Celebrate our Independence

Friday was the Fourth of July. We had planned to go camping, but Da Man had to go help his brother move early in the morning, so we figured that by the time he got back and we packed the trailer to go it would be too late to get a camping spot. So, we bagged the whole idea.

Instead, I stayed in bed and finished a book I was reading. Then, about 10:00 I got up and made sugar cookie dough with the girls. In order to make cookies, you have to refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours, so we had two hours to kill before it was time to bake.

I'd made enough dough to get 5 large cookies with my handy-dandy Pampered Chef cookie mold that I bought several years ago to make 4th of July cookies. This is the first year I actually made them. Go me.

So, I baked the cookies. They had to cool before we could frost them... so they had to sit out. The temperature outside was in the high 90s, so the temperature inside was fairly warm as well, especially since I had the oven on to bake cookies. Our sugar hearts had to sit out for quite some time to cool down.

It is now about 3:00, approximately 5 hours since I set out to make 4th of July sugar cookies to commemorate the holiday. Time to make the frosting. I mixed up a batch and then went to get the food coloring out of the cupboard. I found blue... but where is the red?

I got a chair to get a better look, and while I was rummaging, I knocked a bowl of sugar out. I watched as it fell, hit the counter, and tumbled to the floor, where it literally exploded! Sugar and glass went EVERYWHERE. I've never seen a dish break like that. Apparently, it was tempered, causing it to obliterate into a million pieces. Man, what a mess.... and there was no red food coloring to be found. I had to use hot pink. Sorry, Founding Fathers, our great nation's colors are temporarily Hot Pink, White and Blue. Get over it.

I cleaned up the sugar and the glass and went to mix the icing, but the house was too warm and the frosting was runny. So, I had to chill it a bit before I could frost the cookies.

It is now 4:15.

But, take a look... don't they look nummy??

I wouldn't let anyone eat their cookie until we ate some real food first, so I ran to KFC for some dinner. (What? You thought I was going to cook? My kitchen was already hot enough!). We ate too much and nobody wanted a cookie after eating dinner... so we waited.

It's now 9:00; almost 12 hours from when I first started making these cookies and we are finally eating them. Not bad, if I must say so myself. When I asked the girls what they thought of these all-day cookies, Squeaker replies, "Mine is delectable!!" I looked at her and said, "they're what??"

"Mom, they are delectable - that means 'delicious' in my language."

I told her delectable means delicious in my language too. Where the heck did she get that word? Too funny.

Here she is with her DELECTABLE all-day 4th of July sugar cookie.

It will probably be a few more years before I make them again.