Crazy May and Cookies

Wow! Life is busy! I've decided that May is officially the month when teachers decide to cram and smoosh everything they possibly can into just a few weeks of school. Choir concerts, wax museums, testing, projects, ballroom competitions and performances, dance festivals, field days, reports... you get the idea. THEN on top of that are the sports: tournaments, rescheduled games, REGULAR games, tryouts for competition soccer... THEN on top of that, the weather. Oh, don't even get me started on the weather! My little business has gotten more busy, and while I'm excited about that, and it's tons of fun, it's just made May a tiny bit crazier than it already was. Needless to say, although I've enjoyed the majority of this hectic May (and really I have, other than the February weather that only goes away for about one day each week), I've fallen behind on a few things! I was going through pictures and came across a folder from a day when apparently I was in the mood to do a little "food-tography." It was also apparently done during a time less busy... a time when I actually HAD time to make cookies. These pictures also made me hungry. Oh, how I'm craving one of these homemade chocolate chip cookies (or maybe 5 or 6). And these are THE BEST! I've been making these since I was a kid, only needing help from my mom at the end, when the batter was so thick that it was hard to mix by hand. My Favorites! Heck, I'll even add the recipe at the end. Then I'm going to add chocolate chips to my grocery list for tomorrow! Oh, and I forgot to mention... this recipe makes TONS OF COOKIES! I usually freeze half of them to save, because they won't all fit in my cookie jar! YUMMMMM!

Grandma's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups shortening
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking soda
2 Tbsp HOT water
2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups quick oats
1 package chocolate chips (2 cups)

Cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs and mix. Add flour and salt and mix. Dissolve soda in water and add the mixture with vanilla. Stir in quick oats and chocolate chips. Spoon onto cookie sheet (I use a cookie scoop). Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.