Adventures in Kitchen Land.
"Mom, Mom, Can we please make red velvet cupcakes. Please.. We bought the mix at the store last week. Please????" Yelled Bethany from the kitchen to her mother in the other room.
Mom was in the middle of changing loads, finishing up cleaning the down stairs bath and vacuuming the floor. She didn't know where she was going to squeeze in a few minutes to make some cupcakes.
She switched loads quickly, shook out the rugs, and finished her vacuuming and walked into the kitchen. Sitting at the island were her two little daughters, six and three. Set on the island in perfect order and patterned by color, were cupcake holders.
"Can we Mom?" Bethany asked again.
"Yes" Mom quickly replied.
"Do we have the things that you put the cupcakes in?"
"Yes let me go get some."
Mom ran off, well not ran, but went swiftly, though feeling the pain of her morning run. A new goal in her life lately. Making cupcakes probably doesn't help with that goal, but oh well. She went to the storage room, pulled out the tins and returned to her smiling girls.
Together they laughed and talked as they whipped up the cupcakes. After each tin was full, the girls covered their faces in red sticky goo as they licked the beaters.
10 years ago
1 comment:
Great writing. I could feel the mother's exhaustion at first and her satisfaction of her daughters' delight in the end.
The better choice. Although the results of watching her diet and spending all day cleaning the house would be more apparent, the last effects of choosing her children above that will bring her eternal rewards.
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