Grampa Talkin' Grandkids & Cookies

While my origins are in the high tech sector, blogging is a new phenomenon that my son’s tell me is nothing more than a bulletin board for thoughts and opinions – about absolutely anything. A Google search delivered the following definitions:

Matisse Enzer's Glossary of Internet Terms puts it this way:
Blog - (weB LOG) A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.

The University of Lethbridge's Faculty of Education has a very brief definition.Blog - A web log: an on-line diary or frequently updated personal web page.

I asked my son’s if it would be okay if I used this blogging venue to talk about my five grandchildren and how beautiful, brilliant and awesome each of them are, and how each of them “love grandpa the most”. (I do jest on the “love grandpa the most” part of this virginal blogging soliloquy but I am quite certain that I love each of them “the most”. (grandpa’s logic!!)

Anyway, two of my three son’s, who are co-owners and actively coool operators of Wicked Good Cookies, told me that there was a time and place for my obnoxious grandfatherly behavior and that the Wicked website and associated blog may not be an appropriate pulpit for me to pompously preach about my grandchildren and their infinite “awesome-ness”. The wicked blog, they passionately professed, is for people to talk about their experiences with our Wicked Good photo cookies, or to tell relevantly related stories about our cookie creativity.

Their respective opinions were properly pondered and duly noted and I am “sort of” going to “oblige and conform” to their blog intentions. I guess it would be blog-ably relevant if I mentioned that Sophia, my first grandchild, loves Wicked Good photo cookies and that her smile blazed a new trail to my heart when her artwork was put on a cookie that was used to invite her cousins and friends to her 4th birthday celebration. (see picture). None of the birthday cookie invitations made it to the party but their smiles were ear-to-ear when new photo cookies were presented to each with their names sweetly emblazoned on the birthday cookie treat.

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I wonder if it would be acceptable if I wove a word or two about my second grandchild, Andrew. He’s just turned two and he is ALL boy. Andrew loves his koookies, and his visits to the Wicked Good cookie kingdom always results in a customized cookie of his choice. I stand back and smirk as Andrew takes his dad’s hand and walks him to Wicked Good’s cartoon character library and selects his next cookie. He then weaves his way to our patented photo cookie system and patiently waits for his dad to do his magic. Five minutes later, my smile goes coastal as Andrew carefully eats the cookie “around” the photo leaving a ragged edge to the remnants of what used to be Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.

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While Emma’s parents are nutcakes on nutrition and do their very best to limit grampa’s obnoxious desire to give his third grandchild “good stuff”, they do allow Emma to eat a cookie or two. And, when they do, they do smile, and they smile with unmitigated glee as Emma excitedly and repeatedly looks at the cookie with her image perfectly placed next to Elmo on her customized Wicked Good cookie. Unlike Andrew, Emma has little regard for the cartoon character and typically devours her cookie with enthusiastic gusto.

Stella and Marin, my two youngest grandchildren, are far too young to indulge or comprehend the creative magnitude of perfectly placing images on cookies. Stella is 7 months old, and Marin 6 weeks younger and their grandfather sure does get excited when he see’s their pictures on Wicked Good cookies. Grandpa’s biggest dilemma is whether to eat the cookies or save and freeze to extend my viewing pleasure.

Perhaps, I should end my maiden voyage in the realm of the blog. I shall return. Blogging can be fun stuff – just like Wicked Good’s photo cookies !