Organize your Stuff: Week 8/9(round 5): WOYWW 133

Welcome all to another wonderful Wednesday! Woe was the day when we only had our own desks to stare at us! We now have the WOYWW (What’s on your work desk Wednesday) world where we wander wistfully amongst the desks of our cyber craft pals, thanks in no small part to the Absolutely Awesome Julia, masterful mistress of the Stamping Ground.

Also, Happy Hanakkah to all those Jewish readers around the globe! Keep those driedels spinning and the gelt flowing! (my kids love Hanakkah gelt!)

Well here is a bird’s eye view of our desk today. WARNING: long post. Just skip to the end if you just want to see the desk!

Creative Me worked on the card below on our Las Vegas vacation (finished up about $170 for the week at the craps table…not bad for my $40 a day budget), but had problems uploading. BTW- Super thanks to the fine Pit crew at the Las Vegas Hilton (soon to be Las Vegas Hotel) for letting me take a couple pictures at the table! You guys rock!

Therefore, when we got back, Creative Me was able to break out the buttons to make it more like the inspiration photo for her Design Team entry for Tuesday Trio’s Sketch #98: Inspiration Photo. Such a cool room with all the bubbles and circles.

The POW is interrupting at this point for an infomercial for Snickerdoodle Cookies (as promised) from two weeks ago.

Snickerdoodles: a Crinkle Cookie (Betty Crocker Recipe)
Ingredients:
1 ½ cups sugar
½ cup stick butter, softened
½ cup shortening
2 large eggs
2 ¾ cups (or 1 lb by weight) flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoons baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
Cinnamon sugar (1/4 cup sugar & 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (204.45 C).
2. Cream together sugar, butter, shortening and eggs in a large bowl.
3. In small bowl, mix flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.
4. Add dry ingredients from small bowl to creamed ingredients in large.
5. Shape dough into 1 ¼ inch balls (approximately).
6. Roll balls in cinnamon sugar mix, and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet (they WILL spread)
7. Bake 8-10 minutes or until set (they will not brown).
8. Cool at least 1 minute on cookie sheet, then move to wire rack.
9. Eat. :)

Commercial Over. Now, on to the family segment!

We have been super busy, and probably will be until Fabulous Spouse leaves for Afghanistan after Christmas! We started with Las Vegas for Fabulous Spouse’s conference. Thanks FS’s company for an awesome last week of work trip!

While we were gone, Grammy was in charge. She had lots of places to go and children to ferry about. Our thanks to her is beyond words! Here we are at the American Girl Store with Girl Friday the day before she left.

Grammy’s last day was a wrestling tournament for the Illusive Middle Child. He lost three, but won the fourth match by a pin in the second period, snatching 3rd place in his paring group. (We love these tournaments, because it is SO cute to see Illusive Middle Child wear his medal to school all week afterwards).

Then we took Grammy to the airport after quickly changing into holiday attire for the Company Christmas Party (ironically…Las Vegas themed!). After spending two hours in park on the highway due to an accident, we finally made it home.

However, next day, we finally needed to track down a tree. Got a beauty at a cut your own (according to the kids this one is a 15 year old…from checking the rings). Gotta love the adjustable tree mount! It only took seconds to set up at home, just swivel and lower the latch when the tree is standing the way you like it. (For any single folk out there, definitely worth the $20-$40 investment, as it has saved our sanity may a time… especially the year that we did Christmas with a 2 month old, 2 year old, and 6 year old and no Fabulous Spouse…as he was out to sea).

The kids were especially happy to find out that there were two baby calves on premises that needed fed. The Christmas tree farm owner gave them carrots and let them get some quality cow time! LOL!

Tired yet?! Next day was split between Oldest Child’s solo at the Middle School Christmas Concert….

… and Illusive Middle Child crafting his pinewood derby car for the races in January.

Is it time for Christmas yet? Have fun running about for your holidays! Hope that you have time to sit back and enjoy it! Happy WOYWW!