An Unexpected Teaching Moment

"General Conference Treats" are a tradition from growing up. We always had them as part of breakfast on General Conference morning. They are made by dipping a large (or several small) marshmallows in melted butter, rolling them in cinnamon and sugar, and wrapping them in a refrigerator biscuit that has been flattened out. You then dip the "squished end" in butter, put it in a muffin tin and bake them. The miracle is that when you pull them out of the oven, the biscuit is still intact and the marshmallow is gone. All that is left behind is its gooey sweetness.

When conference and Easter coincided, we would draw a correlation to Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection and that greatest of all miracles: when people went to visit Jesus's body in the tomb he wasn't there -- He is risen.

Matthew has really been learning the Easter story this year so I had him help me make the treats and we talked all about it before we put them in the oven. Then when we pulled them out of the oven this is what we got!

I used "Grands" biscuits this year and that is all I can figure to explain the difference! What a disappointment that the marshmallows didn't disappear. What do you do once your best object lesson is ruined? Change the lesson to fit the object -- I guess.

Over breakfast I told the kids the story of Jonah and the whale and how after three days in the belly of a whale he was spewed out onto dry land. It seemed more fitting. Then we gobbled up Jonahs and the whales.