Had a playdate today. My friend Victoria brought her two kids. Victoria likes chocolate. This I know from our many discussions of food and the joy to be found therein. Now, I can't say that I came up with the idea out of the blue, but I made it sound like it. "Let's make cookies!" I exclaimed just minutes into the playdate. So I made a batch of my favorite standby chocolate chip oatmeal cookies (known to many of you as "Grandma cookies"). Three adults and four children devoured every morsel within three hours. Gone.

And kudos to our IT guy Michael who has both of our computers up and running on our T1 connection. It took him about 12.85 seconds to get it going. Impressive.