I love to bake. Yup, I am THAT mom. I don't always bake from scratch, and I don't ALWAYS have homemade treats, but then again, I also have 3 kids 3 and under. For a while, before my last pregnancy, I was making homemade bread on a (at least) weekly basis.
Now, I will admit, I cheat sometimes. I have a bread machine, so I am certainly not spending a ton of time kneading and tending to bread. I toss the ingredients in and go.
I use mixes for my cakes. I have NEVER made a good cake from scratch. I can do pie, and cookies, and a lot of other stuff, but cakes, not really.
This afternoon I made cookie bars (or I should say, am making, they are in the oven as I type). Why? I felt like we needed cookie bars.
So why does this make my a bad mom? Three reasons.
First off, what were my kids doing while I was baking? Bee was sleeping on the floor. G-man was emptying the play kitchen and just in general being destructive (at least there wasn't any dog-food eating today!) and Elf was parked in front of Phineas and Ferb. So, yup, I neglect my kids in order to make them treats. Seriously non-healthy treats.
Second, I bake when I should be doing other things. Like laundry. Or dusting. Or vacuuming. Or really any other form of housework. So, I may have good treats, but my house is a wreck and the laundry doesn't get folded when I get it in my head that I need to bake.
Third, and possibly most important, I don't cook. That's right, I bake, but I don't cook. Not to say I NEVER cook, I do... I make pasta or crock pot meals and a few other things. But on a day-to-day basis, my husband (have I mentioned he is wonderful?!?) Does the cooking. If it weren't for him, we would either a) starve or b) live on cereal.
So, we are having cookie bars for dessert.
And Lord help me if my kids go to a school that doesn't allow homemade treats!
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