Baking with Sister Beasley

Today is Sunday. We had an uplifting fast and testimony meeting, an enlightening sunday school lesson on Noah and our modern-day arks, and a spiritually moving lesson on having a gospel-sharing home. Came home from church and looked through the coupons which "inspired" me to make brownies. Not from scratch just the Betty Crocker-and-me kind. I did use powdered eggs and water and they were just as good as if I used fresh. Then I took as afternoon nap. I don't usually take those but the history channel will do that to me. ha ha
Anyway, this evening I got a call from an eight year old girl from church. It went like this. "Sister Beasley, this is Angela Lamarche I have an assignment for school and mom is going visiting teaching and Dad doesn't know how to make cookies, Can I come make snickerdoodles with you?" I said sure and asked if she had a recipe or if I should find one and she said I could find one. This gave me the perfect opportunity to try this snickerdoodle recipe using half wheat flour and powdered eggs. She came over with her box which contained her assignment wearing her little sunday dress and I said, "Your going to need an apron" and she pulled one out of her little box that her crafty mother had made. It was beautiful. She had a social studies assignment where she was supposed to take something that interested her(cooking) and find 4-5 primary sources and 1-2 secondary sources and put them in a box. It was hard to decide what a secondary source would be for cooking but we decided that her own personal recipe book would be one. Anyway, I got to show her how we grind wheat to make flour and the difference between whole wheat flour and the bleached white flour from the store. She measured all the ingredients and I worked the mixer. I scooped the cookies and she rolled them in the cinnamon and sugar and we baked them. All the while she was attentive and talkative and it was a delightful evening and the cookies came out GREAT. I told her she could come bake with me anytime she wanted. I had a couple of these little recipe card holders put away in my gift closet so I labeled one with her name and told her to keep all her tried-n-true recipes in it. I wrote out the instructions for this cookie and put it in there and you would have thought I gave her a real treasure. When I took her home, I told her dad she could come anytime and bake with me. Then her older sister spoke up and said if she had a book like that she would put a recipe for ranger cookies in it and did I know how to make biscuits? When I said yes, she turned to her dad and said "Can I go next time??" Her dad said maybe we will have to make it a tradition and baking with Sister Beasley day was created. I never think to take pictures. If this takes off I promise to take pictures but so you can see the recipe book I got one ready for Lindsey and took a picture for you.