Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2007. Mattie was by the pool at our hotel in Coronado, California. The beauty of Mattie was he never stopped moving unless he was sick. He could have an absolutely full day of activity and yet continue moving up until bedtime. He was not a couch potato and he was not into video games, spending time in front of a computer, or a TV. Mattie was about connecting with the world, his environment, and others.
Quote of the day: Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~ Booker T. Washington
It was an incredibly HOT day in Los Angeles! If you are in the shade it isn't bad, but as soon as you step foot in the sun, it feels like you are in an oven. Now I like the heat interestingly enough, but I guess I am not used to the dry heat of California. Humid heat is very different, it is a heat I am very used to in Washington, DC!
My parents and I had a full day today and by the afternoon, I took on more planting in their backyard and mulching. That may not sound too bad but in the heat that is definitely a feat and I feel like I got my exercise for the week!
To me chocolate chip cookies from scratch are the quintessential cookie. My maternal grandma always baked these cookies for me, so whenever someone wants a cookie from me, that is literally the cookie you are going to get! Of course that was a major problem between Mattie and I, since Mattie despised CHOCOLATE! Mattie even hated chocolate when I was pregnant. So much so that when I was pregnant, chocolate made me sick to my stomach and I couldn't eat it!!! Needless to say, I never baked Mattie a chocolate chip cookie. The macaroon recipe is something my mom and I came up with on our own. We tried a lot of people's recipes, and none of them worked for us. So we branched out on our own! The recipe we use is fail safe! You can't go wrong with it, and it produces a beautiful shaped macaroon EVERY time! The NO FUSS macaroon! My kind of cookie!
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