"The Great Pancake Massacre"

and so October 7, 2011 became the day of "The Great Pancake Massacre".

Before I go on I would like for the record to show that I DID make pancakes yesterday morning with no problems or complications whatsoever.

-"Anna do you want jelly biscuits for b'fast of pancakes again?"
-"Ughhh. Pancakes, yeah!"

Anna received the first pancake. It was a picture of perfection in the pancake realm, but it just went downhill from there. Her pancake was just the right shade of golden loveliness and as fluffy as your favorite pillow.
The others, however, =/..may they rest in peace.

I poured the batter, flipped at what I thought was the right time...NOPE wrong answer. The next 6 pancakes never had a chance. I'm not sure where the cooking took its turn down the wide path to destruction..but it did most certainly turn.
What was meant to be a nice quiet breakfast with my daughters soon turned into me running around to open all the doors and jumping up and down like a maniac waving a dish towel at the screaming smoke detector. [hey I'm not the only one who's been here]

Needless to say Anna is enjoying her pancake perfection while I sit in a hazy room that reeks of DEFEAT..who knew that DEFEAT smells like smoke that I'm sure will still be lingering when Adam gets home.

I'm wondering how many neighbors heard my smoke detector...after all it went off 4 times.
Oh the days as a stay-at-home mom....I love it!