People often ask me about what it’s like having a big family. I never quite know what to say. It’s my life, so to me there is nothing all that different or interesting about it. I can pick out a few positives and a few negatives about having six kids if they insist, but again, what am I supposed to say?
My most common response is that I love watching my older kids with my little kids. I love watching them love on the little ones. I love watching them learn to care for them. I love watching them learn to deal with their misbehavior. I love watching that teenage “edge” soften away when they are with them.
I love that my kids are so thrilled when a sibling learns to sit-up, walk and talk. I think they get more excited about these milestones than I do 🙂 Luke is still convinced that it was his training that got Micah to finally sit up on her own!
So what is a negative about such a big family? Of course, we go through A LOT of food 🙂 I could honestly use two refrigerators, two stoves and two ovens. Maybe then I could make batches of food that lasted longer than a day.
You think I’m kidding, but take these 4 dozen cookies I made this afternoon. I highly doubt there will be a single one left by lunch tomorrow. But with cookies that have chocolate chips and grated milk chocolate, can you blame my family for devouring them? I doubt this is truly a Mrs Field’s recipe. It is one I picked up years ago when I was a student at BYU (Go Cougars!) and has been a faithful recipe for me over the years.
I had kind of forgotten about it until my 15 year old daughter pulled it out a few weeks ago and made a batch. Thanks Tori 🙂 I guess that is another positive about having a big family. There’s always someone to lend you a helping hand, but usually with a bit of protest to go along with it!
Mrs Field’s makes the best cookies and this is her recipe for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies that are perfectly chewy!
Yield:4 1/2 dozen cookies 1x
Ingredients
1 C butter, room temperature
1 C brown sugar
1 C white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 C flour
2 1/2 C oats
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
4 ounce milk chocolate bar, grated
2 C semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Cream butter and sugars together in the bowl of your mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add eggs, one at a time allowing the first to mix in before adding the second. Add the vanilla, salt, baking soda and powder. Mix well and then add the flour and oats. After the dough comes together, add the two types of chocolate and mix until it is dispersed evenly. I usually have to mix it by hand a bit after I take the bowl off the mixer. Refrigerate for one hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or a silpat liner. Using a 1 1/2″ scoop, place dough on lined cookie sheets and bake for 9-10 minutes until the outside of cookie is set and the top is just beginning to brown. Allow cookie to cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet, then remove to a cooling rack.
Author:Carole Jones
Nutrition
Serving Size:2 cookies
Calories:273
Sugar:25g
Sodium:105mg
Fat:14g
Saturated Fat:8g
Unsaturated Fat:2g
Trans Fat:0g
Carbohydrates:37g
Fiber:3g
Protein:2g
Cholesterol:32mg
Carole Jones
Carole Jones is an Arizona-based cookbook author & food blogger. She's authored The 30 Minute Cooking From Frozen Cookbook and the self-published Take 5: Chicken e-cookbook. For the past 15 years, Carole has shared her culinary adventures cooking and baking for her six brutally honest children here on My Kitchen Escapades. Hot, crusty bread is Carole's love language, but her two adorable grandchildren are a close second. Yes, second. Don't judge.
4 comments
Stephanie
16 years ago
Did I see a “Go Cougars” in your blog? What happened to the “Tigers”, oh I am so old, I can’t remember that Ivy League school you were going to attend but I remember the tshirt vividly. Green with a big tiger/bengal something on it. The good ol days for sure. Love you still!
Cookie Dough Truffles - My Kitchen Escapades
11 years ago
[…] after church, my middle daughter asked if she could make some Mrs Fields Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Um….the answer to that question is always […]
Donna Arnette
6 years ago
What kind iod oatmeal. Quick cook or not.
Carole
6 years ago
I use rolled oats but quick oats will work just fine as well! Thanks Donna
Air Fryer S'mores are the perfect dessert idea when the weather or time isn't cooperating for building a fire. Making a s'more in the air fryer creates a perfectly toasted marshmallow and melts the milk...
No-Bake Granola Bars are always a big hit with my kids as an after-school snack or in their school lunchbox! These homemade granola bars are so much better than the ones in the box and they are much...
Easy Halloween Brownies that are ready for your next party! This recipe is made with ingredients already in your pantry so you can start decorating right away with your kids, or alone if you want them...
Sometimes, you just need a chocolate chip cookie but you don't want a whole batch of cookies sitting around tempting you for days on end. So, here to save the day is the single serve chocolate chip cookie....well,...
If you know, you know!! Swig is a soda shop known for their amazing mixed soft drinks, as well as their cookies, and for me, there is nothing better than their pink frosting sugar cookies! I've tried...
Need a sweet treat but don't want a ton of cookies hanging around your house tempting you to eat the entire batch? This single serve no bake cookie recipe makes one perfect dessert in less than two...
4 comments
Did I see a “Go Cougars” in your blog? What happened to the “Tigers”, oh I am so old, I can’t remember that Ivy League school you were going to attend but I remember the tshirt vividly. Green with a big tiger/bengal something on it. The good ol days for sure. Love you still!
[…] after church, my middle daughter asked if she could make some Mrs Fields Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Um….the answer to that question is always […]
What kind iod oatmeal. Quick cook or not.
I use rolled oats but quick oats will work just fine as well! Thanks Donna