Welcome to the Cookie Jar!

I'm Scattered Mom. With no sense of direction and an inability to use a compass, I often lose my car in parking lots and take wrong turns in cities. Don't worry, I'm just taking the scenic route. I'll find my way eventually. Oh-and ya, I wear glasses.

Notes From the Cookie Jar was started three years ago after I had heard about this "blogging thing" and decided to try it. I've always loved writing and could often be found as a teenager, madly scribbling notes to my 100+ pen pals in class instead of paying attention. I thought I was multi-tasking. Nowadays people would say I was highly distracted. Writing is, to me, like breathing, which totally explains how I quickly became completely hooked on blogging.

My other, equally time consuming hobby is digital photography, which was born when Hubs gave me a nice camera. It wasn't long before the camera declared me it's slave and caused me to covet even more expensive photographic equipment.

Yes, I love to take pictures. Eventually I plan to take a course and maybe then I'll know what I'm doing. Watch out for the food pictures. They may cause the uncontrollable urge to lick your computer screen.




See? Don't say I didn't warn you.

Cookie baking is one of my many talents, and you can often find me in the kitchen slaving over lovingly preparing Hub's favorites, because otherwise he'd follow me around whining it keeps my boys happy and I actually really enjoy it. If you want some recipes, pop on over to Recipes From the Cookie Jar. Be thankful you don't know me in person because I've been known to make people gain weight.
This is Hubs. We call him the "Bird Whisperer" because no matter where we go, the feathered folk just love him. He's a real handy dandy fix it kinda guy who hates to throw anything away, which is why at one point we had a vacuum older then I was. In fact, my first post was about his inability to throw away an old TV.

He's an adventurous kinda guy. From motorcycles to scuba diving, 4x4ing, racing cars, caving and flying planes, he's pretty much done it all.




Jake is the resident teenager of the house, who keeps us on our toes with his fascination of all things scientific. He's always inventing something, conducting experiments, or dreaming about making things blow up. So far he's considering a) opening a soda company b) becoming a chemist c) buying 100 acres in South Dakota and becoming the next Mythbuster, or d) complete world domination via his computer programming skills.

He's pretty good; except when he decides to create things in my kitchen and his "recipes" go awry. I'm lucky to have such an awesome teenager of my very own; or at least, I tell myself that when he rolls his eyes and says, "Oh GAWD, Mom."

But don't tell him I said that. I need to keep up my reputation of the evil, evil, mom who forces him to do homework and unload the dishwasher.

A word about reviews:

The products mentioned in Fabulicious Friday are things that I have personally bought, tried, and loved. Some are products that I have faithfully used for years, others I have just discovered. When I write Fabulicious Friday, I also let the mentioned companies know that I have posted about their product and how much I love it, because I believe it provides them with valuable customer feedback. A few times the company has been so delighted they have sent me a free item, which has been completely unexpected.

I do not accept payment from any company to feature anything in Fabulicious Friday. If I'm sent something as a sample and I love it, I might include it, but I would also mention that it was a product sent to me.

Plain and simple? I have to love it and think that readers would love it.

My reviews are REAL and genuine.


Happy reading!

Scatteredmom.