Entertaining the Children
I know I’ve talked alot here about how I don’t think homeschooling is for me. And, I know it isn’t for my husband as he has less patience than I do. However, he is the one when in a crunch for entertainment will rig up some toy to do something it isn’t made to do, build a remote control something another or let the boys watch as he concocts something in the kitchen.
He isn’t too fond of the fact that they ask a lot of questions because he is so far above their level that he irritates him (see not a homeschooling kind of dude). But, he loves to show them the finished product. I normally just intervene and answer the questions or prod my husband into answering the ones I want to know the answers too myself.
Anyway, on Sunday mornings he lets me sleep in and he gets breakfast for the boys, irons their church clothes and gets them off to my mom’s to go to church. This morning, I awake to be told “breakfast is in the microwave”. Ok, that’s cool, I saw the empty muffin packs on the stove (he doesn’t do clean up near as well as he does mess up) so I assumed I was opening the fridge to get a couple of muffins.
Instead, I get this
I mean really, is this necessary. When you figure that they were late this morning and pressed for time…one would think that he would have just done the muffin pan thing. But no, Mr. I-do-not-have-the-patience-for-all-these-questions makes some weird looking muffin cake thing.
He said that Jace, the 4 year old who happens to be a pain in the behind about decisions, was whining because he did not want muffins. Until…he laid his eyes on this little muffin cake thing and then, all of the sudden he was a reformed kid, hollering for more muffins.
Oh well, whatever!
August 10th, 2009 at 9:49 am
haha, guess I shouldn’t tell ya I make these about twice a month. Goes great with a little butter too. haha. I have an entire shelf full of nothing but those little Jiffy mixes and sometimes, like your hubby, I don’t feel like doing each tiny little muffin holder thing. I’d rather pour the whole batch in and dish it out and then it is quick clean up. Otherwise I have to pop each one out, clean each one, etc.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I do that with the corn muffin mix, I add sugar and some frozen corn kernals, and sometimes some chopped up jalepeno peppers. It’s like a party.