks ago. It is a fun and social event, but also are a great way to walk away with many different kinds of cookies without all the headache of baking them! You bake 6 dozen cookies (all the same kind), then you bring them to the party and we all trade! This year I was smart...I decided that this would FINALLY be the year that I would package the cookies up for all the teachers and bus drivers as Holiday gifts!! On the way home I decided to sample a few to make sure that they were "OK" to give as gifts...the ones I tried were great and passed inspection, but I couldn't be sure about the rest...10 cookies later, I was home. The kids followed suit, and just "tested a few"...within two days nothing but crumbs and a few sore tummies remained...so when cookie party invite #2 came, I accepted...I still needed teacher gifts...so I once again baked several dozen cookies...went and had a great time with friends...laughing and cutting up while the clock ticked away...Uh Oh! I gotta go!...I grabbed about 2 dozen cookies and took off...phew! just enough to give a few teachers some wonderful cookies...after sampling 5 cookies, (again, to make sure they were good enough to give as gifts) I arrived home. The next morning I sent the kids off to school, and had breakfast (two very large, wonderfully delicious, caramel brownie cookie bars from the party!) A cookie here and a cookie there, and cookies for dinner...I noticed very few left, asked the kids who ate them all..they said "you did mom!" ...guilty, I ate them all! so here I was tonight, the night before the last day of school before winter break, baking cookies for the teachers and the bus drivers (and a few for myself!)


(Alison and I at cookie party #1)(Photo courtesy of Donna Black Davis, can I swipe it off your blog ? )

Cookies that the teachers will actually see...(cross our fingers!)