Chie

Kiko’s apron is handmade – blogged here.

What do you do with your kids on rainy days? I have the biggest struggle of my parenting life finding things to do on rainy days for Kiko. Today was one of those days. It was cold and rainy out, and I was tired after work. I know Kiko likes to go to the community center to play with other kids and it is indoors, but sometimes I just am not in the mood for sitting there and watching her play, or worse, if she happens to want to exclusively play with me rather than playing with other kids..what’s the point of taking her to the community center!

Anyway, instead of the community center, we baked today. It was a lot of fun! We made banana muffins, and I used an easy recipe I found online that uses pancake mix, so I was able to skip the baking powder and flower mixture part.

Kiko “helped” a lot, from peeling the banana skin, stirring the dough, bringing the dishes to the sink and finally, helping with cleaning the bowl.

I wish my story ends here. It was all fun until then, but eventually I had to ask her to give the bowl back to me so we could move on to the next activity. I thought I gave her enough time. I talked with her, that she spent enough time licking the bowl and I wanted her to give the bowl back. She eventually gave it back to me, but with a whine and cry. Oh that wasn’t fun. I feel like it ruined all the fun time we had baking together. How would you deal with this kind of situation?

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