{"id":2495,"date":"2014-09-01T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2014-09-01T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:11:55","slug":"self-reliance-the-hard-or-rather-nonexistent-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2014\/09\/self-reliance-the-hard-or-rather-nonexistent-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Self-Reliance the Hard (or, Rather, Nonexistent) Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning, Pie comes bounding into the bedroom as I’m getting up.<\/p>\n

Pie: Do we have blueberries?<\/p>\n

Me: Why, yes, I believe we got pack from Boston Organics<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Pie: May I make blueberry muffins?<\/p>\n

Me: That sounds like a great idea. Go flip through one of your kid cookbooks and find a recipe. Also check my whole grains cookbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later she comes back.<\/p>\n

Pie: Your whole grains cookbook didn’t have one, but my kid’s cookbook<\/a> does. Can I make it?<\/p>\n

I look at the recipe.<\/p>\n

Me: It’s got a lot of butter but, well, sure. Go for it!<\/p>\n

About 15 minutes later, we’re in the kitchen. I look at the recipe.<\/p>\n

Me: Okay the first thing you need to do is get the butter from the fridge and melt it on the stove.<\/p>\n

Pie: Can you do that?<\/p>\n

Me: No, you’re the baker.<\/p>\n

Pie: But I’m only nine. I can’t use the oven or stove.<\/p>\n

Me: You are already<\/em> nine, which is a fine time to learn properly and safely to use the oven and stove.<\/p>\n

Pie: I think nine is too young.<\/p>\n

Me: Do you know that when I was nine, if wanted cookies, they only way I could get them would be if I baked them? I followed the recipe on the back of the Nestle’s package and made Tollhouse Cookies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adam: And it always comes back to your poor, difficult childhood.<\/p>\n

Me: You [to Adam], shut up. You [to Pie], get the butter.<\/p>\n

Pie: You do it! I’m not going to use the oven or the stove! Can’t you do it for me?<\/p>\n

Me: No. I don’t even like blueberry muffins. I’m not making them. If you want blueberry muffins, you will learn to use the oven and stove. I will be by your side helping you, but you will do it.<\/p>\n

Pie: BUT IF I USE THE OVEN I WILL BURN MYSELF AND DIE<\/em>!!!<\/p>\n

Needless to say (though I’ll do so anyway), there were no blueberry muffins yesterday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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