Why do I bake so many cookies? - that is an easy question to answer. I have a challenge to find the best Martha Stewart cookie recipe this year.

Why do I enjoy baking cookies so much? - this one was not so easy, but I have worked it out. I love the fact that someone else is telling me what to do. I am not comfortable with taking instructions from anyone, so this revelation was very interesting to me. I think it is because I have to make so many decisions all day long. At work, at home, about money, about the house, the animals, decisions, decisions, decisions!!!

So it is extremely relaxing for me to just follow a simple set of instructions, with no pressure associated to the outcomes. If the recipe is horrible, my dogs will eat it. If the recipe is great - the people will eat it. If it is amazing, I might even eat it. So now I know why I love baking - I can blame someone else if it is not a success (hie-hie-hie), and I do not have to make any decisions for a short, sweet-smelling, dough-mixing period of time.

Getting us straight onto the cookie for tonight - which is  non-bake cookie and super easy. If you have kiddies, or if your inner kiddie needs something nice - please make these cookies over the weekend.





Peanut-Butter Granola Balls

And still my favourite challenge is the mini-art journal challenge from http://embers.typepad.com/e/mini_art_journal_challenge/page/5/. This week I had to do a card using a symbol that means a lot to me.

Hearts are very special to me, and they fill my house and my walls. So it was easy to decide on the design this week, but it was very difficult to write the ode to my mom on the back. I think I got my love of hearts from her. Thinking about it, even my sister's shop in Pennington is filled with hearts. The heart I used is made by my husband from the bones of an animal, and the hole in the heart symbolises the emptiness I feel when I think about my mom and I miss her terribly.

Talking about bones - they fit right into my recycle/reuse challenge. After the bones were cooked, sterilised and dried, we made all these hearts out of them and they now adorn my kitchen window.

If you still have a mom, please let her know how much you love her tonight!!! Now I am saying goodbye before I start crying and making you all cry. My blog is suppose to be uplifting and motivating, so roll on the good times - yipppeeee!!!

Talk to you tomorrow night

MWAH