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I totally forgot to post yesterday. I remembered at 12:03AM this morning, so I didn't have a chance to post even a sad, one word post just to have something up there. So much for NaBloPoMo. I'll keep carrying on, even though I'm no longer legitimate.

While I was pregnant with Henry, I had fantasies of making sugar cookies with my kid, colored sugars flying and dough taking the shape of pumpkins, santa claus, and turkeys. The reality is, there are few things I enjoy less than messing with sugar cookie dough. It always sticks to the rolling pin and the table no matter how much flour I dust onto everything, and by the time I transport whatever shape we've decided on to the cookie sheet, it's somehow transformed into a shapeless blob. By the time I've got a sheet full of cookies, I'm ready to throw the rolling pin out the window. Nothing puts the love in like a long string of obscenities.

A couple of weeks ago Henry made sugar cookies at preschool. They were really good, so I asked for the recipe. His teacher told me it was great because everything goes into the bowl at once and the dough is really easy to work. Since my mom is here today to help alleviate the tension that always comes when I make sugar cookies, I decided to give them a shot. And they *were* really easy. Henry said they "rolled" the dough out at school by mashing it down with their hands so we quickly eschewed the rolling pin and I have to say, that is definitely the way to go. So! If you're looking for a good, easy sugar cookie recipe, I definitely recommend this one:Great Grams Sugar Cookies. I should tell you about how I turned my back for three seconds and when I turned back around, Henry had his tongue in the cup of orange colored sugar. When he came up his whole mouth was orange and he looked very happy. Until he got into big trouble over it. One of childhood's fleeting moments of joy.