How to bribe students and get a Mexican marriage license

How could you possibly bribe your students to come to your coffee hour and gain permission to get married in Mexico all in one fell swoop? Bake oatmeal chocolate cookies, of course!

After a little baking experiment with Alexis this weekend, which involved sticking our heads in the oven for far longer than either of us was comfortable with (long story, but thanks to Skype and our dear friend Nicole we learned how to manually light an oven), I decided to whip up a batch of these delicious oatmeal chocolate chip (NOT raisin) cookies and handed them out at the Faculty. That went pretty much as planned. The response I was expecting was "mmm, these are yummy", which I did get, but to my surprise the most common response was, "now you can get married!"

I'm accomplishing major feats left and right in this country.
Watch out, I'm officially a housewife-to-be! Just wait until they get a hold of my chicken parmigiana, they may just give me permission to be polygamous.

Hopefully the next time I cook it'll be something slightly more Mexican. I made a pact with my friend Mario that if I teach him to cook something American/Italian, he'll give me lesson in Mexican cuisine. We'll see how I do!