Hi. How are you? Here are some cookies

Remember when a cookie was just a cookie? They were sweet and innocent and made with love by women (and men) in aprons. Little portable and edible hugs.
Then everything without a wrapper on it became suspect (conspiracy theory unfolding in my mind as I write this).

Now, everyone is making cookies and putting crazy things in them like lavender and coconut milk or even cayenne pepper and bacon. They go in to pretty little boxes and cost more than a haircut. They are shipped to you from San Francisco and have colors more splendid than the sunsets of Babylon.
But do they still hug you!?
I am actually asking you this question.....hmmmmmmm.

While you mull it over,  here are a couple photos of my little friends and a recipe tossed in for good measure. For the record: I am wearing an apron.

RECIPE-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Ooey Gooey Cookies:
1c of Flour
3c of Old Fashioned Oats
1c of light brown sugar
1c of sugar sugar
10 oz of semi-sweet chips 
1/2 teaspoon baking SODA
2 tablespoons of vanilla extract
2 sticks of butter at room temp- regular salted is perfect
3 eggs

Oven warming at 350 degrees
Cream butter and sugars (whip until its just one smooth light brown blob of heaven)
Add vanilla
Add eggs and mix until everything is combined
Mix flour, oats, salt and baking powder (*make sure you crush out any lumps in baking powder BEFORE you put it into the mix...chunks of BKP stuck in a cookie is eeeeeew gross)
Add all this to the sugar, butter and egg mix and toss in those chips.
Put the cookie dough into the fridge for 30 minutes to let the butter harden back up.
Using a large tablespoon, place balls of dough on parchment covered cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8-10 until the middle of the cookie is light brown and the edges are dark brown and bubbling with sugary love. YAY!