Snow Day

Wow, we thought a couple inches were coming and it's more like 10 and still going!  No school today!

No school meant Owen was already saying "I'm bored!" by 9am.  I set out measured ingredients for cookies in small bowls and labelled each one with a number.  Then, I wrote up a kindergarten-friendly recipe with readable words that went like this:

Mix 1 and 2 and 3 a lot
Mix 4
Mix 5 and 6
Mix 7 and 8
Mix 9 and 10
Mix 11
Scoop on cookie sheets

I asked the boys if they would like to make cookies with NO HELP FROM MOM.  Squeals of delight and peals of giggles followed this query.  These boys love to accomplish something solo!  (Who doesn't?)  I bravely left them to it (they know how to run the mixer), told them they were not to touch the oven or its controls, and took Eden upstairs with me and got a shower.  When I came down, there were two boys with chocolate brown teeth and tongues, puffed up chests and big smiles.  Also, there were two full cookie sheets of dough balls!  The only things amiss were a smattering of cookie ingredients on the floor, including two full broken eggs, and a tea ball covered in cookie dough.

Me:  Wow, guys, you did it!  Congratulations, I'm proud of you!
Them:  Yeah!!!!!!  We did it without you!
Me:  I can see that!  I can also see chocolate in your mouths [pretend frown].  Did you ask if you could eat chocolate?
Them: [looking askance] Well, we just tried some dough.  It's SO yummy.
Me:  Ha ha, I'm just kidding!  If you make cookies you always get to taste the dough!!  So, what happened with these eggs?
Owen:  Well, we couldn't get the first two to work, but we got it on the third one!
Me:  And how about this? [holding up tea ball]
Asher:  There's only one cookie scoop so I tried to use that one but it doesn't work right.

:)

And now it's 10:45 and they are watching a short bit of a show.  They've already played in the snow all morning before 9 while Reuel shoveled.  I am going to run out of steam and ideas by noon, I fear.  Bring out the library books!  (I am not helped by Eden's wakefulness from 2:30-4:30am, caused by skipped naps, caused by contractors...rrrrrr.)

Movie is done!
Owen:  What can I do???????