Tabernacle Soup

What is "tabernacle soup" you might be asking yourself?  I found out just what that concoction is this afternoon.  I was in my little get dinner done bubble, very focused on the task at hand, when Cora came down and got a fork out of the drawer.  "What are you doing Cora?"  "I'm making tabernacle soup and I need to mix it up."  A quizzical look from Mother is all she got until...Later that same afternoon (10 min tops) Jodi comes running in the kitchen, "Mom Cora is in trouble she is making a mess and you need to come right now!"  My mom sense must be turned off today because I was still thinking Okay Okay I'm coming.  Here's Jodi's response, "Mom run I'm right behind you."  Okay I'll move a bit faster.  Here is what I find: 2 little people and an orange mass taking over the bathroom floor.  Its bubbling out over the cottage cheese container and spreading towards the carpet.  Come to find out "tabernacle soup" is an entire box of baking soda, an entire container of Tang, vinegar and water -all mixed thoroughly with a fork.  No wonder it was bubbling and expanding over the floor.  Its a recipe using all the cleaning supplies Mom keeps under the bathroom sink and at least it didn't smell bad.  To Cora's benefit she had no idea what that mixture would do.  I started smiling after the mess was mostly cleaned up.  I called Eric from our room, "Where were you on this one pal?"  He was doing homework.  Okay I'll give it to him.  Then I had to fess up that Cora just came down to get a fork for creating her concoction.  He said, "Haven't you ever read Calvin and Hobbes?  You just let her go back upstairs?"  The laughter started.  Hope it has for you too.  Happy parenting!