I could be the Cookie monster.

I'm sitting here eating a snickerdoodle, one of my favorites. Its not the best I've ever had, but I don't come by them very often and I have to utilize every chance I get.

There is also a dessert reception going on at this very moment for a choir concert featuring choirs ranging from the 4th grade to the 12th grade. One reason I love dessert receptions is that everyone brings cookies. Can I just tell you that I love cookies? I always have, and I think chances are, I always will. They are just so stinking delicious. How can you not resist the chewy or crunchy amazingness wrapped up in 7 heavenly bites? I had to stop buying cookies from the store because I will eat them...all of them. Adam doesn't usually help. I could finish off the package in about 3 fell swoops, leaving a trail of crumbs the whole way.

Cookies have gotten a lot harder to enjoy since we made the conscious decision to evaluate our buying power. Are we unknowingly funding slavery by our purchases? Most often, when we buy chocolate, we are (granted, its in a small way, but everything helps.) A slave that was rescued from one of the cocoa farms in the Cote d'Ivoire said in a BBC interview that eating chocolate that came from Cote d'Ivoire was like eating his flesh. It kind of stuck with me. Long story short, we decided that we could not knowingly buy or eat chocolate that was not Fair Trade Certified. (There was a big push from the US Government to eliminate slavery from this process in 2001, and they say they are working on it. Statistics show that not much has changed.)

Most of the good cookies have chocolate in them! Oreos, Chocolate chip cookies, M&M cookies, brownies, mud pie cookies, the list could flow forever. Yikes...guess my new favorite cookie is the snickerdoodle. I was so happy when I saw it at the reception tonight. My heart rejoiced with all the anticipation of savoring every last morsel and nugget of the cinnamon goodness.

Just popped the last crumb in my mouth, and it was magnificnent. Thank you, Jesus!