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When I want to eat a cookie I bake a cookie. Being a woman who has a bit of a sweet tooth directly after meals (including breakfast) ultimately this means I bake a lot of cookies. Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are my fav!

This is my all-time go-to cookie. I can practically whip up a batch in less than 5 minutes. Well, I've never timed myself but I know I'm quick. I don't even need the recipe! And, for this love of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies I have Mom Foster to thank!

In college I was fortunate to be a suitemate of the one and only Ashley. Mom Foster, Ash's mom, would FedEx her specialty cookies to Ashley often. Lucky Ashley and lucky suitemates! I fell in love with these cookies at first bite. I knew we'd be connected forever.

Throughout college Mom Foster would make and FedEx these cookies. While Ashley and I moved into separate dorms and apartments throughout our college years, Mom Foster would still send the cookies and the best part, she'd put a little ziplock bag of cookies with my name on it. She knew how much I loved them and she was more than loving to always put some aside for me. Yup, I'm the luckiest.

Just after college I took a gigantic roadtrip across the country and one very important stop along our trip, the Foster's in Maryland. While they housed Tasha and I for a week while we toured D.C., my priority of this visit - make cookies with Mom Foster!

And dreams do come true. While there was so much to see in lovely D.C., I came away from this trip with my favorite cookies and the tool to have them as my own for the rest of my life: the recipe. I learned from the best when I learned from Mom Foster and she was so generous to me for sharing her recipe. She even gave me all the tips to chocolate chip oatmeal cookie perfection - a stick of butter and a stick of margarine, exactly what the top of the cookie must look like when taken out of the oven, and leaving the cookies on the pan for 4 minutes to cool, to name a few.

Now I can enjoy them forever - and forever I will! I do my best to pay it forward. Tomorrow I'm taking these cookies into the office where my co-workers have become very familiar and equally as grateful.

Thanks Ashley and thanks Mom Foster - for the cookies are one direct representation of your love! I remember this everytime I bake and enjoy.  

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