Wanted: Interesting cookie facts

With the number of cookies that are baked and consumed each year (see Fact #2 below) there has to be tons of interesting information/history/facts out there.  I’m looking for those things.  If you have any interesting tidbit about cookies, please let me know.  If we wind up putting it on our website, My Kids’ Cookies will send you a thank you cookie.  All you cookie lovers, start your search engines!

Our current Cookie Facts:

1) Massachusetts named the chocolate chip cookie the official state cookie on July 9, 1997.

2) An estimated 7 billion chocolate chip cookies are eaten in the United States each year.

3) Half the cookies baked in American homes each year are chocolate chip.

4) Chocolate chip cookies are the favored cookies of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster.

Email your fact to Barbara@MyKidsCookies.com. 

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Young @ Heart

Yesterday, Netflix delivered a documentary called ‘Young@ Heart‘ about a Massachusetts based chorus made up of seniors (the average age is 80).

The zest for life, the dedication to the group and continuing to look at life as an adventure to be explored, despite the infirmities brought on by age, was inspiring.

During the course of the film, several members of the group are followed by the camera in average (and not so average) tasks.  We see one member taking a shower (in bathing trunks), another member undergoing a blood transfusion, a third hospitalized after cardiac arrest.  And we see, over the course of several weeks, the group as they take on new songs, far from their comfort zone of the songs they grew up with (Sinatra and big band) and learn classics like James Brown’s “I Feel Good” and even the more modern Coldplay.

What resonated most with me, though, was that they just seem to never want to give up.  It’s all about how you look at life – half full or half empty.  These folks are, biologically speaking, well into the half empty side of life.  But the glass was brimming for them despite what they can’t control – age, illness, death.

That’s how it is for just about everyone in the world.  There is much you can’t control, but you can absolutely control how you look at things and what your outlook on life is.  As I watched Young@Heart, I reminded myself to smile.

As a very famous man (Abraham Lincoln) once said…

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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