F A I L

Have you heard of FAIL standing for First Attempt In Learning?

Yesterday I decided I wanted to make these bready type things we had been having on holidays and so I spent ages online looking at recipes and how to make them, and watching the steps – and then I set out to make them.

Looking back I should have waited, but I didn’t want to wait and lose my motivation!! But I was in the middle of trying to cook a roast dinner, I was doing the 6000 piles of laundry I came home with, we had different visitors arriving.. you know, a busy house with lots of moving parts – not the best time to be trying something new, and that the recipe said wasn’t an easy one to master!

Anyways, I made the dough, I did all the steps, I was very very pleased with myself for making all these individual little parcels, going through all these little steps – and I was excited to try them. So I was cleaning up, while letting the little parcels sit, this is about an hour after starting to knead the dough… and then I found the sachets of yeast unopened on the counter! Which means there was no yeast in the dough. (Where’s the palm to face emoji lol).. duh…

I was so cross with myself – but my 15yr old turned around and said, well it was your first attempt in learning… and it was a great reminder in the moment. Yes, it was a fail lol, but it was me trying it, and as my eldest said that I should be happy I had wanted to make them and I did try as opposed to sitting on the couch for an hour watching tv… which was true, I had to take the pride out of the result, and put it in to the action I took. I could have just happily thought about making them someday, and not done anything about it. But instead I found a recipe and I tried it. And now for next time I have even more of an idea what I’m doing.

We did try fry up some of the little parcels, and some of the kids (who hadn’t tried the real original ones) thought they were ok and edible, but myself and my husband who were excited about the genuine ones were not at all impressed!!! But my 15 year old changed his FAIL to a SAIL – and said it was a successful attempt in learning!

So I took a few lessons from this, first double check you’ve used all the ingredients and second a great reminder that the win is in taking action, not the results you get!

Oh, and then the roast dinner took over 4 hours to cook because half way through we realised the oven is broken and not heating, the food wasn’t cooked when it should have been almost ready, and even after those four hours cooking, the roast vegetables were still hard… so we just had to laugh at ourselves, or me at myself, when it came to eating the dinner, hours later than planned and still not the way I wanted it to be haha