So.
Last week, faced with the need for three separate batches of cupcakes for different events and something to occupy a certain someone who is already on summer vacation, I thought I had a stroke of genius:
And all was going really well, until suddenly, I had this thought:
Had I really taught her how to fish freed myself up to blog or... to grow up into the one who has to make the cupcakes?
Darn.
I've already messed up, haven't I?
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I taught my BOYS to be the ones who make the cookies and cupcakes. So I guess that makes ME the feminist.
Empowering your child is never wrong. Especially if it means that someone else cooks.
I have boys. They can cook without setting the kitchen on fire, but so far I shoo them away from the oven. I let my 10 year old make biscuits once. They were ready and he didn't put on an oven mitt. He just reached in before I could stop him and grabbed the cookie sheet. He squalled for an hour! Good thing was he wasn't burned seriously.
I think that's awesome, but maybe it's because I do the exact. same. thing...
She's happy. I'm happy. What's the harm?!
:)
You crack me up!
I have taught my daughter how to drive over to the store and buy the cupcakes, so you are a good mom:)
Nope! You've taught her that she can fulfill her own cupcake cravings whenever she darn well wants to.
I wish my husband could really cook, but he's only truly comfortable making grilled cheese sandwiches. Tasty, but not exactly exacting.
You had me at Schmollister!
Damn.
Damn.
Oh...just damn.
Many a time, I've stood up in my cube at work screaming.. 'OK, I smell yellow cake!'.. Cake-baking (even lil cup size) is an artform!!!...EVERYONE needs to know how to make cake.. and not for the reasons of functions/events... just b/c cake is MY crack!!! :)
Ant Cupcakes! ANTS in the cupcakes!
My parents believed all children (regardless of sex - or should that be how they arrived.. anyway) all children should be able to cook, clean, change a fuse and a tyre, do the washing, iron, clean the pigshed and much out the stable.
Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like child slavery...... Not a bad idea really...
Happy 2nd birthday Ms MadMad - I love the tangled yoke and I'm pleased to see that you're putting your children to work. Mine are unfortunately in quarantine for a week because we passed through the swine flu capital of the universe on our way back from a tropical island. I need you to make me laugh. Or make me cupcakes..
It's only sexist if you wouldn't have done the same thing to Boy, and we all know you're an equal opportunity child-laborer, so no harm done!
Whoever needs to take the cupcakes should bake the cupcakes. Unless someone else enjoys doing it more.
While I was taking treats to my students on a weekly basis last semester, Danger Boy and Social Butterfly took turns making them. DB does brownies and cookies, SB does cupcakes.
Schmollister. LOL. My oldest daughter (age 17) just got a job working at Schmollister. I can't wait for the hilarity to ensue. Mine, not hers. Oh, and the paychecks to start coming in. Hers, not mine.
She looks happy enough making the cupcakes, don't mess with it. :)
No you need to teach her that making cup cakes is a fun, creative activity that she can do as a choice. Not as a must!
Everyone should know how to make cupcakes. Everyone.
Um, I think you failed Martha Stewart school - points for trying with the vase of flowers, but I think the box of cake mix is an automatic FAIL!
Also, your kitchen is HUGE!!
And I'm with whoever said that passing off the cooking chores to someone else is a win in my book!!
Who's to say she'll spend the rest of her life baking cupcakes for other people? Now she can use this skill to bake her own cupcakes in college when she has a craving. Nothing wrong with knowing how to bake cupcakes. Besides, whoever bakes the cupcakes gets to lick out the bowl. :)
If that's your entire list of worries, can I send you mine so I don't have to think about them anymore?
I think you taught her how to open a box of Dunkin' Hines.
You have a plant growing out of a greek yogurt cup. You couldn't have messed up terribly. But just to be sure, send me a cupcake and I'll sample it.
You put fish in your cupcakes?
Hey, making good cupcakes is a valid life skill! At least that's what I've told my girls (over and over).
cupcakes...that's the problem?? she can make them-I can see her doing it-LOL!!
whoa--quite a realization! But look at Giada on the Food Network--sexy, career woman whom makes millions whipping up great food!
everyone does need to know how to make cupcakes. it is one of those life long lessons that will get them out of many a bind! i think i have to go wake the boys and teach them NOW!
(well, maybe i should let them wake up on their own...)
she is adorable!
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