Cookies!

I like to cook and bake and in my past life ( the one where I had to be everything to everyone and the most perfect at all things), made breakfast, lunch, dinner and baked all the time, almost everyday... however that person has vanished and is trying to come back. Anyways slowly I have tried to get back into that routine- so today I was suffering from complete boredom, kids were at school and Hayden is sick so he was napping. I had cleaned the toilets for the day and did the laundry I needed to, I even worked on my "creations" for a while, no one was on facebook and I had no emails... so I decided to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch! BAD IDEA- the package is much better! every time I do this I follow the recipe to a "T" and they always turn out flat and thin- WHY???? Sorry boys, there will be dinner, spaghetti and homemade meatballs, but the dessert, well is trash!