At Considerable Cost

 I've been busy baking pies this week, so the kids wanted to bake, too.   They chose chocolate chip cookies.   A little like Larry, Curly, and Moe at times, but FUN!   The cookies were delicious.   We pack brown sugar. "I want to break the egg!   I want to break the egg!" Everyone has a turn at stirring. To make it easy for them to space cookies on the pan, I just put a dab of dough on each place where a cookie needs to be placed.   Our handy dandy Pampered Chef cookie scoop makes the job much easier! Rewarded for his efforts.   I bought a pack of 500 hot dog paper trays from Sam's.   They're great for snacks and treats--much cheaper than paper plates! They came out so well!   Won't be long before they'll make these independently like Emmeline bakes muffins!

Mama was known in our small town for her oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe.   When the other kids at school sold Krispy Kreme donuts for fundraisers, I sold her cookies and she donated the ingredients so the organization could keep all of the profits.   When I was in high school, I would bring a huge shopping bag filled with gift bags of cookies for friends and teachers.   The second year I did that, I was met at the bus by people looking for their cookies.   My seventh grade English teacher offered me $25 for the recipe.  Several friends from high school messaged me about Mama's cookies when they first found me on Facebook. One day, in eighth grade PE class, I had some left-over cookies in a bag and I gave them to my PE teacher.   She told me I didn't have to bother dressing out that day.   Now, the women in my family loathe PE.   I love watching sports and supporting athletes, but I despise PE.  ...