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Saturday, September 11, 2010

On Boxes and Oatmeal Cookies (recipe)

On Boxes and Oatmeal Cookies (recipe): "

For Muslims around the world, today marks the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr, a celebration marking the end of the fasting month or Ramadan. The girls have left for the night to celebrate the event with their father, so I’ve been blessed with some time off and as many mothers do when they are suddenly confronted by an empty house. I took a nap.


We’ve had a busy few days with visiting with friends and working on projects. The highlight of their day yesterday was making oatmeal cookies with their friend, J, and her mother. We came across an awesome recipe, and I made a few modifications with it and these cookies are just as good (if not better)!


Chewy Oatmeal-Currant-Raisin Cookies




Yummy cookies!



(makes 48)


You will need:



  • 3/4 cup butter, softened

  • 3/4 cup white sugar

  • 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

  • 2 3/4 cups oatmeal flour (place oatmeal in blender)

  • 3/4 cup raisins

  • 1/2 cup dried currants



  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

  2. In large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Stir together flours, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Gradually beat into butter mixture. Stir in raisins and currants. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

  3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Cool slightly, remove from sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.



Sticking shapes on paper
Measuring out the oatmeal before putting it in the blender.
Pouring oatmeal into the bowl.
Measuring out the butter.
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Stirring the batter.
Dropping the batter onto the baking sheet.
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Yummy cookies!
Boxes!! Just a few hours earlier, I was saying to J's mom how much I wanted to get my hands on some large boxes for the girls to play with. I came across a neighbour hauling out these beauties and immediately snatched them up.

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Educational thoughts from history's garden for us to ponder...

~ Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
~ I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
~ The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. ~ Jean Piaget
~ The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. ~ Sydney J. Harris
~ It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
~ Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ~ Mark Twain
~ An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. ~ Sydney Wood
~ Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ~ Will Durant
~ Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ~ George Saville
~ The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. ~ Sherwood Anderson
~ Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G.M. Trevelyan
~ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ~
Henry Brooks Adams
~ A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
~ They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing. ~ Douglas Yates
~ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau
~ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~ Aristotle

~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
~ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
~ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
~ The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~ Martin H. Fischer
~ [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain
~ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~

Oscar Wilde
~ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~ G.K. Chesterton
~ Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~ AbbE Dimnet
~ Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeates

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