A Recipe for a Relaxing Sabbath

Sometimes you just have to lick the bowl clean.

First of all I would like to know when my seven year old is going to figure out the difference between a fridge and a freezer because when I ask her to put the chicken in the fridge and I find it frozen solid three hours later when I'm ready to cook it I have to think we have a problem.

This is also a reminder not to cook with both of your kids at the same time. Just because it's Father's Day doesn't mean you should help one child make blank while helping the other child make blank. Everyone will dance around, fight and destroy the entire kitchen while the screaming two year old pokes her fingers into everything that she has to have "RIGHT NOW" but you keep telling her is for later.

At some point when the flour is flying and the butter is melting all over the bottom of the microwave you will say, "This is why people don't cook with their children. It is just too frustrating! I should get some kind of award for doing this today."

Then your kids will say, "What kind of award do you want?"

"Oh, Mother of the Year or Greatest Mother in the World or something like that."

"Ok, I'm going to make you one!"

"No I am!"

"No, we'll make it together and then I'll give it to her."

"No, I'll give it to her!"

"No I will and stop telling her what we're doing or it won't be a surprise!"

"She doesn't know what we're talking about! You don't know what we're talking about do you Mom?"

"No, of course not. I can't hear a single word of your yelling at each other. Whatever you're planning will be a big surprise and as long as you make a big mess and argue during the whole process I will be sure to love it," you will say.

And then the fighting will continue as you make everyone clean up the mess and send them to bed except that when they smell bedtime coming they start acting nice and cute and cuddling and reading to each other and then they know they have you right where they want you and you will let them stay up as late as they want and they are right.