Who has shown you a father’s love?  Do you see it in watching your husband fish with your kids?  Do you feel it when your father-in-law teaches you how to replace your brake pads?  Do you feel when your brother tells you he is proud of you?  We want to hear about the “Fathers” in your life.  (Keep in mind, this does not have to be your biological father.  This can be ANYONE who has shown you a father’s love.  A grandpa, coach, friend, brother…)  We want to celebrate that person in you life by helping to win them FREE COOKIES!  If the father isn’t local (La Grange/Lockport-ish Illinois) we will ship the winning cookies FOR FREE too!  Take a look below to determine which Father’s Day cookies remind you most of your nominee.

Now, how to enter:

1. Share this post on your Facebook page.
2. “Like” the Bakeosaurus Rex Facebook page.
3. Post a picture of the person you are nominating (only one nominee per person) on the Bakeosaurus Rex Facebook Page with a caption telling us WHY they are you’re nominee/why they should win the cookies. (How have they shown you a father’s love, and what makes them the fabulously wonderful person they are.) including #FreeCookies4Fathers (be sure the spelling and such is correct)
4. Mention the cookies you are trying to win for them.  (if you need a reminder of their names, look below)

Want a second entry?

1. Follow Bakeosaurus Rex on Instagram
2. Share a picture of the person you are nominating (with caption telling us WHY) @BakeosaurusRex on Instagram including #FreeCookies4Fathers #HappyFathersDay and #BakeosaurusRex
3. Be sure to mention the cookies you are trying to win for them.

How do I WIN!!!!

The nominated picture with the most LIKES (on the Bakeosaurus Rex Facebook Page PLUS on Insagram) will win their selected cookies for their nominee.  (Encourage your friends and family to “like” the picture, (you “share” the picture from the Bakeosaurus Rex Facebook page to your own wall also to ensure all your friends see it).

Details: Contest runs from Wednesday May 25th Central Time till Wednesday June 8th 7pm Central Time. Collect the most “likes” In those 14 days and WIN!!!! Winner will be notified Thursday June 9th by 7am Central Time.  

HAVE FUN!!!

It has been a completely amazing experience working out of the shared kitchen.  I have learned SO MUCH, and my cookies SOLD OUT my first week!!!

Let’s back it up, it hasn’t all been sunshine and rainbows…

This has been a period of relearning.

I fought (through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit!) feelings of defeat and frustration as I relearned EVERYTHING.

(Let me also say, My husband has been very supportive, my mother-in-law has been very generous with her time, watching the boys, and the owner has been SO HELPFUL! She and the other business owners through the kitchen are great!)

I am relearning everything, from baking times and temps to my routine of chill-roll-cut-bake, which has now become chill-room temperaturize-roll-chill-cut-bake.

Cutouts and Dino Grahams relearned, I shall tackle my other treats some other time.

I also learned exactly HOW LONG everything takes.

Like how long it takes for Royal Icing to dry.  At home I would just come back to my project in the morning. It takes HOURS, lots of hours to dry.

Decorating also takes hours.

The whole process takes days! Hahah! Which I guess I never paid much attention to before.  One day to make and chill the dough.  One day to bake the cookies.  One (sometimes two) day(s) to decorate.  (Half a day to dry) One day to package.  It truly is a labor of love and boy do I LOVE IT!

Thank you to everyone who has visited United Kitchen, and those who have supported my business through prayer, purchases, and pre-orders!

Sincerely,

Bakeosaurus Rex

Photo Credit: Bridget Conlan

Prior to meeting (and coming to love) my Uncle (in-law) Rick and Father-in-law Dale, Father’s Day wasn’t a very happy day for me.  When my ONE (RoboHubs) had HIS first Father’s Day, it was a TOTAL game changer.  (FATHER’S DAY POST: To Be Continued…)

Here is a sneak peek at tomorrow’s Father’s Day Options/Contest/Blog Post:

One of the fun Father’s Day Finds!  Anyhow this set of cutters came in a cute little box, the backing looked like peg board, instantly I feel in LOVE! Working on some Birthday Treats you will see Saturday, I had some extra dough so I thought I would open my tools and play… ONLY TO FIND a new recipe on the back.  Realizing it was one I had never tried, I HAD TO try it right then and there, I just happened  to have ALL of the ingredients (it takes WAY MORE “things” than MY recipe) Phoebe was over playing with Elijah, Judah was sleeping, RoboHubs was happily watching SportsCenter, WHY NOT, RIGHT!?!!

