Day 12-Interruptions

I tripled the recipe

Or so I thought:

7 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

Then I sat it aside.

I began to measure the sugars, 

When two sweeties of mine asked a question.

After answering, I faced the counter again.

Only this time, my mind distracted,

Thought double, not triple--

If I thought at all.

2 cups dark brown sugar, firmly packed,

When it should have been 3.

1 cup white sugar 

And I needed 1 1/2.

Eggs--oops!

I only cracked 4.

Adding the vanilla 

And chocolate chips did not help.

The dough looked different 

As the mixer came to a stop.

Three more children

Interrupted to lick the bowl.

These are Mrs. Field's Blue Ribbon

Chocolate Chip Cookies--the cookbook claims.

I have made them 100 times before.

They bake, soft and gooey,

With warm, melting chocolate

Just waiting for a deserving mouth.

Something is wrong;

They don't taste exactly right.

What could have happened? Distracted

 I had unintentionally made 

A low-cholesterol, fewer-calorie cookie

Named "Interruption"!

I was reading old journals and found this poem I had begun April 1, 2000.  I thought it needed tweaking so that is what I did this afternoon after work.  Perhaps my family would have enjoyed my time spent baking chocolate chip cookies instead of writing about them, but I still have time.  My most favorite times with my family often happen at home in the kitchen.