Tonight, I made ugly cookies

On the to do list tonight was to make shamrock cookies for my brother-in-law's party this weekend.  I don't have a go to recipe for cookies, I would like to be the person that pulls out their worn cookbook, or recipe file holder, and retrieves the tried and true, perfect sugar cookie recipe.  But I'm the 'what can I do without going to the store' person, the allrecipes.com cook.  The result? Cookies that were shamrock shaped until baked, then they just melted together into flat awkward shaped blobs, which I topped with green icing to complete the perfectly ugly shamrock cookie.  The girls made few disparaging remarks, wisely opting to eat, rather then critique. There were countless events in my community tonight. A meeting with some women in leadership positions last evening made me feel like I should be going to at least one of those events. I'm sure I would have enjoyed them, networked a little and perhaps caught up on the latest in current affairs. My absence at those events tonight didn't win me any points in the 'leave your mark on society category', and I truly do want to be that person, someday. But, tonight I made ugly cookies with my girls, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.