If you read yesterday’s post, you know of my pledge to be more fun with my kids. Today, on a dreary, rainy day, despite sleeping about 18 minutes last night, I decided to kick off Fun Mommy Day 1 by… making cookies! I checked the pantry and figured out that I did have all the ingredients for basic oatmeal raisin cookies (basic being the operative word because this momma is NOT a baker).
This endeavor fell somewhere between “not very successful” and “epic failure” due to a variety of factors:
1. My 6-week old son, who has been constipated for days, decided to start pooping again today– like every 12 minutes all morning long (and cry through all of it).
2. My older 2 kids had no interest in helping bake. This is because:
–My son never has interest in helping with any kitchen activity (or really any activity non-Lego-related these days)
–My daughter wants to do everything my son does.
So, despite the lack of enthusiasm, I remained optimistic. That’s okay! Mommy will start the process, they will want to jump in and help, and we will all have fun! The baby will cooperate and let me put him down and the cookies will be delicious! Or at least edible!
Wrong. On all accounts.
Cookies burned. Even my 4-year old, who will eat anything in cookie or muffin form, gnawed through half of one and finally said, “I will finish this later, mom.” Batch #2 was not quite burned, but is still dry and tasteless.
Well, as our gal-pal Scarlet O’Hara once said, “Tomorrow is another day!”