One thing you definitely learn as a parent (if you don't still remember from when you were a kid), is that kid's priorities are different. Ok, I'll admit, that sounds like a no-brainer, but I don't necessarily mean that they'd rather take a trip to the toy store than the grocery store. I guess what brought it to mind was a conversation I had with my kids this morning.
I was in the middle of mixing up some butterscotch pudding for my husband to take with his lunches, and thinking about the fact that I needed to get things pulled together for my oldest's Cub Scout meeting this evening, plus I had side dish ideas running around in my head to go with the baked salmon being planned for dinner. It was (nearly) all food on the brain ... which got me to thinking that I was going to have to figure out something about a cake for the middle one's birthday in about a month.
So, I asked him ... "What kind of cake do you want for your birthday?" He pondered it for a few minutes and said "CHOCOLATE!" (I should have guessed.) "I want a chocolate one for my birthday!" The two-year old came into the room, asking if I was making chocolate muffins. (I made them for breakfast a week or so back, and they were a huge hit.)
"No," said Matthew ... "I said I want a chocolate cake for my birthday!" To which Ryan responded, "And for MY birthday, I want a HUGE cake!"
Sometimes it's all about priorities.
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