I had grand plans for this season of love...platters of sugar cookies dipped in chocolate or drizzled in lemon glaze, dark chocolate cherry cookies, chocolate dipped strawberries and chocolate dipped Oreos. Cookies and treats for everyone was the plan. Somewhere a long the way the plan went off course.
Oh there were cookies...made from leftover dough in my recently temperamental oven. They were less than perfect, but still pretty tasty. Some spread the size of Montana...some looked like they had spent a little too much time in the tanning bed...some were extra gooey...some looked like little mountains of dough instead a gentle slopes. These cookies weren't part of the plan. Normally I would have thrown them out. I aim for perfection, but instead I swallowed my pride and gave them out. After all, how can you have a Happy Heartsong Cookie Day without a Heartsong Cookie?
The last couple weeks have taught me a thing or two about accepting imperfection. Time is my enemy these days. I have such a difficult time saying no to anything and end up teetering on the brink of disaster. This past Friday I actually ended up in the brink. I had promised Annie I would attempt to make an ice cream cookie cake for a baby shower she was having. An ice cream cake, 15 treat bags, a platter of decorated sugar cookies and a dozen White Chocolate Blueberry Pecan Cookies...all due in the midst of my weekly farmers' market baking. Needless to say something had to give and the promised ice cream cookie cake was the casualty. My heart was in the right place, but the ice cream filling was not. It oozed out the sides of the layers in an ooey gooey mess. I could not believe I was actually going to fail. For me failure is not an option, but fail I did. I disappointed Annie and I lived to tell about it. Happy Heartsong Cookie Day!
Many hugs,
Kathy
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