“I need cookies tomorrow for a Christmas party at school. About 40. Maybe 50,” my son happily announced at 10pm as he went to bed.
“Tomorrow?? You couldn’t have told me this at 3 when you got home? What happens if you don’t bring them?”
“Then I can’t go.”
Sigh. No pressure.
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Ugh. And then you wonder, “Is this the time when we have a lesson in natural consequences, or I do I want to be Supermom again?” Always hard to decide!
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Yes! That’s exactly what I was thinking. I normally choose the consequences route, but decided to go with supermom this time. Well… half supermom, because I had no ingredients on hand. He had to settle for store bought.
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Definitely store bought at 10 pm!
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Yep. 🙂
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My son does this all the time with projects, you know the kind where you have to go out and buy 30 dollars worth of supplies, drives me crazy! And now I want chocolate chip cookies!
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Oh no! I haven’t had that happen yet, thankfully. Makes me wonder though how many times we did this with our moms. Me too – fresh baked chocolate chip cookies sound so good right now.
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I’m really craving some cookies, thanks for that, lol!
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Chips Ahoy to the rescue! Boys, eh? I’m positive I never did that to my mom!
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That’s exactly what I bought! Sure you didn’t… haha. But if you truly didn’t, then wow. Good kid you were.
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Well, I wanted to lick the bowl. So it wasn’t entirely out of kindness!
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Oh yes, that is the best part of baking.
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All too familiar.
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Uh oh, you have had this issue too, eh? Kids will be kids, I suppose.
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Not so much now. (I thank technology. The teachers my kids have had use it endlessly to update and alert! It’s annoying, but better than those last minute projects!)
I can remember my son coming home one night, saying he needed a shoebox, sand, rocks, leaves — to make a sediment display. It was February in Indiana.:(
I also remember my eldest daughter brushing her teeth one night, telling me she had a project due Monday, and needed some posterboard. I said, “Tomorrow is Monday.” She said, “Ooops.” So yeah, I totally relate.
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Ha! Your son’s project makes me wonder what the school teacher was thinking. Who’s going to be able to find sand and leaves in February? Now, your daughter’s on the other hand…I think I’d be taping together multiple pieces of paper and she’d have to hope for the best. 🙂
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Haha! Well I went and got some and Monday morning sure did come early that week! 😉
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Good job! I’m sure she appreciated that.
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Oh! He is SO every child! 🙂
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Isn’t he though? Ha! I love it when he has ‘typical’ kid moments. 🙂
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It made me chuckle in such a familiar way.
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Ha ha!! No pressure at all 😀
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Right? How could I not have him be a part? That would make for a rotten school day. He may not have gotten homemade, but at least he got something.
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That’s what you call a challenge!
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Seriously! After mentally searching my cabinets and realizing all I had on hand was sugar and butter, he had to settle for store bought. Thankfully, he was just as happy with that – good thing too, because that’s the only option I gave him. 🙂
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Hahaha… uff… that was a close call…
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I’m so glad you came through – and store bought is totally acceptable in that situation!! 🙂
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I completely agree. I’m sure there are some moms out there who would pull out the cookie sheets, throw on some tunes and dance around in their kitchen until 3am baking the best last-minute cookies in the world… but that mom is not me.
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That mom is not me, either! LOL. And I don’t have any shame associated with it, my strengths are elsewhere!!
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Exactly!
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Kids: they’re all the same. 🙄
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They sure are.
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