Boy was that a wild ride! The wind Friday night was crazy. I know the three of us got very little sleep. We trekked to my mom's house on Saturday after it cleared up to get her generator. See, we were prepared...for a few days. Then we heard that power outages could take 3-4 weeks to completely restore. Ack! Our food would surely go bad by then.
We managed to get really lucky when we checked on Casi & Lin's apartment Sunday and they had power! After sweating our buns off Saturday night this was music to our ears. We packed up and headed inside the loop. Only to come back Tuesday when our power was back on. I won't lie, Jason and I were happy people. I am very grateful that we lucked out in getting our power back so soon. Today is day 9 (I think) and the people across the street from me are still out. I'm not sure who to thank for our power coming on so soon, but I'll write them a letter. We've been hosting our own little refugee though - Rachel is still without power! We let her "rent" out the guest bedroom. I'm only charging her pizza Sunday night and Chicken Curry this weekend. Well, since we had Friday off to prepare, I baked cookies. Hey, they're non-perishable, right?
Mini M&M Cookies from the M&Ms website
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1/8 t salt
- 1 12oz pkg Mini M&Ms
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars, beat in egg and vanilla. In a medium bowl combine flour, soda and salt. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the M&Ms. Chill the dough for 15-20 minutes. Scoop by heaping tablespoons full on to a baking sheet (I'm in love with my Pampered Chef stone!) and bake for about 10-12 minutes. Cool completely...if you can!!
