Cookies bring laughter

As my children and I are in the kitchen making our family "Chocolate No-Bake Cookies", My mind is flooded with memories of my sisters and my mother cooking "Chocolate No-Bake Cookies" when I was little. We had a lot of fun cooking together. My mother would stand at the stove with one foot propped up on the stool as she stirred the cookie mixture until it boiled for one minute. It took along time so we all took turns. We would want to stop stirring but mom would inform us that the cookies that we loved would not turn out right if they weren't stirred constantly. When mom took the pan off the burner we frantically put the last of the ingredients in before the whole batch became one big cookie. We then plopped spoonfuls of the cookie mixture onto waxed paper and we waited for the mixture to harden. My sisters and I would sit under the kitchen table and sneak bites of cookies from the waxed paper. My mother would be busy cleaning up the kitchen and pretend to not see us. We would giggle and giggle as we thought we were so sneaky. I now share those moments with my children as we cook the "Chocolate No-Bake Cookies" together, taking turns stirring the mixture on the stove. We also like to take turns reading McMannus books and laughing. We also don't wait for the cookies to harden before we enjoy a warm cookie with a cold glass of milk together. Then we share in the kitchen clean up. Year after year we laugh and cook together building memories and traditions that will be passed down from one generation to the next.