You Gotta Laugh - "Vanilla extract … smells like perfume"

Grandson Jacob hung way out in the ‘burbs at Camp Grandma for a few days recently. I raised my hand skyward to volunteer when our Katie couldn’t find him a summer camp the week of 4th of July. The 5-year-old is a delightful soccerball full of energy. After creating and filling up an Excel spreadsheet full of activities, I deemed myself over-prepared!
At the top of my list was one of my personal favorite activities … baking cookies. Everyone wins with homemade cookies. The entire project takes hours. Pop-pop and Jacob get a delicious treat when the cookie sheets are carefully lifted out of the oven. It’s just for looks, but I lay a flyswatter beside the cooling cookies to ward off big and little thieving fingers lookin’ to lift cookies before they are ready for munching.

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