Snickerdoodles

Watch out June Cleaver!!  That's right.  I'm taking over.  While the girls were at school today I managed to:
Get diapers at Costco
Vacuum
Clip Petey's nails
Do 4 loads of laundry
Clean the kitchen
Make snickerdoodles
Re-Clean the kitchen
Pack of most of Emilie's room

And finally (the best part)...
Pick them up from school with a warm snickerdoodle and sippy cups full of milk.

Ta-da!!

The problem lately is when I pick them up for school, they are thirsty and then when we get home they are hungry.  And THEN they want to nap.  So I decided to have drink and snack ready so that all we had to do when we got home was to set our things down, take a couple more swigs of milk, and then head upstairs for a nap.  They aren't napping at school so they nap when they get home.  :) 

photos courtesy of ADAM MARK!

Snickerdoodles

mom's recipe

1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup crisco
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 tsp salt

Separately: 2 Tbsp sugar mixed with 2 tsp cinnamon

Mix the soft margarine, crisco and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs and then add flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.  Batter will be moist.  Roll into balls and then roll the balls around in the cinnamon and sugar mix and then place on cookie sheet.  Bake at 400 for 8-9 minutes.  The tops will crackle. 

It was a cooler day today in Nashville.  Both girls have on fleece pajamas tonight.  It is actually Christmas tonight in our house because Emilie is wearing Santa pajamas.  They are hand-me-downs from Aubrie.  :)

I let the girls play outside a little, but not too much since they didn't have warm enough clothes on. 

Aubrie likes to lay down and look at the clouds

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