Boredom.....

Day 32. We wake up and think "Another 24 hours to fill." And I will fall into our new routine....walk Fenway and then give him his breakfast. Drink coffee and watch GMA. Shower if it's shower day. Dress and fix my hair as best I can. (I need a haircut!) And I spend time in the morning at my sewing machine either making baby quilts or home-made face masks. And I walk Fenway again and have lunch. And read a book and watch TV. And play cards with Dave and Banangram solitaire at the card table. And I call friends to chat. And then I fix dinner and after dinner we watch TV and go to bed about 9:00.

But yesterday was really different. I did something I literally haven't done in years! I baked cookies.

It's no secret that I really don't like time spent in the kitchen with meal prep....been there and done that for more than 50 years. I envy my friends who find the culinary arts to be just so very satisfying and creative. I have to follow an exact recipe and am not interested enough to try a whole lot of new things. So the last time I baked cookies was when Evan and Zach were pre-schoolers and came to stay overnight with us in Bay View. (Maybe 12-13 years ago!) I would buy the sleeve of ready-to-go chocolate chip cookies at the grocery store. The little guys would stand on chairs to reach the kitchen counter and carefully help cut the dough into slices and watch me pop the cookie sheet into the oven. Then they would "patiently" wait until the cookies came out, cooled just a bit and they could go run around the corner and offer their Pop Pop a warm cookie. We called them making "cold cookies". A fun memory for me.

Well we were out of any kind of sweet treat and I wasn't about to go to the grocery store just for than. Sooooo.....I made peanut butter cookies from scratch.

They are delicious. But on my next grocery run I'm buying an extra package of store bought cookies.