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We’re doing an ice cream unit this week and so far, so good. We’ve enjoyed having fun with it. How can you not? It’s ice cream, right?

So I had this fabulous idea to make “ice cream cones” but instead of the regular ice cream, I’d use cones, cake batter and some frosting on top for the ice cream. (I can’t take all the credit for it, I’m sure I read it out there somewhere in the wide world of cyber space.) It DID sound like a great idea. Oh yeah, I’m sure it did. But I was sort of lazy. You see I didn’t want to make my own butter cream frosting so I got the ever-popular frosting in a can. You know it’s all the rage in our drive through, throw away society (oh wait, I’m writing about the ice cream cones….right…gotcha…I’m back on track).

My darlings knew they were getting “ice cream cones” and were uber excited. Couldn’t keep out of the kitchen excited. Laying around watching excited. Yep, this fun tie in to the unit snack idea was going to be a winner. I just knew it.

Here’s where things start happening. Cake baked in cups….cake overflows. No problem! I’ll just cut off the tops. But it gets better. Oh yeah, much much better. As I was thinking how to “pipe” the “ice cream” on the top, I decided to use a regular icing bag but only with the coupler. Right on! It’d look like soft serve ice cream that came out of the machine. I’m a cool mom! This is gonna be great! Until…

When I starting to add the frosting, it won’t even stay in the bag. Frosting is going all over the counter, the plate with the cake filled cones. I’m filling the bag as fast as I can and icing the cones even faster. It’s melting all over. Darlings keep asking when are they getting their ice cream cones. Frosting is literally ALL OVER the place. Melting down the sides. All over my hands. On the plate. It was no use. I did the best I could. As I realized they couldn’t eat these melting mounds of sugar right away, I promptly decided to cool em down in the frig. As I transfer the disasters yummy goodness to the frig, they all TOPPLE over. What??? My cool mom status is being warmed down right with that frosting. I thought I might cry. There was frosting all over. Darlings still asking when their ice cream cones are coming. Yeah, I think I’ll cry.

Well all this to say. The sweet darlings LOVED their ice cream cones! Guess what? They don’t care what they look like or how much of a mess is made. It’s the THOUGHT that COUNTS. Isn’t that what we heard as children? They want our time, our creativity (they don’t care if we’ve stolen borrowed the idea), and our love. They want us. They want some messy, frosting-melting, fallen over ice cream cones because it comes from us. So go ahead and do it. Give them your imperfect, your messies. They’ll fall head over heels for your sweetness.

Love,

Rachel