Cooking For Joy
These Little Snack Cakes Are Inspired by Twinkies
My kid loves them — and so do I
I, too, am at home with a young child, wondering what in the name of all that is holy to do with him for 12 hours a day, worry rising over the fact that I don’t have what it takes to give him what he needs intellectually on a regular basis.
I see your “messy” beautiful craft projects, the way your child neatly presses a perfectly crisp leaf into wax paper to create a memory of this wild ride we’re all on, the pipe cleaners and sparkly paint you just happened to have lying around before this all started.
I’m tired. And — confession — Nick, my husband, and I are sleeping a LOT right now. (Yes, we suck. But it’s not like it helps with the daytime hours. It just feels good in the moment.) It’s pretty hard to get motivated to start a project with this sweet darling angel, let alone deal with the inevitable pushback that comes after the initial suggestion. (“Can I waaaatch something?”)
One thing that my kid will say yes to 95 percent of the time, though? Baking. (Let’s forget for a second that he usually only lasts for five minutes or so, leaving me to deal with the majority of the project while Nick takes over the wrangling.)
