A Recipe for Success

The Ingredients of a Good Evening In-site:

1. Set small, portable speakers to playing Bob Marley in order to promote a care-free mood.
2. House invasion by several neighborhood 9-year olds.
3. Succumb to the children's desperate pleas for pancakes, on the condition that they help cook and clean.
4. *Someone* accidently adds ammonium to pancake batter instead of baking powder (it turns out that all small, plastic bags of white powder are NOT made the same).
5. Glance up from the stovetop-turned-pancake-factory to enjoy watching 7 young guests organize a dance-off to Bob Marley. Participate with own jigs that make everyone laugh.
6. Innocently serve ammonium-laced pancakes to the kids. Ask how they like it, and they say it makes their mouths burn. Taste the pretty, ammonium pancakes and instantly, intuitively know that something went terribly wrong.
7. Discover small, innocent bag of baking powder sitting on shelf next to small, toxic-upon-ingestion bag of ammonium. "Ahah!" moment. Throw out ammonium pancakes and mix together another batch of NH4-free batter.
8. Pacify children with a safer, more kid-friendly version of Pancakés Americanas and discuss why I don't have more movie celebrities as my Facebook friends. Isn't my home near that of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
9. Teach, play, and purposely lose at Go Fish for the umpteenth time.
10. Feel good about the world.