... It's a beautiful day, and I'm going out into it! I've been to the pool, then to town with Paul to have our signature notarized on some documents, then came home and mixed up a triple batch of cookie dough. (I got the dough all finished and in the fridge to chill, when I started putting things away and realized I hadn't added any vanilla! oops. Yeah, I got the dough back out, put the just-washed beaters back into the mixer, and mixed in three heaping teaspoons...the dough wasn't cold yet, thankfully.)
I ordered cookie scoops from Amazon, and they're coming today! I am so unreasonably excited about this. Since they're not here yet, I'm going with Char and Cam to meet Sonja and Oscar to take their new baby out for a walk at a park on a lake. I was just going to stay home, but...? I can bake later. (Paul is leaving for Budapest tomorrow, and wants to bring some chocolate chip cookies with him to share with co-workers.)
Anyway. The birthday party yesterday was wonderful. I had gone to Aldi earlier to get hot sausage, and fruit: watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, and green grapes are so delicious all together, watermelon cubed and strawberries sliced!. I got cheese puffs for the grandkids, and cookies. I made little prize bags for them with different kinds of cookies, Reeses' pumpkins, and little KitKat bars.
Margaret made an amazing cake for Tennyson, a dirt bike trail with toy dirt bikes on it. I had a pumpkin pie from Costco, so there was plenty of dessert. Margaret and Adrian went out in the sprinkle rainy weather and grilled coneys, hot dogs, and hot sausage, and husked the sweet corn. I manned the air fryer, making fries, corn dogs, and mini corn dogs.
All 17 of the grandkids were here: Anya, Elise, Declan. Lydia, Ophelia, Denzel. Achilles, Rhys, Jamison, Ellis. Wulf, Tennyson, Blythe. Grant, Ruth, Maeve. Kaia. (Did you know she's the tie-breaker? 8 grandsons, 8 granddaughters, then...9 granddaughters! The girls are winning, and Grace and Sam's baby girl is due in December, so the girls are going to be in the lead, 10-8!)
It's one of those days that make you fall in love with autumn. The sun is shining, the wind blowing, partly cloudy. The trees are just starting to turn, just a few red or yellow leaves nestled among the green.
It's evening now, all quiet in here. The park was lovely, then a quick trip to Wegmans. Home...ahh, home, time to bake those cookies with the new cookie scoops!
Tomorrow, it's to the airport, then to some garage sales with Evelyn, then to make chicken fajitas for whomever ends up coming here after the football game in Syracuse. Kathryn will be coming with the kids, and probably Sonja and Oscar. I'm thinking of stopping at my favorite bakery....what?! It's near the airport! It smells heavenly in there! Oh I dream of having a bakery. I'd like to bake and sell it, make some extra money. But I'd like a countertop four rack 1/2 sheet convection oven, or as long as we're dreaming, a full sized whole sheet one, and an extra huge refrigerator with a freezer too. :). As long as we're dreaming.
Anyway. It's been a busy enough day, I've enjoyed the heck out of it, and I'm tired. Good and properly tired. You all have a nice night!
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