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Galentine’s Cut-Out Cookies

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Throwback photo to 2014, our first Galentine’s cookies

Recipe:

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 baking powder

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 1/2 sticks butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

Splash of vanilla extract

Mix all of the above, then cut out shapes and place on pans with parchment paper, bake at 325 for 13-16 minutes.

Sisters- a couple of cookies cut from the same dough 💕

For icing– Mix 4 cups powdered sugar, 5 tablespoons warm water, 3 tablespoons meringue powder and blend well. Use something nontoxic to color the icing like Watkins without dye. Whatever you do, don’t try to be fancy and make your own food dye out of some microwaved / strained frozen raspberries, thereby ultimately adding too much liquid to the icing mix, but running out of powdered sugar to thicken it- creating a delicious but watery icing mess that drips off your cookies. Or go right ahead, because really there are no rules and it’s the fun that counts (not the outcome)!

Happy Galentine’s!

‘honey, I love you’ — that’s all she wrote

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This is not a pregnancy announcement.
Cat, apply liberally and repeat as needed.
Dates and cacao and avocado.
From a friend, delivered by a florist who handed me the flowers and squeezed my shoulder in that way that says “you’re gonna be ok.”
Getting my feet back under me.
Feeling like myself a little bit more… ‘Knowledge is power’ forever and ever.

1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss.

Most miscarriages happen before 10 weeks of gestation.

There is no universal way that this unfolds and experiences can vary greatly woman to woman in terms of symptoms, pain, distress, length of time involved in the process and time to full recovery.

Most women who miscarry will go on to have a subsequent healthy pregnancy later.

May we all heal from the things we don’t talk about.