When my Nanny passed away I found some of her recipes. I also got a couple of her iron skillets and a tupperware bowl. I just love having her recipes that are written in her hand writing! One of the recipes are my favorite Chocolate Oatmeal Drop cookies. I remember when I was little her baking those at Christmas time. So this past Wednesday after we got the tree up I pulled out my (Nanny's) recipe and decided I would make some cookies. If you have ever made these cookies you know that they don't turn out just right every time. If you don't boil them long enough they won't harden and if you boil them too long they are dry and hard. So it is a tricky thing. Guess What? They turned out PERFECT!! I was so excited! Because they don't turn out every time I just don't make them often, but I was so glad they turned out this time. Every single one of us loved them! Elijah could eat all of them if I would let him. They were delicious!
Bryan and I had a Christmas party to attend last night and I thought that I would make these cookies again and take some of them with us. I made two batches this time. Guess What? They were not so right this time. ARGH!!! I had not boiled them long enough this time. So I didn't get to take them to the party. They are good they just didn't harden like they are suppose to. So after I put them in the refridgerator and they got a little bit harder I placed them in the bowl that was my Nanny's. I have thought about her alot this week. I use to call her when I would make something of hers and tell her. I so wanted to pick up the phone and tell her about the cookies. We didn't talk every day but I enjoyed the many times we did talk. She is missed so much!!
Nanny's recipe (in her handwriting) for Chocolate Oatmeal Drop Cookies
The cookies I made on Wednesday night that turned out GREAT!! :)
The cookies in Nanny's bowl.
Elijah after he ate one of the ones that did not harden. He did not care how they looked, they tasted the same. He even told me as I was baking them that he wanted to put something in them so no one would eat them and I would have to bring them all home. LOL!! Can you see the chocolate on his face and hands? Isn't he the cutest?
So where do I begin? It was Thursday morning and the kids were suppose to be starting their school. I went into the kitchen and Isaac was not at the table (where he usually does his school). But the door to the garage was wide open. I went to the garage and could not find him, so I yelled for him and he didn't answer. Bryan was on his way to work and said maybe Isaac was doing his chores, but I knew that he had already done his chores. I looked outside and what did I see...Isaac with a young goat. What was he doing? He had come to the garage and gotten a piece of material and was tying the goat up. So I told Isaac to come in and asked him why he had a goat. He informed me that he found the goat and was going to tie the goat up so the coyotes could not get it. I know what you are thinking because I was thinking the same thing!!! :) Anyway we told him that we would find the owner and return the goat. Of coarse with all the excitement the other kids have to come and see what is going on. So now we are all outside looking at this really cute goat and trying to decide where could it have come from. Bryan says that he will ride to a couple of houses before going to work to see if someone might be missing a goat. When Bryan leaves it is all I can do to try and get the kids to focus on what we need to be doing, which is school. Isaac keeps coming up with ideas that if it doesn't belong to anyone then maybe he could keep it, he could build it a house, what would we do with it for the night so that no coyotes get it, and on and on. Bryan comes back by to report that no one is at home and that when he gets off they will try again. We ask Isaac once again how and where he found the goat. He tells us that he was starting to do his school work when he heard the goat bleating. He looked out and saw the goat in the cow pasture behind our house and just new that the goat was lost. He goes to the gate of the cow pasture, climbs under the gate and runs to the goat, picks up the goat and beings it all the way back to our house. What? So now I realize that we have a "stolen" goat. It is all I can do to hold back my laughter. We inform Isaac that he is going to have to take the goat right back and that the goat will be fine and will find its way back to where it needs to be. Isaac goes (very sadly) and gets the goat and returns it. When he comes in I asked him did he put the goat right back. Isaac looks at me and says (with tears in his eyes) "yes ma'am, I put him on a platter for the coyotes. I just served them dinner" and he walks off. Bryan calls when he gets to work and reassures Isaac that the goat will be alright. WOW all that over a goat. What a story! Sorry so long but I really wanted to share every detail!! Isaac is fine and has not mentioned the goat much at all, except to tell family that he rescued a goat. Its moments like this that I love homeschooling!! :) 
