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<\/a><\/div>\nONE, I don’t make cookies and TWO, guess you have to be a chef or a baker and I am no baker anymore.\u00a0 It is amazing what more time can do for a mom’s self esteem!\u00a0 With HAVING to make our bread every week I couldn’t help but retain that skill, but with Garnet diagnosed with hypoglycemia I let my baking skills mostly slide.\u00a0 Especially where cookies where concerned as I always found them such a struggle, so time consuming and so often a failure of mine.<\/p>\n
With Garnet’s shoulders both damaged due to two different accidents of late I have been home bound while I let him use our only vehicle more often.\u00a0 Before his shoulder issues he was commuting by bike YEAR ROUND.\u00a0 This means I am feeling more domestic as I have no choice but to put off all the run around stuff I have been expected to do since moving to the city, and I am lov’n it!<\/p>\n
With more time on my hands I decided we needed cookies.\u00a0 My little man, who is three now, and I have the mornings alone together and we needed the together project as well as the treats that result from cookie making.\u00a0 It all became necessary after yesterdays trips to two grocery stores.\u00a0 He loves grocery trips, even asking when we don’t need to if I will take him anyway.\u00a0 He loves grocery trips because I figured out what other mom’s apparently knew for years… the baker will let you child have a free cookie!\u00a0 So he got a gigantic ginger snap from Superstore and a fat chocolate chip from Safeway.\u00a0 I got a happy little man and a kick out of his deep deep pleasure in cookie eating.\u00a0 I recalled how much I adored them as a child, pretty much all of us did right?!\u00a0 I remembered how AMAZING my mothers home made chocolate chip cookies where… we needed home made cookies around here again!\u00a0 And that!\u00a0 That would be up to ME!!<\/p>\n
Once home I also remembered how badly every single batch of my mom’s famous cookies turned out when I made them… doubt set in… uncertainty… apprehension… but my craving and my boys chocolate smeared smile pushed me through the haze of horrible memory flash backs and I GOT OUT MY BOWL TODAY!\u00a0 Yes the cookie batter mixing bowl, and the spatula, and the ingredients!\u00a0 I then called my mom for help and let her walk me through my rough spots over the phone <\/p>\n
When I poured in the chocolate chips my boy cheered ‘You put in chocolate!\u00a0 You are so good mommy’!\u00a0 When I let him mix he exclaimed, ‘We do dis together Mama, US make cookies.\u00a0 Iz you and me’!\u00a0 And my heart glowed.<\/p>\n