Secret Subject Swap: Just Once

Welcome to another Secret Subject Swap. This week 12 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts.

My subject is: Just once I wish               would stop                   and let me                before I lose my mind. It was submitted by Dinosaur Superhero Mommy.

Just once I wish all  the ingredients that I know I bought would stop disappearing from the fridge and let me get through dinner without returning to the store before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish this family would stop wearing clothes and let me catch up on the damn laundry before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish these hot flashes would stop hot flashing and let me breathe before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish narcissistic celebrities would stop taking compromising selfies that they KNOW some moron will steal and let me see some real news before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish the kitchen equipment I need would stop hiding and let me find it with a minimal amount of swearing before I lose my mind.

  Thanksgiving Gobble Cookies

Just once I wish my allergies would stop making me sneeze my brains out and let me use the one or two brain cells that I have left before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish bars would stop refusing my delivery requests and let me order take-out before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish College Boy would stop using every ounce of gas I have and let me go somewhere . . . ANYWHERE . . . without having to stop at the gas station before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish PurDude would stop being so cryptic and let me actually get a sentence out of him before I lose my mind.

Just once I wish “all parts included” would stop meaning “we only stuck some parts in the box just to screw with you” and let me put a project together without spending hours looking for that last piece before I lose my mind.

Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:

The Momisodes

Spatulas on Parade

Stacy Sews and Schools

Dinosaur Superhero Mommy

Climaxed

Someone Else's Genius

The Bergham's Life Chronicles

Confessions of a part-time working mom
Silence of the Mom 
Crumpets and Bollocks 
Sparkly Poetic Weirdo 

Thanksgiving Gobble Cookies

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Printable Recipe 

Ingredients (makes 30 - 36 cookies):
1/2 stick butter, softened
1/2 stick margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 TBSP baking cocoa
orange food coloring (1 part red to three parts yellow)
1 TBSP flour
mini M&Ms, approximately 72
sunflower seeds (shelled), approximately 36
candy corn, approximately 144 pieces

chocolate jimmies (sprinkles)

Directions:
*Beat butter, margarine and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour, baking powder and salt.
*Divide dough into 2 fairly equal sections.
*Add orange food coloring and the 1 TBSP flour to one part. To the other, add the baking cocoa.
*Roll out each dough segment (separately) between 2 pieces of wax paper to about 9 X 11 inches.
*Carefully flip the orange layer on top of the chocolate layer, lining it up as evenly as possible. Lay them flat in the refrigerator and chill approximately 1 hour.
*Trim the edges of the dough where they don't overlap if you choose. Using the wax paper to help you, roll up the dough (the long side) until you have a tube shaped round.
*Roll the round in chocolate jimmies.
*Wrap the dough roll in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.
*Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Put parchment paper onto baking sheet.
*Slice the roll into approximately 1/4 inch slices. In the center of each cookie, press 2 mini M&Ms for eyes and a sunflower seed just below for a beak.
*Bake for approximately 12 minutes.
*Remove from oven and quickly press 3 - 4 candy corn "feathers" into the top of each cookie, small end sticking into the cookie to secure it.
*Let sit on baking sheet for 1 - 2 minutes before removing to cool completely.