Kate’s Blog

I learned an important lesson this weekend. If you have a great idea… keep quiet! For our ward Father’s Day party the women were making Chinese food. I thought, “hey we should make customized fortune cookies that say ‘Feliz dia del Padre’ (Happy Father’s Day) inside.” I mentioned it to the planning group & suddenly I was in charge of making 100 home-made fortune cookies.

Little did I know that you can only make 3 at a time & each batch takes about 10 min. to cook. And, about every other batch is a total failure. So… to make a long story short: Neil & I spent upwards of 7 hours over the oven on Saturday painstakingly bending flaming hot discs into fortune cookies. By the end of the whole ordeal we only had about 1/2 the needed cookies & some of them were pretty scrappy. Turns out they are a lot harder to make than the look!Neil went out to buy some reenforcement cookies & came back with a huge sack of wierd Oreo-esque wonders.

We were so tired that we left the activity early (Mexican activities last a MINIMUM of 3 hours) & didn’t even get to reap the rewards of seeing the papas enjoying their cookies.

Last week I almost signed myself up to teach a group of teens a flag routine, bringing back the glory days of captain of the flag team!  I think from now on I’ll preface every comment in a planning meeting with, “I don’t know how to do this... but, wouldn’t it be fantastic if….”

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