I spy joy in the kitchen

It’s a well-known fact: chocolate chip cookies are one of the very best things in life.  And homemade chocolate chip cookies are a little chunk of heaven.  The cookies I make, when I make them, are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.  They are divine.  Almost as good as the warm, chewy, melty goodness that they are just out of the oven is the fresh-mixed dough; which is so thick and heavy that it nearly burns out the motor on the mixer.  As I was making my extra special cookies from scratch tonight, my son pleaded with me to let him lick the spoons, the bowl, anything the dough came in contact with.  As he devoured every speck he could reach with his tongue I spied joy — chocolate covered joy — in the kitchen.