Day 8 - Baking and Such

Dear Jennifer,

I'm not starting this with a diary entry, as I do know it is in there. I wanted to start with a memory.  Do you remember the time when I was 10 and mom was at work.  I wanted so badly to make everyone chocolate chip cookies, but they cam out flat and tasted awful.  My childhood friend came over and he laughed while I cried because I couldn't figure out what happened.  So I called mom and started reading off the ingredients...

Chocolate chips? Check
Eggs? Check
Baking Soda? Check
Baking Powder? Check
Salt? Check
Brown Sugar? Check
White Sugar? Check
Flour....Flour....Flour?????

Uhm...... So I apparently had forgotten  a pretty major ingredient.  Wesley wanted to use them as frisbies, mom said I had to throw them away, I think we used one as a frisbie until it broke and threw the others away.

This is really sad to say, yesterday was the first time I have ever baked with my son.  My daughter was at her football game and he and I were sitting watching TV.

"Do you want to bake a pie?" I asked him.  He looked at me, see he is on this phineas and ferb kick...
"Yes mother, I do." (Yes, he does say mother, and yes he is that formal...)
"Let's do it!"  I got up and he sat there for a moment.
"I've never baked a pie, mother!"  (So far i'm doing a lot of these new things with my son which has been great.  I've sent dad out all these errands)
"No biggie, we will just follow the recipe!"

My handsome son opened up the drawer and grabbed a large spoon.  I handed him 29 oz can of pumpkin and told him to figure out 15 oz.  He sure did, he might not have been right on but he got it pretty close. I watched as he used his head to come up with different ideas, he spooned in his pumpkin, figured out how to get the right amount of spice and I got the egg whites.

What shocked me, is when we were done, I turned to wash the dishes. Guess what? my 8 year old son had washed the mixing bowl and mixer. He dried his hands high-fived me and said "Let's do this again sometime!" he returned to watching TV.

The pie wasn't bad. It was a weight watchers pie so it was less calories, but it really wasn't too bad.  I am so excited that I got to try something new with him.

The good news I received yesterday was that my donors choose project was funded. Someone donated 1000 to my cause and I am able to get a few graphing calculators and computers.

Until Tomorrow....