\tAnother stay-at-home-mom lesson learned today… when I hosted a cookie swap. Now, I’m not entirely sure what possessed me to do such a thing, but I did. Most people couldn’t come but four did show up. <\/p>\n
\tI had no idea what I was in for.<\/p>\n
\tThe cookie-swap expert walked in and asked me how many cookies everyone was supposed to have brought. I didn’t tell anyone to bring any specific number of anything. You’re supposed to do that? Oh. I figured we’d just, well, swap a few. She had brought four dozen, which, she told me, meant that she was to leave with four dozen. All I wanted was to make sure that I didn’t end up with none of the cookies that Kaitlyn had helped me make yesterday. She would not have understood that. Frankly, neither would I. <\/p>\n
\tAnother guest struggled in the kitchen with her peanut brittle that remained peanut mush, no matter what she tried (including a stint in my freezer). Still another brought coffee cake instead of cookies. And just imagine the swap-expert’s horror when the fourth guest tried to leave without taking anything with her.<\/p>\n
\tAll in all, it went well. No one counted how much they left with versus how much they showed up with. Well, most of us didn’t. And I managed to end up with three plates bursting with goodies to give to the teachers at school…. as well as a plate of Kaitlyn’s cookies to spare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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