December Days - 12.8.09

For breakfast this morning I warmed up some muffins for the kids. Now, initially that statement doesn't really mean much until you dig a little deeper into our definition of what a "muffin" is. About a year ago, one of my co-workers introduced our family to a recipe of Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies. At first description, I thought the combination of pumpkin and chocolate sounded a little strange, but these are not your normal cookies. They are spongy and more cake-like than typical cookies causing my kids to label them "muffins" instead of cookies. When we make these cookies, I mean muffins, more of them are consumed before 10am in our house than any other time of day - that alone should constitute a "muffin" distinction!

A couple months ago, Caleb wasn't feeling very well at school and had to go to the nurses office. The school nurse asked him what he had for breakfast. Caleb said he panicked at first not sure how to explain to the nurse that he had eaten cookies for breakfast, but he relaxed when he realized they weren't cookies.....they're muffins! So in order to support his claim and justify our occasional breakfast choice, no one in our house is allowed to call them anything other than Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. If you can't believe we'd feed our kids these muffins for breakfast, well, you've clearly never had them!

Shout out to the O'Connors for sharing the recipe!