Delicious oreo balls

V had an Easter party at school yesterday and she signed up to bring sweets.  So she decided to make her famous chocolate chip cookies and oreo balls!  Wedneday after school we came home, she was on one side of the kitchen and I was on the other, she was making her cookies and I was making the oreo balls. Oh, my heart was going pitter patter as we worked together, talking and laughing and doing some much needed bonding.  And what better place than in the kitchen!
For dads and sons, bonding might happen in the woods hunting, in the garage tinkering around or working on a car together or maybe at the ball field.  I can't come up with very many ideas (I am not a dad nor do I have a son!!)  haha 
But I do know that for moms and daughters, our bonding could happen in the kitchen over cooking/baking, in the salon during a pedicure or manicure, or in the mall shopping (unless your daughter is V and she would rathe die than go shopping!)  For her, we would have to bond at a Petco or animal shelter!!  My girl loves her animals!!
So, now that you have such a delightful picture of us calmly bonding as we baked together, let me cue you into what else was going on.  About every 20 seconds or so I was running into the laundry room, (politely) raising my voice at H to stop feeding the dog.  (Now that we have little Leo, H thinks it is her mission to make sure Leo has enough food and that he eats it.  She actually carries his water bowl and food bowl to wherever he is in the house or outside and puts it down right next to him.  The she proceeds to hand feed him, piece by piece. Arrrgh.)  Anyway, you would've thought after running in there and asking her to stop for a 1/2 hour, I would've just picked up the food bowl, water bowl and the large storage bin of dog food and put it out of her reach.  But of course, I never thought of that.

Secondly, it was during a really bad thunderstorm so there was lots of lightening, thunder and rain and H kept opening up the back door and letting hersef and the dog out and I kept running outside to the porch to again (politely) tell her to get back inside. (I was so scared she would get struck by lightening!!)

So, I came up with the brilliant idea to turn on the tv and put some cartoons on to keep her distracted (she is really not a tv watcher but I thought I would try, I was getting desperate!!) Well, the little precious thing decided to turn off the kitchen lights, so it got really dark and I thought the power went out. I didn't know at this time that it was H turning off the lights, so I declared to V "oh great, this is just what we need- the power to go out!"   She very calmly said "mom, if the power went out, the tv wouldn't be on and my mixer wouldn't be running.  It is just H playing with the light switch!"  Oh My Goodness!!!  I just about lost my mind!!
So,there you have it!  The cookies were baked and the oreo balls made and they were delicious!  But most importantly, I think some really precious memories were created that day also.

To finish off the afternoon, V made her easter eggs for her

school party.  What a blessed afternoon of

making memories with my girls. Thank You, Lord!

Oreo Balls

I am so bummed- with all that was going on (as mentioned above!!) I forgot to take a picture of 

oreos- what you are supposed to start out with! So, pretend you see a bowl full of oreos and

to start, you are going to take apart each one and scrape the filling into another bowl. 

After you scrape out the filling, put the chocolate cookies into a large ziploc bag.  When you have

 them all scraped off, you are going to crush them into fine crumbs with a rolling pin.

Now back to the filling- add 1 pkg. of cream cheese to it and mix it until it's smooth and creamy.

Now add those crushed cookie crumbs and mix it all up!

Mmmmm.  This looks delish!

Now you are going to roll it into 1 inch balls and stick it into the frig or freezer to chill.

Melt 1 pkg. of almond bark and after they are chilled, dip them into the chocolate to coat them.

Sorry, this isn't the best picture but I think you get the idea!!

Oreo Balls

1 pkg. oreos

1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese

1 pkg. almond bark

Twist oreos and take apart.

Scrape filling from cookies and put into large bowl.

Add cream cheese to bowl and cream together.

Put remainder of cookies into a ziploc bag and seal.  Use a rolling pin to finely crush.

Add finely crushed cookies to the creamed mixture and stir.

Roll into 1 inch balls and chill.

Melt almond bark according to package directions.

Dip cookie balls into almond bark and place on a wax paper covered cookie sheet.

Let set and enjoy!!