Making Brownies, New Shoes

You really haven't made brownies, until you've made brownies with twin two-year-old boys! It was a rainy day, we couldn't play outside after work/daycare... "good mothers" bake with their kids on such occassions, right? I tried it. It will be a WHILE before I try that again. And that was even using a boxed mix (do "good mothers" use boxed mixes?). My quest for "good mother" status seems endlessly fruitless.

By this morning, they were all clean and shiny again, and wearing their brand new fall shoes for the first time. I took a photo to show how well they clean up! Notice I cropped the photo so you can't see that the kitchen is still a wreck! :)