Craziness, Cookies and 4H

'Twas the week before Christmas and it was CRAZY all around, couldn't sit for minute, couldn't afford to be lazy.

The hour before the 4H meeting came quickly upon us and  I realized with a fuss, that cookies were a definite must!

Oh my, oh my, what shall we do?

No other alternative but to bake, bake, bake.

We could do it, we could do it, I know, for goodness sake!

We somehow managed to bake a batch of sugar cookies & decorate them in time for the meeting.....phew!

But with this, I've finally come to the realization that I really need a better system to keep all of my family's activities and functions scheduled.  My calendar is just not cutting it!  Maybe my Droid can help me.

Our 4H club is really young with most members being of primary age,{5-8 years old} and only around eight members being over 8 years old, so sitting through the meeting portion is much more 'doable' when there's a fun activity at the end to look forward to like the cookie decorating contest we had the other night. 

It's fun to see how creative these kids can be!

By the way, Bryce's cookie is the snowman in the lower right hand corner.

It was too tough for the judges to decide on winners so everyone walked away with some sort of prize for participation.

What scheduling system do you use to keep on track?  I need some help!


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Mom's Day at Preschool & Homemade Playdough Recipe

I recently had the pleasure of attending 'Mom's Day' at Paige's preschool.  Very exciting to see what this four year old does during the days she spends there.  She took me by the hand, straight to the playdough table.  At the school, fresh playdough is made weekly {recipe below}.  Always with a different color and this week the color was baby blue.    Tons of fun to roll out the dough and use the cookie cutters.  I was told the playdough table is one of Paige's favorites.

Then as a suprise to us moms, we were given an assignment to draw a family portrait with our child.  WHAT!  Stick figures are my forte.  I don't draw and I was not amused with this idea.  But I showed no signs of uncomfortableness.....at least not to Paige anyway.  I pulled up my big girl's pants, took a deep breath and sat in a kiddie chair next to Paige and preceeded to help Paige draw our family portrait.

Basically, Paige told me what clothes she thought everyone should wear in the picture and picked out all the colors for me.  Even down to the pink bow in her portrait.  I drew myself, Paige, Bryce and Chloe and Paige drew her daddy and I think she attempted to draw herself as well.

Masterpiece.  It now hangs in Paige's room.  {I think I'll stick with the playdough and cookie cutters}

Homemade Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 T vegetable oil

1/2 cup salt

1 T cream of tartar

Food coloring

1 cup flour

Directions:

Combine the water, oil, salt, cream of tartar and food coloring of your choosing in a saucepan and heat until warm.  Remove from the heat and add the flour.  Stir and knead until smooth.  Store in an airtight container or Ziploc bag.  Do not refrigerate.

Tip: save your containers from store bought cake frosting {or something similar}- perfect for storing playdough!

Happy Thursday!

This is a fun project to make with your kids during the upcoming holidays!  If you would like to share this recipe, feel free to click the 'Like' button for your facebook friends, or copy and paste the link to this post and share it:)

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