Eileen Lepetit

Happy Saturday! I am taking a break from grading and creating work to share a recipe for cookies I made yesterday. Quaranbaking has been challenging since finding flour is hard and I have slowed down my normal pace. I had this idea that I wanted to start a home business called Emergency Cookies where I specialized in just four kinds of cookies and delivered them locally while they were still warm. If I can find a more reliable source of flour, I may do it, but for now I will work on perfecting some recipes. Yesterday's cookies used a base recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction with my own changes. I was really happy with the results! Oatmeal Mash-Up Cookies (Based on Sally's Baking Addiction Oatmeal Scotchies) 3/4 c flour 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 stick softened butter 1/2 c packed light brown sugar 1/4 c granulated sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 tsp molasses 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/4 c old-fashioned oats 1/4 c coconut 1/4 c chopped pecans 1/2 to 3/4 c white...

CHAPTER 6 Lucas. Sweet Lucas. Poor troubled Lucas who works so hard and suffers so much with his alcoholic father and dead mother. The one with the adorable little sister and the glasses and library card. Is my Watcher. The person, I have just been informed, I must trust with my life. I may actually kill him. He seems to know that because once the aunts climb into the two Ubers they’ve summoned, he keeps his distance. “I’m sorry,” Nana says. She sits at the table looking too tired to move. “About?” “Sorry that I didn’t tell you all this sooner. But I really did hope that it would never be necessary, that you could just live a normal life - as normal as we have anyway. If I could have kept this from you if I could have.” Being powerful doesn’t strike me as having many down sides - well maybe the Ripper thing - but otherwise, I’m pretty sure it’s all plusses. Why not teach me to use my powers to their maximum potential? Our whole life could change. Instead of struggling to get by, li...