These Cookies Have True Grit

Brace yourself. I'm about to share with you the best recipe a sugar-craving mother can have. It's simple, modifiable, healthy (oatmeal=healthy in my books!), and has kept me happily fueled over the course of my infant-rearing days thus far.

Seriously. It's THAT good.

Behold! The Cowboy Cookie. 

Ingredients:
3 c large flake oatmeal
2 c flour
1 c brown sugar
1 c white sugar
*1/2 c pecans
*1/2 c coconut
*1/2 c cranberries
*1 c white chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 eggs
1 c butter

* These dry ingredients can be substituted/omitted. I don't like nuts in my cookies, so I don't add them. You can use chocolate or caramel chips instead of white chocolate chips, raisins instead of cranberries, or none at all! I also LOVE coconut so I add a whole cup.

Instructions:
Some people will tell you to mix the dry ingredients first, then cream the butter and sugar together, yadda, yadda, yadda. I, on the other hand, dump everything into a bowl in no particular order and mush it together with my hands. Use your hands. The squishyness feels oh so nice. If you like BIG cookies like moi, make baseball-sized dough balls, squish them down with the palm of your hand, and bake them at 375 until they're done.

Splendid. That's some good eatin' right there!