Sneaking Sprinkles

Yesterday while I was busily working away in a different room I realized the girls were being suspiciously content out of sight...
I found them sitting on the kitchen counter eating sprinkles straight from the bottle.
I'm not always what I'd consider a 'good mom', I'm probably a 'lazy mom' if I'm honest. If I can make my children happy with little effort; I do, if I can make few rules and get around constant spankings for disobeying them; I do. So when I found them sneaking sprinkles I calmed my inner monster-mommy and instead of wailing "What on earth do you think you're doing?! You aren't allowed to eat the sprinkles." I said "Girls, you can't just eat the sprinkles, we have to make cookies with them, do you want to make cookies?" and instead of putting the sprinkles in the cabinet, spanking, and spanking them throughout the days to come until they gave up on getting the sprinkles (or more likely I gave up on saving them and they were eaten), I grabbed a stick of butter, a recipe, and set the girls up next to the kitchen-aid to help me make cookies, and use those sprinkles we did.
No more mommy-daughter battles over sprinkles I've had since two Christmas's past.
A batch of sugar cookies for all to enjoy.
Everyone wins.

So maybe I am a bad mom for catering to my children's sweet tooth, maybe I should have punished and battled it out but hey, I have a sweet tooth, too and I'd rather eat cookies together than pull my hair out saving a $2 two year old bottle of sprinkles.

When I said use the sprinkles up, I meat it ;)

This is the recipe I sort of followed. I only wanted a small batch so I made 1/3 of this, with a few extra tweaks because 4 eggs don't split into thirds very well ;)