A bagel...

We cannot get out the door in the morning without a bagel. If Madi can't have pancakes and sausage for breakfast, she wants her bagel. I just don't have time in the mornings to fix pancakes and sausage, so a bagel has to work. Madi loves them, and she likes them best when her dad makes them. Every morning this week, she has had a bagel. We start with a whole wheat bagel and place it in the toaster. When it's done toasting we add butter and strawberry jam. I say we because Madi helps push down the bagel in the toaster and she helps spread the jam. We then cut it in half and put it in a sandwich bag. The sandwich bag is a must, because if I let her start eating it before we get her dressed or out the door, it takes three times as long to do anything. Madi is the slowest eater. Besides that, we would have a mess before we even got the day started. Madi likes to carry the bag with the bagel and that makes Gabe mad. He wants a treat too and lets you know that all the way to the sitters. You see, he likes bagels too.