Every once in a while I score.
I like to make fun things, but I have learned that as a mother I am not the most patient person and cooking with my kids is not as fun as I would like it to be. I really want to be that mom in the "Parents" magazine that is perfectly together and has her children all gathered around her as they bake delicacies and laugh and enjoy each other.
I really would.
The reality is that with two kids with ADHD, one of them also with Aspergers, a tweener with an attitude, a 7 year old that would rather play Wii, and a toddler I just can't have the"fun enjoyable moment" that I see in magazines. NOT that I am blaming it all on them....oh no!...I fully admit to being a little bit OCD and controlling about "my kitchen".
So, I do what I can when I can.
I wanted to make these cute cookies for Halloween because they are Sooooooo cute and hello...they are cookies!
I got all the stuff together and for family night we made our own. It was mostly fun and the kids liked being able to eat them. I think we will do this every year!
October 19, 2010
Home Run
from Pezlady Jana at 10:18 AM
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Love this post Jana! I feel like that quite often too -- I finally decided that, like most things in magazines, those shots are staged -- no one is really that perfect!
The cookies are really cute! Good job Mom! Love you most.
The cookies are adorable!!! Sometimes I think the entire purpose of magazines are to make us feel bad about ourselves; perfectly thin woman with the coolest clothes in a designer kitchen baking with the kids every day after school, after making the daily homemade bread, volunteering at several different places, working in her gorgeous garden, cleaning the perfectly organized house, making meals for dinner that are oh so healthy but somehow the whole family devours them because they are so delicious. I could go on and on!!! Is this one of those subtle tools of the adversary, to make us feel bad about ourselves? I say yes!!! But of course I'm still going to punish myself and still look through all the magazines!!!
The cookies are adorable!!! Sometimes I think the entire purpose of magazines are to make us feel bad about ourselves; perfectly thin woman with the coolest clothes in a designer kitchen baking with the kids every day after school, after making the daily homemade bread, volunteering at several different places, working in her gorgeous garden, cleaning the perfectly organized house, making meals for dinner that are oh so healthy but somehow the whole family devours them because they are so delicious. I could go on and on!!! Is this one of those subtle tools of the adversary, to make us feel bad about ourselves? I say yes!!! But of course I'm still going to punish myself and still look through all the magazines!!!
Okay, so I totally thought they were Twinkies. Can you imagine how much faster it would be to frost Twinkies? I might even do that...or not. I love to see the images, too, but hate how inadequate I feel. Nobody does that. Only grandmas. Something to look forward to.
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