January 5, 2026

 No Spend Day #3

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Today’s spice: For the past few days my daughter has been requesting pancakes for breakfast. We got eggs and syrup with our groceries yesterday so today was the day. Honestly, watching her gather and dump the ingredients, mix up the batter, and clumsily dump it into the hot pan could be today’s spice. I forced myself to slow down, step aside and let her take the wheel this morning (something I really struggle with). 

But today’s high point, or the spark that really stood out to me was after she’d taken the egg out of the new carton. She set it into the half cup measure and turned back to the carton starting to adjust EVERY egg. She’s potentially the most exploratory child I know (and that’s saying ALOT) and regularly it drives me nuts! BUT today I purposefully let her touch every egg because SHE was making the pancakes. She turns and says to me, “I need to flip the eggs first because every time we get them they’re always on their tops.”

I could have rushed her along. I normally would have told her to stop touching all the eggs and get back to the pancakes but today I forced myself to pause and I learned something about eggs. I never noticed that they ALWAYS come on their tops. And I hadn’t realized they should be righted. Also, I had the pleasure of witnessing Wren’s curiously beautiful mind at work.

AND we built a snowman!