Wookiee Cookie Weekend

We actually stayed home the whole day on Saturday and did some chores around the house.  I asked the boys if they wanted to make something, they wanted to pull out the Star Wars Cookbook that E received for Christmas this past year.  This book is full of cute ideas that kids love (and grown-ups like me love because they are easy!).  Some of our favorites are the TIE Fighter Ties (like pigs-in-a-blanket), Yoda Soda, and of course, Wookiee Cookies.  The Wookiee Cookies are basically standard chocolate chip cookies with cinnamon mixed in to give them a darker color and more flavor.  I must say, chocolate chip cookies are a lot more exciting when you can stack them up and pretend they are giant trees on Chewbacca's home planet of Kashyyyk.  They were absolutely Chewie!

Weekend in Review

This Saturday was a mission to make terrariums!  The boys and I started out in the morning with a garage sale and then a local thrift store to look for large glass jars.  We lucked out at the town thrift store.  Then, it was on to a couple of other local greenhouses and stores to collect colorful rocks, sea glass, activated charcoal, and small tropical plants.  The last two items, we checked everywhere for, and had to settle for purchasing them at a large discount store.  The boys had so much fun putting their rocks in and flattening the potting soil.  My older son is collecting garden gnomes right now.  We ordered a miniature garden gnome for him to put in his terrarium.  

Just for the record, my friend mentioned terrariums the other day and my older son wanted to do them, so it was not my idea at all.  I actually thought they sounded kind of hard until I made up my mind that we were going to do them.  I got a lot of inspiration from whimsy-girl.blogspot.com.  She has a link to a tutorial which I used.