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An awesome cookie to bake:

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips

1 cup dried cranberries (I used Craisins - Ocean Spray brand) 

Heat oven the 350 and line baking sheet with parchment. (I didn’t do this and they were fine)

Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl, set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and mix until combined. Add flour mixture and mix until just combined. Add chocolate chips and cranberries and use a wooden spoon to mix in.

For regular sized cookies, drop by tsp. full onto sheet and bake for about 9-11 min. until set. (this is the size I went with)

For larger cookies, drop by Tbs. and cook a little longer. About 15-18 min.

Cool for a few minutes then move to a cooling rack. Enjoy!

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Georgia's letter to Santa:

She's asking for a chandelier for her bedroom this year for Christmas. On the back of her letter & drawing she wrote "make shur it has pink".

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More later................

Has been one busy month! The month started off with a bang and Imac was home sick with a fever for the first 3 days of December. We celebrated my mom's 69th birthday on December 3rd. Had Georgia's first soccer game on the 6th, followed by shopping at the Scrapbook Expo that was in town and, later, going out for my friend Amy's 39th birthday! We had dinner and saw Four Christmases at the new Cinebistro in Wesley Chapel. It was fun, but kind of hard to eat your dinner in the dark! Sunday R hit the range and later we had dinner with my family to celebrate mom's birthday. After dinner, my mom said she would watch the girls if R and I wanted to  go to a movie, so we decided to see Twilight. Both of us had read the series of books and wanted to see "the vision" of the author. It was a decent movie, but I enjoyed the books much more.

Late Sunday/early Monday Georgia came into our room complaining of ear pain. Joy! I gave her some tylenol and sent her back to bed. First thing Monday morning, called into the Pediatrician and got a 9am appointment. Took both girls to the doctor and they BOTH have ear infections. More joy! The nurse ended up using some numbing ear drops on GA's ears because she was crying from the pain. She's not dramatic at all - saying things like "My ear is killing me" "I'm going to be dead because my ear hurts so much" "My ear is just annoying me", etc... So both girls are on a 10 day regimen of antibiotics and both of them missed the first two days of school this week.

Wednesday the 10th - everything is pretty much back to normal so we headed out to get our Christmas tree. With all of the sickness we just hadn't had a chance to get our tree yet. We decided on a beautiful Douglas Fir:

And back to crazy busy Friday today. R took GA to soccer practice on his own tonight since Imac is still coughing and such from her cold/ear infection and I didn't want her running around in the cold night air.

Another busy weekend and the 12 days of Christmas start tomorrow! We will be headed to a Walk through Bethlehem program and hopefully to see Santa this weekend, too!

Yes, it can be done! R was quite skeptical when I told him I was making Salmon for dinner. In the crockpot. Fridays are crazy busy in the afternoons. GA gets home from school around 2:30 and then we have to leave for our Daisy Scout meeting at 3:15. We normally get home around 4:45pm and then have to turn around and leave again at 5:40 for soccer practice. So, I've been trying to do quick dinners on Fridays to get us out of the house on time.

I came across this recipe last week and thought I would give it a try. I didn't have a cedar plank, so I just made a foil packet like she suggests. I also used a sprig of fresh rosemary since our rosemary bush is HUGE. This turned out great! Slightly sweet and savory and the house didn't smell like fish at all. R said he was pleasantly surprised and everyone gobbled it up!

Here's the recipe as I used it:

1.25 lbs salmon filet

1 tsp each of cumin, salt, garlic powder and onion powder

1 sprig of fresh rosemary

2 limes, sliced

1 Tbs (or so) of honey

Place fish onto large piece of foil. Mix dry spices and rub onto salmon. Drizzle with honey. Top with rosemary and limes. Fold up foil into a packet and refrigerate for an hour or so. Place packet into crockpot and loosen the top foil to make room for steaming the fish. Cook on low for 2-2.5 hours. Remove limes and rosemary before serving. Enjoy!