March 8 was the international holiday called: "Woman's Day". Here in a composition from Novosibirsk are the attempts of a father and son to make the day special.
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Women's DayI like all holidays, especially women's day. My mother cooks well and we have all tasty things imaginable at holidays. But this time we had a little problem. My mother is a nurse at the hospital and works shifts. And on the 8th of March she had to work until noon! It's a bad idea to leave mother without holiday. So we decided with father to prepare everything ourselves and made a surprise for mother. When mother left to work early in the morning, we started to realize our plan. We worked out very simple but useful one: to bake a wonderful cake and to clean the flat. We started with a cake. The recipe book gives you a lot of opportunities to find a quick, but tasty solution. But it turned out that we didn't have all products needed. Dad took the recipe and went to the shop, but returned very quickly: he didn't know where the food shop was. I decided to help and went with him. At the shop the strangest things started: they didn't want to sell us some products of quantity we needed. For example it's written "one spoon of soda", but they told we had to buy the whole packet! Shops are rather strange nowadays, you know. Products, however, successfully bought, we returned home and started cake making. We didn't know how to measure all these grams, but dad told "The more the better and the happier mother will be!". So we took a large basin and mixed everything up. Dad soon became white from flour and I laughed a lot. But he told I wasn't better looking. By the time pastry and cream were ready, all the kitchen was in white pieces of pastry. Even the ceiling. But it was nothing in comparison with a great thing we were doing! We didn't like the idea to divide the pastry into little thin cakes and bake separately. It was wiser to bake the whole thing and then to divide it. We put the cake into oven and went to clean the living room. It wasn't so easy as you may think. We searched our household manuals and couldn't find information on how to clean the room. But we saw how mum did it and I told dad not to worry. "We must clean the dust and wash the floor. That's all." I didn't know only what to do first: to clean the dust or floor. But it really wasn't important. We decided not to disturb the dust on the high wardrobe. I don't understand why mum does it. If nobody sees this dust, it's not the dust, is it? We had a bit of a problem with cupboard. Several vases were broken after our attempt to clean the dust there. But dad tried to distribute the left vases rarely, hoping that mum wouldn't notice it. We were so deep into cleaning that forgot about the cake. Only a strange smell of something burning made us to turn the thoughts to the kitchen. When we took it out it was completely burnt! We pulled it out (not an easy and pleasant task), it was like something that consisted of black, pieces. But we were not upset at all. Now it was no need to divide it into little cakes and put cream on every piece separately. It saved us time! We just poured cream in the basin and put a cake on a large dish. Dad called it "Anthill " I remarked that black spots resembled something chocolate like. Dad agreed with me. We also fried potatoes. Strange thing: it turned out later; we should have put oil on it first. Next time we will take it into consideration. Mother came at noon. With a large cake. We couldn't eat ours. But it was only because we put more soda than needed. Mum explained that a kilo was too much. In general, holiday was very good! As mum prepared all the food quickly. But she was very happy to see all our attempts. |