Fall Cookies

Marie and I made some decorated sugar cookies this week for girls night: sprinkles, cinnamon sugar, candy corn, and orange sugar. Orange sugar, by the way, is my new favorite thing. Just zest one orange and mix it with about 1/4 cup of sugar. DELICIOUS.


I went the simple route with the cookies, just pillsbury slice and bake sugar cookie dough. Lazy was the name of the game for dinner this week - chili dogs that took about three minutes total to make and then these.

Here they are in the oven! We were impatiently waiting...and drooling...



And pan #1 out of the oven! The orange sugar ones were a success, and of course the ones with the sprinkles. The candy corn, on the other hand, did this...


The candy corn melted through the cookies and stuck to the pan...I have yet to try one, when they solidified again the candy corn stayed really sticky. On pan #2 I also tried combining the orange sugar and cinnamon, which was good even though I got heavy handed with the cinnamon. Next time they will be perfect :-)

Wow...Time Files!

So...

::crickets chirping::

...Anybody still here?


Life happens, huh. I missed blogging! I think my motivation to blog has changed while I was gone though. My "Five Things Friday" was me whistling in the dark at first, but now it is a nice reminder to count my blessings. I'm going to switch gears a little and make this more of a normal blog and less the "Happiness Project" that it started out as. I miss photoblogging too, so maybe I'll combine the two. I said maybe. That would involve taking pictures, which I forget to do. Ahem. Where were we?

So if you've given up on me, come back! And if you weren't reading before, welcome! I'll be writing about life, love, family, friends, house projects, crafty things, flowers, babies, food (can't forget the food!), movies, books, yarn, music, tv shows, other blogs, road trips, legos, football, the cats that won't leave my yard, QT Cappuccino, purses, sewing, painting, and who knows what else. Something for everyone ;-)

Anybody know how to publish from a Blackberry?

Very Good Advice

I am neither an Oprah or Judge Judy fan, but I do love the blog "It's Almost Naptime!!". This post made me laugh, mostly because I can hear Judge Judy's voice saying these things...can you?

Five Things Friday: Long Overdue

A month? Sorry guys and gals! Let's see...how about ten things this week!

1) Old friends :-)

2) Cable TV...I cannot describe how much I missed my TiVo...pathetic, no?

3) Blueberry pancakes

4) A good conversation

5) Turning the AC down really low and getting under a warm fluffy blanket

6) Watching Clean House and Hoarders ... "Mayhem and foolishness!!"

7) Drumsticks...the ice cream kind!!

8) Caramel icing

9) Fireworks and sparklers!

10) Bare Minerals Eyeshadow - Plum and City Lights

Five Things Friday

This week's five things:

1) ziplist.com is AMAZING. I love that I can text things to add to my list or have it send me my list by store...if I forget things, it is entirely my own fault now!!

2) Have I mentioned that I'm cheating on the Big Mac? Burger King's Doublestacker is just plain good...and since I pack my lunch for work and save money four days out of the week now, it's a nice treat on Fridays, especially with a frozen Coke!

3) Getting things done around the house makes me really happy. Except for the front room and hallways that we haven't touched, there is almost nothing left to do in the main living areas of the house! The electrician is coming next week to give us an estimate, after that I'll have it made :-)

4) My daddy cut my grass!! I hadn't even mentioned how it's been bugging me, once it got too high to cut in the back with my push mower I didn't know what to do. He brought his riding mower up while I was at work yesterday and surprised me when I got home! Now I just have to keep it maintained...half an acre of grass to cut...I need to plant some more flowers!!

5) Saving money is kinda fun. I've gotten into the coupon clipping and salepaper reading grocery game...we'll see how it goes! It really is a game, I look at it as a challenge to see how much I can save.

I used to think I was a list-oriented person. And then I read this post on Fiddle-Dee-Dee about a Wal*Mart remodel and I realized that I don't even come close to being a "list person". Not that I haven't had the same complaint about the Kroger remodel when I lived in Stockbridge, or the fact that stores don't have consistent layouts from location to location (don't even get me started on how my Kroger moved the PB&J from picnic supplies to the bread aisle and I had to ASK where the peanut butter was...). But that's not me. I can go to the grocery store with a list and STILL not come home with everything I need. Hi, my name is Melissa and I get distracted easily.

Don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. I Corinthians 7:17a (The Message)