Hello everyone!
Needless to say I was thrilled when I discovered that I did not have school for another day today! (Especially since I don't have to make snow days up as a senior!) Mom, the crazy woman thought that she would get home from work at about 10 in the morning and she would just bake as many cookies as she could. This concerned me since we had over 600 cookies to bake! But since I didn't have school, we tag teamed to crank out all of the cookies, package them, and make labels. We started just short of 10 this morning and worked until about 5 in the afternoon. We must admit that we semi-stopped for a lunch break while some cookies were in the oven. That makes glorious hours of baking fun! All sarcasm aside though, I think that we were both very glad for the other person. We had a pretty good system: One person would remove cookies from a pan and fill them then put them in and we would rotate. So, you would work for about 15 minutes and then go do whatever you wanted for the next 15. We had lots of lists, sticky notes, and used our calculator a lot to try to keep organized. At the beginning of the week we were a little worried about how we were going to transport this massive amount of baked goods to Iowa State on Saturday. One household can only have so much tupperware. (Even a house like ours.) After much consideration, we decided that we could not and would not put up with 50 styrafoam boxes rubbing together for some 3 hours. So we used all 4 of our large tupperware boxes and then packed the rest in gallon Ziploc bags and placed them in my under the bed Rubbermaid storage box. We are very glad that we are done and have decided that we will never accept this many cookie orders in one week again!
Fascinating Stats
612 Cookies
41 pans of cookies
7 hours
9.5 lbs of butter used
10- the minimum number of times we stopped to recalculate
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