Christmas cookies....and good friends

The kids and I went down to Richa's yesterday, and we had a blast! I took brutus with us, her kids loved having a dog around. We made a bag of popcorn.... and her 2 yr old ...Z... went out to sit with the "poopy" (the dog lol) in the living room with his bowl of popcorn. I gave brutus a handful of popcorn (his most fav treat) and Z watched intently as brutus ate one piece at a time. When every last piece was gone, of course brutus proceeded to go sit with Z....in hopes of getting more of course! lol, it was so cute, Z went into the kitchen, got a spoon out of the drawer and went and sat back down with brutus. Richa and I were wondering what the hell he needed a spoon for popcorn for lol. Z is now feeding the dog (the poopy lol) one piece of popcorn at a time on the spoon. lol, we figure it was so he didnt accidentally get bit, although bru would never ever bite the hand that gives him a treat :) nonetheless it was adorable!
We managed to make peanut butter kiss cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies and cupcakes.... omg, what a nightmare. lol keeping track of so many different cooing times, and ingredients was awful. but we vowed this will be a yearly thing, every year for the kids. they had much fun, making, and rolling and decoratiung. it was a joy to see them all covered in different colors of frosting, and making very cool looking cookies. they made dradel's and the candle thingy that goes with it, for hanaka, and they made angels and stars and reindeer and snowmen .... then they decorated the crap out of them, lol. what a mess! but still so much fun. and i cant believe it, but somewhere in there we managed to get dinner cooked too! i was impressed!
on a different note, i called harborview medical center, and still they couldn't tell me if that girl was alright or not because of privacy acts. i thought maybe the mother would have been kind enough to release that information for us who helped her. as a last rsort, i had a brainfart and decided to call the local walmart where it happened, and ask a manager if they had happened to hear any news on the girl. as it turned out, the mother had just called a few hours prior, and informed the store that her daughter had made it, much surgery had to be done, but that she was going to be home for x mas..... thank god! i am so glad she was ok, and im so happy for her children not to have lost mommy to something so horrid and tragic right before x mas! yay, she made it! im so stoked!!!!!
well, off to go read my book, totally into it..... reading the green mile! will post a new book meme tomorrow!
bye all.............