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The Weekend in Numbers

Published on December 19, 2010 By Emily. Updated on December 19, 2010

Friday:

2 bags of farm-fresh organic food picked up from our CSA

$40 spent at the supermarket, mostly on baking supplies

2 “failed” batches of Earl Grey infused shortbread, later rescued by my husband’s genius and more time in the KitchenAid

5 total batches of Earl Grey infused shortbread baked

72 Earl Grey infused shortbread cookies made for the Capital District NY Eat Drink Blog cookie swap Saturday night

1 delicious polenta casserole baked to share at the cookie swap

1 can of Select Harvest soup consumed for dinner, because I didn’t have time to cook a real meal

3 hours spent playing games at a friend’s house

Saturday:

36 lime sugar cookies with pumpkin seeds baked and packaged by sixes, for Sunday night’s local cookie swap

3 hours, total, in the car to get to and from the CDNY cookie swap (Also, we arrived 30 minutes early)

20 fantastic bloggers and their significant others squeezed into Heather’s apartment (total number of males in attendance: 4)

2 plates full of amazing food and 1 yummy cup of spiced hot Musselman’s cider consumed

3 answers I got correct in the 22 question game of “Guess the Holiday Movie Quote”

5 pairs of socks won for having the closest correct guesses for the number of m&ms in 2 different jars (30-something and 70-something)

57 cookies received from the cookie swap, 50% of which went into the freezer

1 black cardigan left in Heather’s apartment (luckily I have another one!)

Sunday:

1 lovely morning spent at church

38 Christmas letters printed (finally!)

47 pieces of biscotti made to be given to my awesome classroom aides

36 cookies received at the cookie swap

Total:

3 late (for us) nights having lots of fun

2 cookie swaps attended

5 recipes (2 cookies, 2 biscotti and a polenta casserole) baked

over 93 cookies now in our possession

0 hours of lesson planning because there are only 2 more days of school until Christmas break!

3 times I had to use spell checker to correct my spelling of “received” in this post

…and that is why there are no Highlights today.

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Comments

  1. Emily says

    December 19, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    your cookies were so good! I can’t wait to dip them in my tea tomorrow morning :D

    • Emily says

      December 21, 2010 at 10:08 am

      Aw, thanks Emily!

  2. Cynthia (It All Changes) says

    December 20, 2010 at 2:11 am

    Such a fun recap. I can’t believe you went to two cookie swaps.

    Oh and I have your cardigan should you choose to come rescue it before you leave :-)

  3. Heather says

    December 20, 2010 at 11:03 am

    LOVE this recap :)

    ALSO – Cynthia has your cardigan :) and i just noticed she just told you that.

    ALSO – I simply adore you guys! And I’m having polenta caserole for lunch! WOOT WOOT! xo

  4. Heather says

    December 20, 2010 at 11:07 am

    i would also like to point out how much adoration Dan and Julie seem to have for me in that photo. ;)

    • Emily says

      December 21, 2010 at 10:07 am

      You’re just so adore-able :)
      Thanks for passing along my cardigan!

  5. Julie @SavvyEats says

    December 20, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    I’m so glad we finally got to meet!!

    • Emily says

      December 21, 2010 at 10:07 am

      Me too! We’ll have to hang out again soon!

Trackbacks

  1. Vacuuming + Goals « It All Changes says:
    December 27, 2010 at 7:41 am

    […] and my cousins want to make cookies so the recipes I received from the CDNY Eat Drink Blog cookie exchange will come in very handy.  Thanks […]

  2. » Highlights: Christmas Cookies » Relishments says:
    December 11, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    […] to me that I don’t have any cookie swaps on my calendar this year and I had such a good time at the 2 I attended last year that I think I’m going to host one in January (let me know if you want […]

  3. » Cookie Swaps 2013 says:
    December 17, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    […] 2 is my magic cookie swap number.  In 2010 I attended 2 swaps.  In 2012 I attended 2 swaps.  Don’t ask what happened in 2011, I […]

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