A Few Minutes of Peace...

The kids are watching the tail end of "Return of the Jedi".
Good stuff.
They're wicked into it - they can tell you the names of all the obscure characters and the numbers of all the droids.  Who is bad...who is good...the difference between Jedi and Sith...what the different color light sabres mean...the different species...
It's more than I can keep up with.

We made some cupcakes this afternoon because, obviously, my kids don't have enough sugar in their diets already and we're desperately trying to stave off cabin fever by keeping everyone busy. 
We're hoping that we can make the cupcakes into a nice caterpillar, but either way, they'll taste good.  We used an old school Fanny Farmer recipe.  Can't go wrong with Fanny.
Here was all the help I had baking.
Because Benjamin had crawled up on the counter and tried to eat the batter hand over fist out of the bowl, we had less to bake than anticipated.  The clean up took longer, too.
Par for the course.
Who wouldn't love baking with this kind of help?