Stories From the Cookie Jar

Erica helped Christina and Simon make cookies today to give to their piano teachers for Christmas gifts. They made chocolate chip cookies as well as chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. They are delicious! I'm glad they all could not fit into the gift tins!

There were enough cookies to fill up the old cookie jar and more! The cookie jar we are using is an old ceramic one. The colors may have faded a bit over the years and the lid has a couple of chips missing. There are some thin cracks through the glaze. It sort of resembles one of those jars that many folks pass up at yard sales or the Good Will store, even though it may be marked ridiculously cheap. It is a very old one, going waaaay back into my childhood. I'm not sure when my mom got it, but I can remember it as far back as I have memories. It may have had different homes around the kitchen as I was growing up, but I remember mostly it's prominent place setting on our walnut hutch.

If that old cookie jar could talk, it would have some stories to tell! It would tell about many dozens of homemade cookies that it's lid gingerly protected; sugar cookies, snicker-doodles, peanut-butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and a menagerie of others over the years, all lovingly created by a mother for her adoring boys.

It may have something to say about those two little boys, as well. Tales of espionage and suspense! The cookie jar knew of their cloak-and-dagger exploits secretly into the kitchen, when all was dark. It understood how cautious they were,lifting it's lid to make the least possible noise. And I think it enjoyed sounding the alarm with the loud clanking noise when the lid was replaced!

I don't remember how long the old cookie jar has been in my home, but I'm thankful Mom gave it to us. It might now tell about the un-selfishness of four other children, who would let a cookie stay in the jar and get stale just because they each wanted to leave the last precious cookie for someone else! It would also tell about many different cooks who have baked cookies for it to hold. It would tell of
Erica, the main cookie maker in the family, and also of Christina who has lately proved her mettle in the cookie world as well! And the jar may tell you that we always love Lisa's cookies, but it would remind you that she admits that she isn't much of a cookie person.

I like this old cookie jar. It and me, we have a good understanding! I take care of it, and it takes care of me! And now I have immortalized my friend in writing and with a picture here on the blog, so it should be better to me than ever before!