Fruit Fly Bait & Pumpkin Cookies

It's time to kill fruit flies that are bombarding the kitchen right on cue, once again.  Just pour some apple cider vinegar into a cup, squirt some dish soap into it and add water until there are bubbles on top.  The flies will fly straight to a bubbly death almost instantly.  They get into the bubbles, but cannot get out.  See that ugly kitchen window of ours?  Who know how many years ago, someone put some window tint on it.  

Now it looks like some sort of stained glass gone wrong, right?  Oh well. 

 We created two booklets yesterday.  One was about long things.

The other was about short things.

This was a bit harder for them to grasp.  They clearly understand tall and short, big and little, but for some reason the long and short concepts were harder. 

We worked through it together. :)

They enjoyed "reading" their little books about long and short.

I enjoyed cutting up the worksheet and repurposing it. 

I baked some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.  Sweets for the sweets. 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon

1 heaping teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp milk

1 tbsp vanilla

2 cups chocolate chips

**The original recipe doesn't call for pumpkin pie spice, but I always add it anyway.**

**I also ALWAYS add more chocolate chips.**

Drop by the spoonful onto a cookie sheet.  Bake for ten minutes at 350 degrees.  These are wonderfully moist, cakey cookies that are crowd pleasers.  Store in between sheets of wax paper, because they will stick together.  They are GREAT when chilled in the fridge, too.

♥♥♥Happy Thursday!♥♥♥