Confessions...

What better way to start of the season of giving then to Bake Sugar Cookies.  I have to admit I LOVE Sugar Cookies but I HATE Cleaning up after baking them.

Karleigh loves Baking.  She always is asking to make cookies, bread, well anything. 

I am NOT a baker.  Nor am I one who enjoys cooking it causes me a small anxiety attack every day at 3pm when I hear the words in my head "what are we going to have for dinner." I would rather clean bathrooms all day then have to cook dinner or lunch or breakfast.  I realize that when I signed up for motherhood that I was going to have to overcome this "small" fear of mine.  When Chad and I got married I worked so I ate out for lunch then his mom insisted on us eating dinner at her house.  So see I never had to learn to cook.  After about a couple of years after we had been married I thought I really needed to start learning some basics cause heck I was going to have kids some day and then what? Was I going to say hey kids your hungry? Let's go over to Nanas.  Yeah that sounded so wrong and so not "normal" .  So I started to dappel a little I could make the easy stuff.  Lasagna, spaghetti, anything from a box.  Frozen Stouffers That solved much of my dilema.

Needless to say we ate at Nana's ALOT almost everyday.  About 6 years ago it stopped I "grew" up and started to feed my own family.  It has been one rollercoaster ride.  I don't think I will ever be the great cook or baker like so many pintrest pinners and facebook friends, neighbors, and family around me but I am learning more about myself while on this ride. 

THis ride of self discovery has not been fun.  It has not been enjoyable but one thing is for sure it has been at time laughable!

I am thankful for my mother in law that doesn't laugh when I call her with questions such as "how long to boil a egg? How do you make baked potatoes? What is a scallop? " the list could go on and on. But to save myself from more self embarassment I will stop there.

 

There is one thing I CAN bake though and that is Sugar Cookies.  I have the best recipe it is my mom's "secret" recipe and it is the only thing I make perfect!!! So here is the start of a great Christmas Cookies season