Mander's pre halloween adventure.
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amand_rAmand-r and the great cookie disaster.
--by Amand-r, PEI Esquire, DSMV VI
As this is Viv's first Halloween party I wanted to make a good showing at the whole "I'm an awesome parent and I rule hard" game that instinctually takes over your brain when faced with the sign up sheet for sweets to bring. Mum signed me up for cookies.
I can do cookies.
Simpler is better with preschoolers, but these are discerning palates, raised on Chef Boyardee and Clif Bars. Naturally I wanted to be awesome.
The first batch burnt to a crisp, as I was rolling them way thinner than I should. I had to pitch them. Then mum told me that I was probably still in pierogie dough mode. Still, I baked them for five minutes. In the end, I started to collect the okay box and the reject box:
SOME OF THEM COULDN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE:
When they were all made, I brough Viv home from Joanma and Pop-Pop's and set her up with lame icing and the rejected cookies:
Tryin' to catch me riding shirty:
Vivi's cookies:
Mommy's cookies:
And then Viv's halloween parade. Skip if you're not into kid pictures.
I FELT SECURE KNOWING THAT Tinkerbell and Snow White were being flanked by the Dark Knight and the Transformers.
--by Amand-r, PEI Esquire, DSMV VI
As this is Viv's first Halloween party I wanted to make a good showing at the whole "I'm an awesome parent and I rule hard" game that instinctually takes over your brain when faced with the sign up sheet for sweets to bring. Mum signed me up for cookies.
I can do cookies.
Simpler is better with preschoolers, but these are discerning palates, raised on Chef Boyardee and Clif Bars. Naturally I wanted to be awesome.
The first batch burnt to a crisp, as I was rolling them way thinner than I should. I had to pitch them. Then mum told me that I was probably still in pierogie dough mode. Still, I baked them for five minutes. In the end, I started to collect the okay box and the reject box:
SOME OF THEM COULDN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE:
When they were all made, I brough Viv home from Joanma and Pop-Pop's and set her up with lame icing and the rejected cookies:
Tryin' to catch me riding shirty:
Vivi's cookies:
Mommy's cookies:
And then Viv's halloween parade. Skip if you're not into kid pictures.
I FELT SECURE KNOWING THAT Tinkerbell and Snow White were being flanked by the Dark Knight and the Transformers.
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Date: 2010-10-30 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-30 02:39 pm (UTC)I HAVE LEFTOVERS! It turns out people brough int all kinds of huge store bough things, and mine kind of...sucked. :(
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Date: 2010-10-30 03:03 pm (UTC)Dude, your cookies look phenomenal. I totally understand about needing to decorate them JUST SO. When I make Christmas butter cookies, I only give away the ones I decorated myself. The ones M decorates we eat or I put in the big box o goodies I make for her family. Yeah.
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Date: 2010-10-30 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-30 04:05 pm (UTC)Also I'm jealous of your cookie decorating skills. I actually think Viv does a better job of decorating sugar cookies than I do. When mom and I do our annual eight million snowflake/mitten Christmas sugar cookies, I'll show you what I mean. It's embarrassing.
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Date: 2010-10-30 05:04 pm (UTC)I really wish we could've found her some dwarves; maybe we could pay some of my neighbors?
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Date: 2010-10-30 05:12 pm (UTC)We're still eating these mofos.
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Date: 2010-10-30 05:07 pm (UTC)Although yours were almost too pretty to eat.
I would have devoured them anywaySnow White looks like she's being followed by her Royal Guard. :D
(and you know this is me, right? LJ name change? not some weird new person? I'm paranoid)
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Date: 2010-10-30 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-30 07:42 pm (UTC)I didn't know people did vcookies for halloween!v I thought that wa a christma only thing
(arhgj writing on Gwennie, becaue till no power cord for big computer, aaannnnoying)
I alo ddidnt realite you could do multicoloured icing. I'm not ure why that didn't occur to me buit ... it make sense I guess
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Date: 2010-10-31 12:12 am (UTC)I have 100 cookie cutters. Imma do every holiday.
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Date: 2010-10-31 02:28 am (UTC)Your daughter is adorable. No, really. And I'm actually fairly certain I was Snow White for Halloween at exactly the same age. :D It's a timeless costume.
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Date: 2010-10-31 01:45 pm (UTC)COOKIES 4 EVERYONE!
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Date: 2010-10-31 03:54 am (UTC)(Crud, you just reminded me that my Triceratops' 7th birthday is Monday insofar as he needs to bring treats to school that day. I try to provide something homemade when possible, but I am not even going to be home until tomorrow. So storebought it may be! Thanks for reminding me!!)
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Date: 2010-11-02 01:29 pm (UTC)THEN I SERIOUSED.
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Date: 2010-10-31 06:13 am (UTC)Great cookies! did everyone agree that you are the best mama evah?
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Date: 2010-10-31 01:47 pm (UTC)MUM DODGED SOME LIGHTNING, BUT I THINK IT WAS JUST FANMAIL FROM GOD. I THOUGHT I HEARD, "I LOVE YOUR RIMMING STORIES!" RIGHT BEFORE THE BENCH CAUGHT ON FIRE.
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