Evil Cookie

This cookie did not start out so evil.  Daddy's intent was to do something opposite of a pumpkin coloring, an inversion of colors.  The orange goes to the facial design and the black to the rest of the pumpkin.  So he lined up these little orange pumpkins to make a cute smiling face on a nice black background, and all was so well to begin with.

But then it went into the oven.  And something horrible happened therein.  The cookie emerged from the oven, so frightening we feel it would have to be kept away from small children, and possibly older people with heart problems.

Yeah, the cute little orange pumpkins melted and created the most sinister cookie I've ever helped create.  Fortunately, there were other more successful cookies created.  And as what we call Providence would have it, a delivery was made to our house exactly at the time the oven was heated up for cooking these cookies.  And lo, what as delivered?  A little over a month ago, Daddy gave a kid some money for a fund raiser for his band - he was selling cookies, and Daddy spotted the ones with monsters on them, thinking they would be fun for Halloween.  They were delivered at exactly the right time!  Here they are:

Madison and Daddy had a bit of a cookie assembly line going, making all kinds of sweet themed cookies, all to be saved for our pumpkin carving party tomorrow.  Except a few.  Which we ate.  Here are a few that Madison made, all except the evil pumpkin you can see lurking on this baking sheet.

We had some themed movies playing, like "Scared Shrekless" and of course "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."  Mommy is cooking her incredible chili too - and we've got all kinds of cider, including pumpkin cider as well.  Tomorrow, we'll be cooking pumpkin seeds as well, which are always awesome!

We pulled out the long tables and set them out on the back deck - tomorrow's weather will be absolutely perfect.  In the afternoon, everyone will arrive, and it will be a wonderful gathering.  Madison islooking forward to it as much as Daddy and Mommy are!

So today was our big pitch for the Christmas play, and it is official:  Daddy wrote the script for Free Chapel's Christmas play this year.  Production starts soon - in fact, the auditions are tomorrow morning at the church, so Daddy will be at a desk like Simon, judging all these performers that walk in, trying to impress the judges.