Christmas Cookies

I am definitely not Betty Crocker or June Cleaver. I spent most of the day baking cookies with my daughter. She and I made a huge mess in the kitchen. How hard is it to make Chocolate Chip Cookies from Scratch. You follow the directions on the package and your cookies turn out perfect. Wrong. These are what mine turned out like. So then I decide to use some of the dough to make bar cookies. Drama Queen tried telling me I filled the pan to full. Ok, your 9 and I am.....older. I know how to make cookies. Wrong. She runs upstairs to come get me. It seems my cookies were spilling out all over the oven. Boy did my house stink. From now on I will bake the premade cookies out of the package. We both had a great afternoon. The chocolate chip cookies turned out very flat, but the sugar cookies turned out great. I haven't tried any of them yet, but the kids love them. All this baking and I have no appetite for any. I couldn't keep my paws out of the dough and now I can't stand the sight of them. I just hope the Marines at the Recruiting Office don't think I was trying to make them sick. I am going to have to keep practicing on making "Home Made" Cookies for when Sniper leaves. I want to been able to send him and his Marines lots of goodies. Note to self....keep practicing on baking. Lego Man is doing well today. Back to his feisty self. Yeah! No one else has come down with the flu yet. Still keeping my fingers crossed. dyzgoneby