After last night's fevered rush home (involving all flights to NYC being cancelled and our getting last minute on a plane to Baltimore and then racing to catch the last Amtrak train to Penn Station and arriving safe and sound at 3AM), I woke up this morning and decided there would be nothing better to do than to make chocolate chip cookies today. This is one of my favorite things about being home - the fact that i can just wake up and decide to cook or bake something and, if it's something simple, we will most likely have the ingredients and the equipment needed.

Right now I'm waiting for the butter to soften up (I always manage to forget about the butter until the last minute and then have to wait impatiently while it slowly softens) but more on this later...