Biscuit braggin'

I've been baking bisuits.  Really, really good made-from-scratch biscuits.

My biscuits have finally, finally become as close to my mother's as I can get them! 

My mom makes the best biscuits.  She learned from watching her mother and I learned from watching her.  I had occasion to make some recently for a potluck breakfast at work, and since it had been awhile since I'd made homemade biscuits I had to make a couple pans two days before just to make sure I could still do it!  They were great!!  Light and flaky on the inside, nicely browned on top and crispy around the edges.  Melt-in-your-mouth good!  And when I say made-from-scratch, that's what I mean.  No mixes, not even a recipe.  Just made from practice and from knowledge ingrained in me from standing at my mother's side helping to knead, pat out and cut the dough (and always allowed to cut and shape one special one "just for me".).  Now I can't wait to make some for my Mom (who always said she liked my biscuits, anyway), and my sisters.  Will they be able to tell if they're mine or Mom's?  I'm very proud of these biscuits.  I've tried for years to get just the right texture and taste!  It's always great when you reach a goal, isn't it?

Tomorrow is the kids' last day of school until the new year.  It will be nice not having to get them up for school for two weeks.

We are still working a lot of overtime.  Our counts are still high and we still have a lot of new people. (I'm doing an orientation with 9 new ones tomorrow, as a matter of fact.)  I guess I'll enjoy the overtime money while it lasts!  We can always use it.

A friend of ours recently had back surgery and isn't able to get up and around much yet.  So I cooked several things over the weekend and took them to her.  They've been eating mostly sandwiches and opening cans.  (She's a single mom with two young sons.)  She isn't supposed to stand or sit.  She can walk or lie down.  The surgery was very low on her back, just above her tailbone.  At some point in her life (probably during a marriage with a guy who liked to throw her around) she had actually broken her backbone down there, and only a few months ago found out about it.  She's fortunate that she caught it when she did.  Anyway, I left them a few homecooked meals in their freezer.  (Including biscuits!!  Hah!)  I'm about cooked-out though.  Tired from the overtime and this cold weather.  I'm ready for a break!