Ms. Bear on Lessons Learned Through Oatmeal Cookies

Editor’s Note: She’s baaaaack!!! By popular demand, actually! Over the years, my mom has gained a fan following of her own, so I asked her to guest post today about one of her recent escapades: Lessons learned through oatmeal cookies!! It’s a very delicious story, but I’ll let her tell it…

A summer day is as good a day as any to learn a lesson, isn’t it? Last Sunday was the day before I got out of school for the year, so I was feeling really great. Melissa suggested we make some oatmeal raisin cookies after I had bought one at the bakery and was raving about how soft and good it was. I was also complaining about paying 60 cents for one small cookie, so I figured this way I could have lots of cookies that wouldn’t cost anywhere near 60 cents a piece — I’m not cheap, really, just frugal! lol.

So, we set off to work. Now, I had looked up recipes on the Internet and specifically found one that said “soft” oatmeal cookies, as all my previous forays into the realm of oatmeal cookies had veered into the ever-crispy category, and I am not a fan of any crispy cookies! I followed that recipe to a “T” and the smell of cinnamon wafted through the house. I baked them for the least amount of time and even cooled them on my fancy cooling racks from Williams-Sonoma, a lovely gift from my niece Mona (I usually use aluminum foil..haha). Well, needless to say, they were not “soft” like the bakery cookies were.

But, and here’s the lesson, they were still good! We had one every night this week and we all commented how good they were. So, I figure I learned a lesson here…sometimes you’ve got to be willing to accept something the way it is and you just might realize that, while it’s not what you expected, it is just as good in its own way.

Then, this past Saturday, on what would have been my 39th wedding anniversary, I was able to extrapolate this lesson to my life as it is now. It’s certainly not what I expected my life to be like today, but you know what? My life is still good, in its new way. I know Brian would be proud and happy to hear me say that. No tears shed on my anniversary, thanks to those small (and crispy!) oatmeal cookies!!

So, today, find something in your life that you may wish to change, accept it as it is, and see what happens. You may be surprised!