Fast forward through the making, rolling, chilling, cutting, chilling, baking, cooling PROCESS they were DONE!  I took one to my husband and said, “This MIGHT change everything we’ve come to know about cookies!” he took a bite and said “OH! It really does change everything I’ve ever known about cookies” DEVASTATED thinking I was going to have to re-bake the 60 birthday treats I had JUST FINISHED he continues, “I never thought I’d come across a cookie I didn’t care for” RELIEVED and lesson learned:

“If it ain’t broke, DON’T fix it!” – Bert Lance

How cool to have learned that lesson on a set of TOOLS! Hahaha!!

DISCLAIMER: I am SURE there are people who use the pictured recipe above and love it!  Another thing I have come to learn while baking is not only are you going to learn something new every time you turn your oven on, BUT also there are a LOT of “personal preference” type situations.  I am sure there are millions of people who LOVE cookies baked with this recipe.  It just isn’t our personal favorite.  If you use it, and enjoy it, and it works for you, reference the name of this post and DON’T “fix” IT!

]]> http://bakeosaurusrex.com/2015/06/10/if-it-aint-brokedont-fix-it/feed/ 0 998 http://bakeosaurusrex.com/2015/06/06/supersaurusrex/ http://bakeosaurusrex.com/2015/06/06/supersaurusrex/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2015 21:00:02 +0000 http://bakeosaurusrex.com/?p=985

There is no such thing as a SupersaurusRex

I have been receiving a lot of comments lately like. “Wow! I don’t know how you do it all!, blogging, baking, two small children, caring for your husband on top of everything else!” “Wow! You are super mom you can do it all!” “Wife of the year! I could never do what you do” though these comments are meant to be compliments, let me tell you what I tell them:

There is no such thing as a SupersaurusRex. Okay so that is not exactly what I say but it is the truth.

Blogging-while my husband napped in the hospital, I implemented a trick I learned from the ever so talented and fellow blogger Nicole Nelson (she is amazing. Check her out) The advice was to write when you can and schedule the publish dates/times of your posts. She then recommended having the posts automatically post to Facebook. I took that advice. Thus, blogging done for a few weeks. Thanks, Nicole.

Two small children– I happen to have in-laws that are fabulously amazing. My mother-in-law is retired. My father-in-law works nights. My sister-in-law lives with them. With their powers combined (little Captain Planet reference anyone?) and their gracious, willing hearts and their overwhelming love (I could go on and on) they have been caring for our children since the night before we went in for hip replacement surgery.  They just got home today (they are currently napping.)  Elijah and I had T-Ball this morning.

(By the way. When your oldest son cries when he sees you because he thinks that means his sleepover party is over and he has to go home. Don’t be offended. Be blessed, your children are not crying because they need you/miss you and you cannot be there for them. Be happy! You’re raising confident, comfortable children who have amazing people in their lives that love them just as much as you do (in a different way of course). Be excited they want to stay with grandma. It takes a village, right?? It’s okay to be relieved as well.)

Baking (okay more specifically decorating) – this has become my stress reliever. If I don’t have any projects going on. I make one up, haha like let’s say, a few Blackhawks contests. Since lifting is out of the question as RoboHubs aka my Fall Risk cannot be left unattended baking/decorating it is. (When he is napping of course). So kids at grandmas + napping RoboHubs = baking/decorating stress relieving mama.

Taking care of your husband– in sickness and in health, right? Unconditional love. Just think about how HUMBLING having to be taken care of is. Wouldn’t change anything for the world.

“Everything else” – hahaha I am not doing everything else. In fact I’m not doing anything else, and you know what? That is ok.

The mountain of clean laundry that is cascading off my folding table will eventually get (tossed into the drier with a damp towel to release some of them wrinkles then,) folded and put away.

The Christmas lights (don’t judge!) will eventually get taken down.

The clippings from the bushes you trimmed out front will eventually get swept. (UPDATE! My in-laws took care of this while I was at t-ball! YAY!)

It’s okay to ask your family friend over to hang with RoboHubs aka FallRisk while you run to the grocery store (what do you mean a solid diet of fruit snacks and lucky charms is not conducive to healing?)

It’s okay to cry out on social media requesting paper towel because you’ve already arranged for someone to sit with your fall risk to shop that day and the paper towel you thought you had was actually toilet paper (also very necessary).

Allow your neighbor to cut your grass.

Don’t be embarrassed when you see your mother-in-law taking out your garbage or changing your kitty litter.

Allow your friends to cook for you. Allow them to bring you coffee. It is not only you who is being blessed in these situations.

So all that being said, let me tell you what I’ve learned. To be a SupersaurusRex you must accept help from your family and friends. Let yourself be blessed by others. You CANNOT do it all.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. People don’t know what you want/need. Just ask. It doesn’t show a weakness in you. It shows a great strength.

Most importantly. Turn your face up and give the glory and thanksgiving for all of the wonderful people doing amazing things for you and your family back to He who orchestrated it all.

Humble yourself. There is no SupersaurusRex.