WINNING AT THE COUNTY FAIR

A couple years ago, Kamille was staying with her Aunt Leasa during our County Fair and while Aunt Leasa was making her 5 million fair entries, she decided to let Kamille enter some no-bake cookies, which earned her a 2nd place red ribbon. So, since then, Kamille has continued to bug me about wanting to take this little journey again. So, this year, I got brave and decided to undertake this project (at one point, I would not have called it a project, rather a NIGHTMARE!). After a full day of frustration, wiping up raw egg from my kitchen floor and my youngest daughter, calling Aunt Leasa a million times to ask questions about the rules & regulations, and one very frantic call to my mother that involved a LOT of crying, we finally sent 2 plates of cookies to the fair with Aunt Leasa to be entered in the Junior Cooking Division. Kamille(10) chose peanut butter cookies and Keanna (8) chose chocolate chip cookies. Since I'm NOT Martha Stewart and I'm NOT Aunt Leasa, I didn't really expect we would win anything so I had a chat with the girls about "you are not going to win everything in life" and "we just have to be content knowing we did our best" and "we'll learn from our mistakes for next year". At this point in the conversation, Keanna informed me that she was sure we weren't going to win anything. Kamille chimes in and says "Sissy, you have to think positive!" Keanna replies with "I am thinking positive...I'm positive we're not going to win any prizes!" So, off to the fair we go to see what the judges thought about our cookies. Imagine the smiles, shrieking, and high-fives when we approach the display case and find blue ribbons on BOTH girls' cookies. Once again I say, I'm not Martha, and I ain't Leasa, but apparently I absorbed some sort of baking skill from my mother. Needless to say, the girls are already planning what they want to enter next year. I'm sure glad there are 360 days between now and then!!! Good Job Girls and THANKS to Aunt Leasa and Grandma McIntyre for keeping Mom sane through all of this.