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Halloween Cookies

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

This week is Halloween, and though I don’t really have Halloween parties in class, students bring snacks and Halloween things to class and we eat and play while we do activities that are related to the holiday.

This year was a good year for Halloween in my classes. Tuesday classes were one day before, and Wednesday class was on Halloween. That helps since lots of students are pretty focused on the holiday for that day.

One of my students at Chukyo actually made the cookies she brought to class, and that was really nice. Very nice. She’s a good kid 😉 She brought 3 cookies for each student (I think there are 10 students in that class), and they were wrapped and placed in a small paper bag for each person.

The cookies were delicious, and they looked really cute.

Here are a couple of shots. Sorry they’re a little blurry. I ate them before I realized the photos I took weren’t very clear.

Thanks, Kumi!

Tags:Chukyo, Class Students, Good Kid, Good Year, Halloween, Halloween Cookies, Halloween Parties, Photos, Snacks
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The Best Way to Eat Icing

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

A few days ago my youngest son had his birthday and we celebrated it in the usual fashion: cake and presents!

A few days before his birthday he surprised me by asking to have a turtle on his cake. Hmmm, not easy, but I told him I would give it a shot.

I tried making turtles from icing, but using fresh cream icing is too difficult to get the shapes to stay for any time, so I gave up. Might have been able to work it out if I had a little more time, but I didn’t. Luckily I had stopped by Toys R Us earlier and picked up a very nice turtle to use, just in case.

Actually I went by several places looking for something suitable, but couldn’t find anything.

The one I got is really life-like. Some people thought it was a real turtle on the cake. Come on, no way I’d ruin a perfectly delicious chocolate cake by doing that!!! 😉

I added a frog just because I thought it looked interesting and balanced things out.

Oh, about eating the icing? You’ll see what I mean in the photos below.