Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies

This is a recipe for gluten-free peanut butter cookies that Sadie keeps asking for and then leaves it at my house. It's very easy.

1 egg

1 cup sugar

1 tbs baking soda

1 cup peanut butter

preheat the oven to 350 and bake for 10 min.
I usually take out about 3tbs spoons of sugar.
Enjoy!!

Model Mix-ups!!

This is what we did at Caylee's house today!! Sure, it's silly and goofy, but we did have tons of fun. ;) She has this book of hairstyles and all but about two pages are really wierd looking, so we decided to cut up their features and mix and match them. First we would choose on lady as a base, and then we would find another one who's head was at about the same angle and roughly the same size, take half of her face and put it on the original picture. Then we would add random things like eyes and mouths. They look really creepy, and I must say that I would NOT want to meet one in real life. How 'bout you, Caylee?? ;)

Captions above pictures. And sorry they're so huge - I shrunk them to the smallest the would go, and they're STILL like that. Wierd.

Hers


Mine

The Giver

   This is my most recent read, as I am going to see the play in March. I don't seem to have much creative anything at the moment, so I'll write about this book. :-) (Caylee, there's not many spoilers ahead, but if you want to be surpised when you read the book, you might not want to read this post. ;)

The Giver is ultimately a distopia, but unlike other books of the same genre, the Community where the book is set seem a pleasant enough place to live - at first.

Every person is matched up to the job or spouse that seems to suit them best, and so everyone is happy - or at least, content. Anyone who does not fit in is "Released", which is generally accepted as process whereby the person is transferred to another Community which will suit him better. Everyone is polite to one another, and during the whole first half of the book there are none of those 
elements of horror that commonly pervade books of this type. The book 
follows the life of a boy named Jonas through his twelfth year, and his gradual realization that his Community is terribly lacking in the real emotion, pain, and pleasure of real life.

The book begins with Jonas being apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve, where all of the twelve year olds are given the Assignment that they will follow for the rest of their lives. A child is given four years (from eight to twelve) to figure out what kind of job would suit him best, and it is them assigned to him by the leaders of the Community, known as Elders. Jonas watches all of his friends receive perfectly ordinary Assignments, but he himself, to his bewilderment, is skipped. After all of the Assignments are taken care of, the Elders inform the whole Community that Jonas has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory - that is, Memories from before the whole "perfect" Community life was imposed. Jonas receives his training from the old Receiver, now known as the Giver. While this is going on, the reader realizes how different the life in the Community actually is.

He [the Giver] rested for a moment, breathing deeply. "I'm so weighted with them [the Memories]" he said.
Jonas felt a terrible concern for the man, suddenly.
"It's as if...." The man paused, seeming to search his mind for the right words of description. "It's like going downhill through deep snow on a sled," he said finally. "At first it's exhilarating; the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you go slow, and you push hard to keep going, and--"
He shook his head suddenly, and peered at Jonas. "That meant nothing to you, did it?" he asked.
Jonas was confused. "I didn't understand it, sir."
"Of course you didn't. You don't know what snow is, do you?"
Jonas shook his head.
"Or a sled? Runners?"
"No, sir." Jonas said.
"Downhill? The term means nothing to you?"
"Nothing, sir."

And so Jonas receives his first memory: a ride downhill on a sled. This opens a whole new world for him; and the one of the most shocking things for both Jonas and the reader is the realization that through the entire book so far, the characters have never seen color. The Giver explains how Sameness was the goal of the people who started the Community, and how they genetically changed the people so that they only saw shades of grey. Jonas has seen flashed of color occasionally; this is one of the things that marks him as different - able to receive the memories. Through the multitude of memories the Giver imparts to him, Jonas learns about pain, war, suffering, and cruelty; but at the same time about true happiness, joy, and love. As Jonas gains richer and richer knowledge, the more does he pity his friends and family; destined to be born, live, and die without knowing any real emotions. As he gradually finds out about the horrifying things going on just beneath the surface of the community, (particularly what the term "Release" really means) he and the Giver make a desperate plan. Somehow they must share these memories and emotions with the whole population. But how? And will Jonas survive?

(Note: the ending of this book is deliberately ambiguous. If anyone who reads this post and has read the book could share an opinion on it, that would be great!!)

P.S. I posted this on my public blog, too, for the benefit of those poor people who can read this one. ;)