Then Ms. Miller Nussbaum asked the cookie company Eleni's to make cookies in the shape of bathing suits.

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Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.

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After speaking to parents, spouses, and children of service members in the East Room, she invited kids down to the State Dining Room to decorate cookies and make Christmas tree ornaments.

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Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft, chewy cookies like you make.

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It's enough to make you want to skip the milk and cookies and don rubber gloves and protective clothing on Christmas Eve.

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Dieters, on the contrary, feel that the large slice has blown their diet (and, even better, that this was not their fault), so they may as well make the most of it, and dig into the cookies.

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If you want Santa to be skinny, Cox said, make it happen: Tell your kids Santa is tired of eating cookies, and leave an apple out instead.

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