My shoulders ached. My blood pressure certainly was high.

I had just finished doing a baking project with my children.

For some reason, each of my boys took turns throwing a mini-temper tantrum while the other child was happily taking his turn to help.

Devin filmed some of our cooking because he wanted to make our own cooking show & not too far into the “recording” I was thinking there’s no way we can show this awfulness to anyone. Unless of course we had our own reality show, you know, the dysfunctional kind?

On a brighter note, here are a few things I’ve learned from my cooking adventures with little kids:

1. Having the finished product result in edible adult food may be too lofty a notion.

2. If cooking with more than 2 helpers & they start acting up, consider having them help separately while the others are playing.

3. If kids are real young you could have the ingredients already measured out in cups & bowls that way they’ll only have to pour & stir when you tell them too. * You can still teach them about quantities by pointing out what 2 cups of flour or 1 tablespoon of vanilla look like.

Now hopefully none of this will apply to you because you have cherub-chefs for children.

If this does apply; don’t forget to breathe.