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How to make muffins (before kids & after)
Kari
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How to make muffins before having kids:
Gather ingredients, mix, bake, cool, eat.
How to make muffins after having kids:
Mix dry ingredients the night before in case the morning is hectic.
Next morning, hand baby a toy and then mix wet ingredients. Wipe up egg spill on floor with lysol wipes before baby drops toy in it.
Add dry ingredients and stir. Hand baby a new toy. Give preschooler juice. Remove preschooler's paci since he's still contagious to baby.
Spray muffin tins and use ice cream scoop to spoon mix into muffin tins. Argue with preschooler that you are using the scoop right now. Place dishes in sink, and muffins in oven. Put baby in the walker. Set timer for 15 minutes. Dash into shower.
Be interrupted in shower by baby who clearly smells like a poopy diaper for the first time in five days. Dry off. Change baby. Realize this is a blow-out that requires a bath before re-diapering.
Check muffins. Reset timer for 3 minutes. Put baby in bath and let her soak. Pull her out onto towel when timer goes off. Reset timer for 2 more minutes and put baby back in bath tub for a scrub-down. Remove baby and leave her wet on towel. Check muffins and remove from oven. Set timer for 5 minutes to let them cool.
Diaper and dress baby/rolling octopus while explaining to preschooler that you will set up the tent in a few minutes. Listen to preschooler cry and refuse to get dressed. Remove muffins from tin before they stick. Negotiate with preschooler that you will assemble tent after he's dressed. Dress preschooler, set up tent, get two muffins and put them on a plate. Get crying baby, nursing pillow, and burp cloth. Move to couch, set up baby, bite into muffin. Eat three because you feel you've earned them. Delicious!
Gather ingredients, mix, bake, cool, eat.
How to make muffins after having kids:
Mix dry ingredients the night before in case the morning is hectic.
Next morning, hand baby a toy and then mix wet ingredients. Wipe up egg spill on floor with lysol wipes before baby drops toy in it.
Add dry ingredients and stir. Hand baby a new toy. Give preschooler juice. Remove preschooler's paci since he's still contagious to baby.
Spray muffin tins and use ice cream scoop to spoon mix into muffin tins. Argue with preschooler that you are using the scoop right now. Place dishes in sink, and muffins in oven. Put baby in the walker. Set timer for 15 minutes. Dash into shower.
Be interrupted in shower by baby who clearly smells like a poopy diaper for the first time in five days. Dry off. Change baby. Realize this is a blow-out that requires a bath before re-diapering.
Check muffins. Reset timer for 3 minutes. Put baby in bath and let her soak. Pull her out onto towel when timer goes off. Reset timer for 2 more minutes and put baby back in bath tub for a scrub-down. Remove baby and leave her wet on towel. Check muffins and remove from oven. Set timer for 5 minutes to let them cool.
Diaper and dress baby/rolling octopus while explaining to preschooler that you will set up the tent in a few minutes. Listen to preschooler cry and refuse to get dressed. Remove muffins from tin before they stick. Negotiate with preschooler that you will assemble tent after he's dressed. Dress preschooler, set up tent, get two muffins and put them on a plate. Get crying baby, nursing pillow, and burp cloth. Move to couch, set up baby, bite into muffin. Eat three because you feel you've earned them. Delicious!
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This, in a nutshell, and very laymen's terms is why I am one and done. As soon as everything got "easy" it was time to think about having another. Then my bosses had another. I hadn't carried a diaper bag for almost a year when L was born. Everyone was potty trained, speaking in full sentences and all of the sudden I was leaving the house with a small army again!
I admire those who do this, that their desire for a sibling for their child pushes them past the first couple of years. I just couldn't do it. We made banana bread tonight. From scratch. And by we I mean she did 1/2 the work.
Hats off to you and I hope you enjoyed the muffins as you definitely deserved them!