Dinner conversation the other night:
James: "Dad, are you going to be a carpenter?" (Implied: "When you grow up and decide what to be")
Kirk: "No."
Laurel: "Dad doesn't work at building things for other people, but he does build things for us."
James: "Dad, I'd like you to be Santa at Walmart then."

Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup softened butter
1/4 cup molasses
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

1 cup rolled oats
2 cups quick rolled oats
1 cup raisins
1 and 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
3/4 cup flaked raw unsweetened coconut

Mix the butter and sugars until smooth.
Add eggs and vanilla. Mix.
Sift flour, soda, and salt together in another bowl and add to butter mixture. Mix.
Add oats, raisins, walnuts, and coconut and mix.

Drop onto greased cookie sheets and bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until set and golden brown.

Laurel's notes:
I replaced about 1/4 cup of the whole wheat flour with all purpose flour, but I do think that using all whole wheat pastry flour will still result in a good cookie.
You can use any ratio of rolled and quick oats- I like a bit more texture, so I like to use more of the rolled.
If your coconut is dry, the cookies won't be as good. The best cookies I made had freshly grated coconut (from a coconut I grated in the food processor the day before), but I have had good results with packaged coconut also, as long as it isn't dry.
I have successfully frozen these cookies in ziploc bags and thawed them on the counter with no degradation of taste or texture, and I've dropped the dough onto parchment paper and frozen that in ziplocs to bake later.