A Baking Day

The weather has cooled to a chilly 80º and so I thought it was safe to do some baking today.  In the heat of summer the last thing anyone wants to do is turn on the oven!  Chocolate chip cookies were in order.  It's been ages since I made a batch.  I made up the dough while Emily was sleeping, but she helped me put the spoonfuls of dough onto the sheet for baking. 

Although I am a huge fan of cookie dough... I am reluctant to let my daughter eat it.  Memories of my childhood best friend's father singing "Sal-mo-ne-la, Sal-mo-ne-la" to Händels halleluja chorus, come to mind. ;)  Of course, Em inevitably did suck a little bit, but when I told her not to eat it, she contented her self with kissing the dough ball saying, "Love you, cookie!"

Now we're munching cookies and sipping milk.  It's beginning to feel a bit more like October around these parts.