Butter for the table

Sunday Dinner or Holiday Feast or is it just the Zoo?  Seventten People, family and friends broken down into ten adults and seven children.  You already know this means the 'little people" have the advantage.

First you must always remember the basics:

1. When children leave you to go to Grandmas or Aunt or Uncle So and so's etc.. they are Perfect well minded angels (this is to make you look like a fool when you are complaing about them)

2.  Tehy are always good when te kid next door babysits (who wouldn't when the one in charge lets you do anything short of buring down the house)

3.  The kids are pretty good when dad is a home but the minute he leaves, "life as we like it is over!"

4.  When they have mom alone, their main objective is two things--- search and destryoy!

5. When you have company and they get together with other children, world war three is a possibility.

WWIII will happen unless you not anyone but YOU commander in chief Mom, have sneaky fun, yet timely memories up your sleeve!  Timing and being prepared are the key factor here.  Now, for a group of ideas you can use or change to make a holiday gathering a happy time.

you have known about the "feast" as that tatoo on your forhead sayig "sucker" was not covered by bangs so the general population is decending upon you.  but not to fear Super MOm is here!  you saved that plastic gallong milk jug with screw on top and picked up a container of Heavy Whipping cream.  You are prepared.

A half hour before dinner, the troops arrived mothers fathers and kids... all in your kitchen... helping (?) You get their attention with  "who wants to make butter for the dinner table?"  All eyes are on you; the grown-ups are thinging you have lost it and the kids all want to do it!

Calmly you get the jug pour in the heavy cream add a pinch of salt screw on the top and esxplain how to do this butter making thing.

    "When you have the jug, you shake it very hard five times and say 'yaba daba do willie wonka says give it to you' and throw it or roll it to the next person after turning around twice"

So if its nice, seven kids and milk jug go outside to make putter and ten sighs escape from ten parents.  when the cream has formed a wad you cut intothe jug divide in half and its ready for the table fresh homemade butter.  the kids feel like they have contributed to hte feast and you were able to rid them from your hair for a short duration.  By the way if its miserable outsdie have them sit in a circle and roll it back and forth but still shake it perfeably doing this in the basement out of ear shot!