By: Deanna Linder I don’t know what it is but something about cookies just make me feel good. A long while back, Danya wrote in a post that she wanted to be the kind of mother that is remembered for always having homemade cookies in the cookie jar at home. I wasn’t yet a mother then, but I knew I wanted to be that kind of mother as well. When I got down to deciding which cookies I would want to share with our readers I gave myself a challenge: one cookie which I love and make all the time (snickerdoodle), one cookie which I’ve never made but looks delicious (nutella cookies), one cookie that I love but looks too hard to make (elephant ears/palmiers). I came to the shoot with a ton of cookies. We shot them, ate some and I was left with so many that I didn’t know what to do with them, so I started handing them out to friends (yes, this is one of perks of being a friend of mine). A few days later, a friend and I went with our sons to Gymboree. When she dropped us off at home,... 
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