Baking in a different kind of oven :)

Between this blog and the baking blog Meg and I have, I've blogged about my craft group several times. They're some of my closest friends in Florida, and it killed me to not tell them the *big news* at the craft fair we participated in the week after I found out we were expecting.

But I wanted to wait until after our first appointment, and I wanted to tell them in a creative way. We had a cookie party/exchange scheduled for the next weekend, so after all looked good at our first appointment, I decided to launch Operation: Try To Bake Even Though You're Nauseous. This particular operation called for the most simple cookie recipe I could think of, as I didn't have the stomach or time (because of all that SLEEP I need nowadays!) to make anything complex.


I went with the recipe for Cakies, and I had some white cake mix in the house. I had purchased some pink and blue chocolate candies for this operation, and I mixed them equally in to the batter. Then I baked them, put them in a covered pan and headed off to the cookie party.


When I arrived, I told the girls my cookies had a message. They looked at them. One friend, Lisa, looked at me, wide-eyed, and asked, "Really?!" I said yes. The others continued to peer at the cookies. One asked if they were fortune cookies. Lisa demanded that everyone figure it out fast before she blurted it out. Finally, another woman said, "Well, they're pink and blue."

Then the light bulb went on at the same time for about eight women standing in a cozy kitchen :)

Amid hugs and congratulations, I explained to them that we were still early, and that I'd wanted to tell them the week before but wasn't ready. The last few months have brought the crafting group several babies, so we're looking forward to spending time with the next generation of crafty little people :)