. 9/365 .

i made these cookies last night for my mister's basketball team.  and, yes, there's a story behind them.  here's my version.  so, he coaches jr. high basketball.  he has an A team and a B team.  i have had no clue how many boys there were, i just assumed it wouldn't be a big deal ... because one day he came home and said "you know, coach cantu's wife gives his players cookies after every game."  background ... cantu is the 7th grade coach and has coached for 3 years.  so every game, for 3 years, she has made cookies for the boys.  then i get "you know, she puts them in ziploc baggies and puts inspirational quotes from famous coaches on them too."  seriously?  this lady is making me look BAD.  and because of who i am, i planned on making this BIG.  i originally planned on making sugar cookies with basketballs made out of icing on the tops.  yeah, that's a little overboard.  but i did make homemade sugar cookies.  like, with my kitchenaid and all.  i thought "heck with ziploc baggies, i'm gonna go to michael's and buy those treat bags that tie."  and then, "heck with putting a plain jane quote on the ziploc bags, mine is gonna be C-UTE!" 

so, when it came down to it, and i am hand making cookies at 9:00 at night, easy does it.  they did each get two cookies.  the bags got tied.  and a quote got placed on them.  they were okay.  definitely not as if they would have been for a group of girls though.  my mister didn't understand that either, i'm sure.  seriously, my thought process was "these are for boys and they don't care.  all they want is the cookies."  next time, i may use ziplocs.  BUT it turned out great.  and i was so glad i did it.  this counted as my act of kindess #10 out of the 30 i am doing this month.  next week, i gotta step up my game though.  sugar cookies?  i gotta go big.