I just convinced my children to stay in their beds. Neither one wanted to - the older one said she could feel her legs getting ready to jump out of bed if I left her. She also said, “If I’m awake, I need entertainment.” I told her she should go to sleep and let her dreams be her entertainment.

Then I hustled her younger sister off to bed, and convinced her to lay down and rest a bit. She asked me to go make cookies for tomorrow. She wants Snickerdoodles. “I’ll stay here,” she said, “not like when I was three.”

So I went downstairs, through the chaos that is my living room and plopped down here at my laptop on the dining room table. Having shirked cooking dinner (we got pizza & calzone), I now am considering penance: making Snickerdoodles. But I’m not getting started til I am sure there’s silence up above.

Mind you, there are plenty of other things I could be doing with my time. But making cookies is pretty pleasant, and it’s a nice cool evening.
Oatmeal Snickerdoodles
2 c Flour
1 t Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 t Cinnamon
1 c Butter; or margarine
Vanilla extract
3/4 c Granulated sugar
3/4 c Light brown sugar; firmly Packed
2 Eggs
1 1/2 c Oatmeal; old fashioned
2 T Granulated sugar
2 t Cinnamon

Mix all ingredients well about 5 minutes. Place by rounded teaspoons 2
inches apart on greased cookie sheet. For topping, mix together sugar and
cinnamon and sprinkle with a teaspoon over the cookies. Bake at 375~ for
10-12 minutes. Cool.