Cookie Memories

During my visit to my grandparents last week, I went through my grandmother's recipe books. I was so excited to finally find my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe in there. My Nannie and I must have baked them 100 times or more! Last night, I finally had a chance to bake a batch and they are still just as yummy! Of course they are not exactly like Nannie's but they are pretty close.

I find it amazing that a cookie could remind me so much of being a kid. I would grab a cookie and eat it on the swing on the lawn or go curl up with a book on the couch. These cookies will always take me back to Nannie and Grampie's. The place where I learned to make cookies and polish the wood stove in my good clothes!


Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
                                                                    Charles W. Shedd

They say genes skip generations.
Maybe that's why grandparents 
find their grandchildren so likeable.
                                                                      Joan McIntosh




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