The last day....

Today was the last day for our kids in Ontario for school. Dalton took cookies for a treat for their party. These cookies are so good. They are called high altitude cookies. They are very similar to chocolate chip brownies, but a cookie. If you just want plain chocolate cookies just omit the cocoa. Here is the recipe.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup cocoa ( if desired)

DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, stir together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Mix in eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt ( cocoa if desired); stir into the batter just until blended, then mix in the chocolate chips so they are evenly distributed. Drop cookies by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets spacing 2 inches apart.
Bake in the preheated oven until the edges begin to turn golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Allow cookies to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

They are so good! Crunchy on the outside but moist in the middle and not flat and dry.

Dalton also took some special treats for his friends, his class and all the children on the bus. He asked me to do something nice for them. Since they were all so good to him when his house burnt down. So I made them all little suckers in chocolate. It is tedious and takes a lot of time but I know all the kids like them. I made a combination of happy faces, tractors, dump trucks, bulldozers, and heart suckers. We put little tags on all the bags with a little thank you from Dalton. He had one for every child in his class and Ada the bus driver took him along the whole route tonight so he could give one to every child on the bus too. Then she dropped him back home.

Ada is the best bus driver ever. We love he so. She is so good with all the kids who ride her bus. When the house burnt down, she started a little collection bag for Dalton. The kids on the bus raised almost $100.00 for him. We let him keep it for something he wanted. He put it in the bank for now but I'm sure when he finds something special he will not think twice to get it. Not to mention all the toys that they collected for both the kids.

So Thank you to all those special kids who thought of Dalton, to Ada for just being herself and thinking of others, and to each of the kids in his class who supported him with toys etc.

I cannot Thank everyone enough. It continues to overwhelm us what people will do.

So Thank You all.