Susan makes birthday cookies

Hi, I am Susan. I decided to write for mom this week. My 17th birth­day is tomor­row the 24th so my treat to mom is to write the col­umn for her. I made mon­ster cook­ies yes­ter­day. I wanted to have some to treat every­one for my birthday.

I am here at my baby-sitting job. I brought some cook­ies for them too. The chil­dren really like the cook­ies. I think mon­ster cook­ies are a treat for the chil­dren espe­cially since they have M&Ms in them.

Today I have only the twins here. They are two years old and the girls name is McKen­zie and the boys name is Cole. On Mon­days and Fri­days I also have their 4-year-old brother, Hunter, to baby-sit for. Hunter makes me laugh. When nap time comes he can really talk, think­ing I will for­get about his nap.

They keep me busy but are a joy to be around. They are all very cute. McKen­zie and Cole are col­or­ing in their books while I am writ­ing. They think I am col­or­ing too because they wanted to color when they saw me writing.

It has been a very cold week so far. I don’t drive the ponies when it is this cold. I have two more ponies here to train. Sunny belongs to my boyfriend Mose’s sister’s family.

They want me to train her for their lit­tle boys. He is a minia­ture pony and is doing well with the train­ing so far. The other pony is named Roxy and she is mine now. Mose’s dad gave her to me. She did have some train­ing before but is still really rowdy. I need to keep work­ing with her but she makes me laugh at how stub­born she can get.

This is Fri­day morn­ing and I had a very nice birth­day yes­ter­day. Dad and mom went to the funeral of dad’s cousins wife. She lost her bat­tle to can­cer. How sad for the family.

I stayed home and folded laun­dry, washed dishes, and cleaned up the house. Around 2:30 Mose came and took me along to town. He had me pick out what I wanted for my birthday.

I picked out a nice office chair which I will have in my bed­room by my desk. I will use it a lot. I also picked out an “around the house toolkit.” Now I’ll have my own set of small tools if I need to fix or hang some­thing up.

Mose bought me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake and brought pizza home for the whole fam­ily for sup­per. Mom and dad had returned from the funeral by then. It was a treat for everyone.

Since we didn’t have to make sup­per we had time to fin­ish the 750 piece puz­zle which we started on Sun­day after­noon. It is oval shaped and has deer on it. We got the puz­zle from a reader last Christ­mas. It was fun to put it together.

Mom wants to do it together because my broth­ers want it hung in their bedroom.

Mose has two new nieces that were born five days apart. Last Fri­day evening I went with Mose and his fam­ily to meet his sis­ter Polly’s new baby girl named Delilah Louise. She is so sweet.

Tonight I am plan­ning to go with Mose to see his sis­ter Hannah’s baby girl name Alissa Fern. Mose has 21 nieces and nephews, he has six broth­ers and six sis­ters. I will share the recipe I used for the mon­ster cookies.

MONSTER COOKIES

2 sticks butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1/2 tea­spoon vanilla

1/2 tea­spoon corn syrup (clear)

2 tea­spoon bak­ing soda

1 1/2 cups peanut butter

4 1/2 cups oatmeal

2 cups choco­late chips

2 cups M&Ms plain

Pre­heat over 350 degrees.

Bak­ing time 10–12 minutes.

Cream but­ter and sug­ars (white and brown), add eggs, one at a time, vanilla, corn syrup, bak­ing soda, peanut but­ter, mix well until smooth, add oat­meal, mix well, scrape side of bowl, add choco­late chips, mix, add M&Ms mix, drop bat­ter on ungreased cookie sheets in spoon fulls (table­spoon). Edges should be golden brown. Let cool on cookie sheets about 3 min­utes before remov­ing to cool­ing racks. Makes 4 1/2 dozen plus

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