The dreaded project

Nate's class is having something called economy day today. The kids have been earning "cub cash" in class this year and economy day allows them the opportunity to spend the money they have earned. Each child sets up a store and sells a product. Nate has been super excited about this project.

After going through ideas for a product to sell Nathan decided on homemade cinnamon rolls. Denise ran out and got the ingredients yesterday and even picked up individual sized containers to put the cinnamon rolls in so they would like they were being sold from a "real" store. Everything was out and ready so that as soon as Nate got home from school he could start making them.

He is quite the baker...he worked hard and did a great job on the rolls

Denise put the rolls in the oven and we were set. The buzzer went off and the rolls were set out to cool - end of story! Oh no...Denise read the wrong directions and cooked the rolls with convection oven time. Denise and Nate started frosting the rolls and they all collapsed because they were still super doughy inside. 40 Rolls down the drain, well kind of...the kids and Derek have been eating the doughy ones.

Denise had to start dinner at that point and get ready for an enrichment meeting at church. After enrichment Denise cranked out a new batch of rolls (while murmuring under her breath) and had them packaged and ready for Nate to take to school this morning.

Nate was excited for this morning. He had to make a sign for today and he was excited with the name he came up with for his rolls "synonym rolls" He is charging two dollars and throwing in a free drink with every purchase.

I'll post a few more pictures in the next post of the final outcome.