My favorite thing in the world is…baking those pre-cut sugar cookie cubes from Pillsbury. You know the ones that require nothing but a cookie sheet and a half functioning oven. They’re perfect for those of us who are not kitchen inclined. Usually before I put them in the oven, I coat them with multi colored sprinkles, by doing this I not only guarantee who ever eats them diabetes but also I guarantee them embedded taste particles. You see when the cookies bake, they expand and the sprinkles sink into the cookie, it’s perfection. So, I let them have their needed 12 minutes in the oven, I let them fill the air with the sweet smell of deliciousness and I let them cool the recommended one minute. Then I pile them on a plate and make magnificent artwork out of my cookie canvas. Once I drew a picture of Garrett on one. Now he can say he’s eaten himself!! Ha. I’ve drawn Frankie, and sunsets- all sorts of exciting things.

Well to be perfectly honest, it wasn’t my favorite thing to do until I moved to China and realized I couldn’t do it!! I guess Chinese apartments don’t necessarily come equipped with ovens. So baking is out of the question. Which now means I have no outlet for my edible creative expressions. Unless I plan on eating my computer (which I don’t).

You don’t realize the things you’ll miss until you miss them. And I miss decorated cookies!! Well I did miss them!! Today Garrett and I went to a bakery after we went to the Passport office. There they had a case of decorated sugar cookies, just waiting to be devoured by me. Don’t get me wrong, they are not the same as my magnificent pieces of art but they’ll do.

Garrett and I got a one eyed bear, a tropical fish, a heart that says love and, a car with only one window. They were good too! Yummy cookies.

But I am still not sure what they don’t have ovens here… I am pretty sure none of the apartments we looked at came with ovens. To be honest, I didn’t even look. But I am pretty sure none of them came with ovens. I don’t remember.