A low-ball offer

We got an offer on the old house but is was inconsiderably low. ($45,000 less than our asking price . . . hello. That's a big difference.) Bryce and our realtor, Leslie, say it's just part of playing the game and I do agree, though I'm still offended (!). We countered but the deal fell flat.

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Today I went to ward council, where I discovered that the RS is doing an adult-only Christmas dinner-and-a-program party the night before our family Christmas dinner-and-a-program party. Bluh. Thanks for stealing our super way-original idea. Oh, and for planning it the night before ours. Bryce thought that maybe doing a Sunday night fireside in the chapel and desserts after might be a good Plan B. It seems that I remember having something like that in Kingwood, a musical Christmas fireside. But was that the actual ward party?

I handed out 72 cookies in Primary today for "cookie Sunday." I was in charge of making them. In case you didn't know, I really, really dislike baking cookies. I wasn't going to babysit the oven for a couple of hours, so I picked up some "gourmet" chocolate chip cookies at Costco. I think spending $18 was worth it. The cookies were really good, and get this: when I was looking at the ingredients label later, I noticed the 2nd and 3rd ingredients in the chips were chocolate liquor and hydrolized chocolate liquor. Wooooooo! Bottoms up, kids.