Baking the Blues Away

We are baking away the blues right now. Bob got laid off yesterday. It was a complete shock to him, as well as to me. There was nothing to have prepared us for it. But we are managing. We are both networking like crazy to hopefully find some thing for either one of us. We are hopeful that some thing will come our way, eventually.

So, to keep my mind off of things, I decided to make sugar cookies with the girls - baking the blues away. So, we each had our own rolling station and set forth to make some sugar cookies, but most importantly, make a nice mess. Both Celie and Anna did a great job of rolling out their dough. Celie even cut out some very nice cookies (see the baked row of Celie cookies on the right) but then ended up playing with dough as if it were Play-Doh.

Anna took a different approach. She wouldn't let me help her roll out her dough or help her cut shapes out. Instead, she pulled her dough apart to create her cookies. They came out quite well when they were baked.

I made up the difference and cut out a bunch of cookies.

Tomorrow, we are going to make mess #2 and frosting all of our yummy bake goods. Hopefully, the girls will not eat all of the frosting and candies, but we will see.