marbles

This morning i went to the school to do primary cooking. The order of the day? Pumpkin muffins. Four children (+parker and eliza) two mommies = no problem? WRONG.
Some brilliant mom thought that we would use a scale this year instead of measuring cups – because that is SO practical. I always measure flour in marble weights in my house. I'm sure that in the Martha Stewart test kitchen EVERYBODY knows how much 8 barnyard animals worth of pumpkin is.
The recipe went like this:
22 marbles flour
15 wooden blocks brown sugar
3 crayons baking powder
you get the idea.
The mother in charge is a little – eager. Her first child in school, everything in cute little fonts, personalized aprons! Egads. And me, tired, cranky and just wanting to do a little simple baking.
A couple! hours later we had 12 beautiful pumpkin muffins and 4 kids who had missed the whole morning of school to make 30 minute muffins.