i made cookies today.

grendel and abby “helped”:

most of the cookies are of the bar variety, and not interesting enough to photograph. however, i am pretty excited about some of the sugar cookies i baked. some of them are the typical snowman, star and christmas tree shapes. the rest are meant to represent the animals of the house.

first up, abby, grendel and grendel’s best friend piggy:

you can read more about piggy by clicking here and scrolling down.

next is a sheep and a monkey:

the sheep represents all of the yarn around the house and the little sheep tape-measure that seems easier to find, lately, than the heavy-duty tape measure and so most of our house and belongings have been measured in sheep. the monkey is because monkeys make tom and me laugh and are often spoken of in our house. your’s too, right?

yup, a monkey makes me laugh…unless it is in a recent dream taunting abby and me in our backyard (despite my empty threat to throw a hatchet at it) and then somehow gets in the house, trapping me, tom, abby and grendel in our bedroom with no phone to call for help. that type of monkey is an evil monkey. you can tell by the eyes:

creepy.