Project #4 | December Daily Book

So loved this project.  I'm definitely going to be doing this again next year.  And I can't wait!

Project #4 of 10
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#100 | Have a Game Night with Family

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Completed: December 21, 2012

#24 | Send Christmas Cards

93 cards sent to 15 states.

If you are a good family friend of ours, your card is on its way.  We were a little delayed this year.  Sorry!

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Completed: December 21, 2012

40 Recipes | #5 White Chocolate Peppermint M&M Cookies

Recipe Source:  I found this recipe on Pinterest, which led me to this blog: number-2-pencil

Ingredients:

14 tablespoons of melted and cooled butter

3/4 cup of granulated sugar

3/4 cup of firmly packed dark brown sugar

1/2 a cup of Hershey's unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon of kosher salt

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 teaspoon of peppermint extract

1 large egg

1 large egg yolk

1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

1 bag of White Chocolate Peppermint M&M's

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine butter, sugars, cocoa, salt, vanilla extract and peppermint extract. Stir on low just until combined. Continue stirring and add eggs one at a time. Then add flour and baking soda to bowl and stir just until dough forms. 

3.  Form two tablespoons of dough into balls and place on cookie sheet. Place ten White Chocolate Peppermint M&M's on top of each cookie dough ball and bake for about ten minutes.

4.  Remove from oven and let cool. 

Thoughts:  This cookie had very good mint flavor, however, they needed some modifying.  The cookie did not have enough flour. 

Verdict:  Make again?  Yes!  These are definitely a holiday cookie.  If you want these through out the year, you will have to buy a years supply of peppermint M&Ms because they are only available during the holidays.

NOTE:  I re-made these following the basic tollhouse chocolate chip cookies.  I didn't add the chocolate chips and I added a tsp of peppermint extract.  Turned out much better! 

#45 | Don't eat fast food for a month

I realize this was kind of a silly one. I mean, I don't eat fast food very often as it is, but it had become a slight habit recently.

Of course, how do we celebrate? By going to Taco Bell for dinner tonight. But we are going for dad because he has wanted tacos for the last 3 months and couldn't because he was in a restricted diet from his bone morrow transplant.

Yay for remission!!!!

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Completed: November 27, 2012

#75 | Vote in the Next Election

16 of 101

Completed: November 6, 2012

Project #2 | 2011 Blog Book

I’m sorry I never shared my first project.  I have one crappy phone photo of it and that’s it.  Just enough to add to a grid photo for when I can cross this prompt off.  (Can’t wait!  I love crossing things off of this list!) 

Project #1 | Key chain

Project #2 | 2011 Blog Book

It didn’t dawn on me to do this until a few months ago.  I have a blog.  I share my life, my stories.  They go off into cyberspace.  And then what….  They just sit there, getting deeper and deeper and eventually they will get lost.  (Or you will have to scroll through umpteen million Internet pages looking for that one post that documented that one thing.)  That is so not the purpose of blogging.  The purpose is to remember.  So I decided to turn my blog into a book separated by years. 

When putting this together I realized I shared some really strange things, especially in the early days.  But it is what it is and so I left it and added it to the book. 

                        

Overall, I am satisfied with this book.  I can’t wait to add 2012 next to it on the shelf. 

If you are wondering, I created my book on Blurb.  This is my 4th book I’ve made through this website and I couldn’t be happier!