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How about if they were made with love?
Ava is persecuting me over a Christmas cookie issue and we need your opinion.
Here’s what’s going on. The Christmas season has crept up on us like a runaway snowplow. We have no idea how it’s 
already the middle of December, but it’s true. There’s one weekend left. ONE! until the holiday. This is a serious problem. There’s still so much to do; there’s no time left for 6 hours of baking. Not if you want the gift lists complete and the presents wrapped. You all know that I hardly sleep but it sometimes still happens. If we’re going to shoehorn baking into that already tight schedule she can kiss that goodbye. Grandma is too busy to do it either so that would leave Amylynn to do it all herself.
Here’s where the trouble started. I hoped that if I didn’t make all the cookies no one would notice. Clearly I’m delusional. I took the reaction of my family with a pouty lip and a quart of resentment.
In an effort to make everyone just shut up about it and buy some time, I made Rice Krispies Treats.
“Rice Krispies Treats?” Ava shrieked at me when I told her. “Those don’t qualify as cookies!”
“Sure they do,” I shouted back. All of this happened over the Keurig at work. It was way, way too early to be challenging me over what fits the definition of a cookie.
She put her hand on her hip and looked down at me. “No one thinks Rice Krispies Treats are a cookie. No one.”
I think at that point I told her to shut up and stormed back to my office. She’s told everyone we work with that I don’t even know what a cookie is and I’m trying to pass Rice Krispies Treats to my family. I’m not exactly sure what she’s implying here. That I don’t know desserts? That I’m a Scrooge? That I don’t love my family? That I’m lazy?
Ava here – Amy is just trying to work the room. Rice Krispie Treats are not cookies. They are especially not Christmas cookies. Never have been, never will be. Not gonna happen. If she really wanted to pull it off she should have posted this picture instead. 
We put the onus on you, Dear Reader. What do you think?
Rice crispy. If you made it in a baking pan and cut it up, I say it can pass as a cookie. You eat with your hands like a cookie so it is definitely a cookie. Maybe you should have made them round to at least pass it off as a cookie? Add ted and green M&Ms?
I should have made that for my work potluck today instead of my ham and turkey hyeroller wraps.
Thank you for your support!
I think this is simply a matter of proper classification. Rice crispy treats are not cookies, but they are a holiday treat, so they count.
You only make them at Christmas so they totally count!!
You only make them at Christmas????? What are you talking about? No one makes them at Christmas. Oh, except for you when you’re trying to avoid making Christmas cookies.