A blog in letters. Two friends dish on family, careers, and the food that gets them through.
No one needs a new basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. I mean, everyone has their favorite – their tried and true. This website even has a recipe I have tagged as my all-time favorite chocolate chip cookie (though, granted, I still can't makes them as well as my mama does). So, who am I to add to the mix? And with so many recipes out there, there simply cannot be one that trumps them all.
Right?
Right?
Well…
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What is it about coming home? I mean, to your parents' house? I have a place of my own, a husband, kids, career – and yet, there is something about driving up to my childhood home that makes me let out a big breath and relax. I’d like to say it’s the smell of the surrounding apple and cherry orchards that are heavy with ripening fruit. Or that it’s the anticipation of the summer sunset that is always red and orange and stunning. Or even that it’s all the fond memories I have: you know, the ones of torturing my little brother or sneaking out with high school friends.
But the truth is, coming “home” is so great because my mom is there. And, as you can attest, nobody – but nobody - pampers like a mom.
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