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A little while back, Miles came home from church and said that he wanted to make doughnuts.  I told him that we didn't have the materials or machine (fryer) to make doughnuts.  I also have my own selfish reasons for not wanting to fry ANYTHING in the house.  I have a wallpapered house.  Frying in the house over time leaves a film on your walls and ceiling. No matter how clean you are.  Anyway, Chris suggests that we go see the doughnut machine.  Miles had already had a doughnut at church. (Another reason I didn't want to make any that day.)  So I suggested that we would go see the doughnut machine if he was good all week at school.  He has always been good at school, so it was a sure field trip.  Miles is not good at delayed gratification, so it's something that I am working on with him.  We got out the calendar, drew schools on it for the days he would be going to school and a doughnut on the day that we would go to see the "doughnut machine."  Each day when he woke up that week we marked a day off on the calendar.  We counted the days until "Doughnut Machine Day!"  When we got to the following Saturday.....HE SLEPT IN!!!  When he did get up and get going we went straight to "Doughnut Machine Day!"  My usually calm and patient child in the car asked if we were there yet on the 15 minute drive at least 4 times.  We talked about what the sign would look like, we talked about the other buildings around it.

Finally... we arrived at the Krispy Kreme.

For those of you who have never been their machine that makes the doughnuts is behind plexy with descriptions written on it that tells about the process.  Miles walked in and...stared.

He stopped at each stage of the process and told us about what was happening.  It was magical.

 I don't think he would have had this much fun at Disney world!

After we had thoroughly dissected the machine with our eyes, we had a hot, fresh, crispy doughnut right off the line.  YUM!!    

The day was a success! ! We had a BLAST!  I think sometimes we forget to make the small things special.  Yes we could have just jumped in the car and went to get doughnuts, but "good things come to those who wait."  Sometimes even something BETTER!