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Welcome to my blog - it's like a diary only better. This is my soapbox containing a collection of my thoughts and the experiences of my life raising twins.

Prior to this blog, prior to marriage and prior to the twinsanity that I now call my life, life was quite different for me. When you visit this blog, you won’t find me writing much about my life pre-twins – I hope that’s okay. Why? You ask. Because life with twins changes everything and my life pre-multiples is now just a dizzy, distant memory. And while it’s true that life years ago may have been a little more glamorous, the life I live now is a whole lot more rewarding and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

I’m glad you’ve stopped by...there’s a really strong chance that I won’t offer anything extraordinary here, but by the same token there is also the possibility that you will experience a taste of the adventures, challenges and many joys that come with my life with twins. Hopefully that will be enough to bring you back here again.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Baking Christmas Cookies

No sooner do we celebrate turning 4 years old do we shift our attention to celebrating Christmas and all the fun stuff that comes with it, like baking Christmas cookies! I like to bake desserts - cookies, cakes, brownies, fudge you name it - and having the twins helping bake goodies with me gives a whole new meaning to baking during the holidays. Toddlers definitely have their own ideas about how to bake cookies, and the twins were also quite ambitious about the whole experience - they had their own ideas about rolling the cookie dough like this, placing the cookies on the baking sheet like that, etc. It was pretty hilarious to watch them in action. Perhaps it was those new gingerbread man aprons they now wear that gives them a newfound sense of commanding the kitchen and all the baking activities...well, whatever it may be, the twins were having a great time today as we were making cookies. I commend them for their ambition and their spirit of adventure in baking so many cookies today, but I gotta' say, there is still a little room for improvement in their patience levels when it comes time to watching and waiting for the cookies while they are in the oven.

Down on their knees, watching the cookies as they bake.

See what I mean - the 10 minute cook time for each cookie sheet was really trying their patience.