If you want to make pancakes for breakfast. . . . .

This is my version of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie". It is a true story, just happened a few moments ago:



If you decide you want to make whole wheat pancakes for the kids for breakfast, you'll have to get out the mix from the freezer.

When you get the mix out, you'll see that you only have 1 cup of mix and you need 3 cups of mix. So, you'll have to make more mix.

When you try to get the wheat berries out of the cupboard to grind them up into flour, you'll discover that you don't have an open can. So, you'll have to go downstairs to get a new can.

When you turn the light on in the under-the-stairs storage closet, you remember that you didn't ever put away the new cans of white flour and now they are in your way. You can't even get to the wheat that is in the back of the closet. So, you'll have to put the cans of white flour away.

Once you've put the cans of white flour on the bottom of the stack so that the oldest are on top, you are able to climb on your hands and knees to the back of the closet to look for wheat.

Once you are crammed into the back of the closet and the wood from the staircase above is scratching your back, you discover that you cannot read the labels on the boxes because your head is blocking the light. You didn't bring a flashlight and you really really don't want to go get one so you just open the box that you think you are looking for and pull up one of the cans enough to see that it is not wheat but oats. You can't find the wheat so you'll have to back out of the closet.

As you back out, you see a stack of cans on your right, close to the front of the closet, where you can stand up and you remember that months ago when you got you wheat grinder, you decided to move the wheat to the front of the closet where it would be easily accessible. So, you get a can of wheat.

When you return to the kitchen with your can of wheat, you find that your kids got tired of waiting and are going to have cereal for breakfast. So, you'll just have to laugh about it or you'll start the day off wrong.

I hope it gets better from here.