No-Bake Cookies And Other Yumminess

No-Bake Cookies:

1 stick of butter
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla

Boil the first four ingredients in a large saucepan for one minute. Remove from the stove and add the remaining ingredients. Mix well. Drop by the spoonful on a lightly greased cookie sheet or wax paper. Refrigerate until hard. Enjoy!

This is my mother's recipe for No-Bake Cookies, and I haven't found anything else that compares, so I wanted to put it on here (mainly so I don't lose it like I do all my other recipes!). J was really craving some of these yesterday, so I had to track down the recipe. I finally managed to get a hold of my mom so she could give it to me. Now I'll be able to save it and pass it on to my own little girl. She already loves the cookies, too!

We're all doing really well right now. Things are still really busy, but that's what drives us. Life really isn't anything if we don't have goals to work towards, and we're all steaming along. I think J's goal is to finish out his time in the Army with as few incidences as possible. Mine are as follows: short term is to finish this class with a decent grade. Long term is to finish my degree with honors, and possibly to attend medical school. I'm not sure what Zee's goals are at this point...probably something along the lines of learning the perfect method of convincing me to give her another cookie. I'm sure she has her own toddler goals, even though she may not be able to verbalize them quite so well. So, we're all working towards that in our lives, but also towards closeness as a family. It's hard when we've each got different ideas of what we want to do with our time. We've definitely made meals together a priority, and that helps a lot. I'm trying to incorporate Zee into meal-making. She helped me chop onions yesterday (with a Pampered Chef food chopper, not a knife!), and she really enjoyed it. It's the little things like that which make me so blessed. And the big things too.