What I love about being a mom:

My children think I invented cinnamon sugar.

When our carpool buddy, Trent, climbed in the car this morning, I could tell by the delicious smell on his clothes that his mom had gotten up earlier than I had and made him a good breakfast. When I asked he told me he'd had bacon, chocolate chip pancakes and juice. I wanted to get a handle on just how big of a slacker I am, compared with Trent's majorly pregnant mom, so I asked him if it was someone's birthday. He said it wasn't, so then I flat out asked him if he gets special breakfasts like that all the time or just some days. He said he usually just has oatmeal (phew!) with two scoops of brown sugar, to which Eric replied that that's what he usually has, except he has cinnamon sugar on top. Then he said:

"That's cinnamon and sugar mixed together. It's this thing we made up. Right Mama?"

I tried to skirt around the issue by saying that it was true that I did make the cinnamon sugar myself, but no, I didn't make it up. But I did make it though. From scratch. You may not know this if you didn't have a working mom who doesn't like to cook, but you can actually buy cinnamon sugar at the store. So I get points for that, right? And just the thought that my kids actually thought it was my brilliant idea was enough to make my day.

***Post Edit: They are not actually peeing into the pond in the picture. That is something I might be found letting them do, but I would have the sense not to take a picture while they were doing it!