Winter Breakfast

Dear Readers:
Today´s story is inspired by the 2019 Creative Challenge posted on the Sylvanian Families Collector Comunity forum.
The second challenge´s theme is "Winter Breakfast" which is closely related to the first challenge "Snow Day".

It was a cold Saturday morning in Sweet Berry Valley. 
Agatha made some coffee and poured herself a cup.

She was feeling especially hungry so she also poured herself a bowl of cereal.
She enjoys having a quiet breakfast before the kids get up.

She opened the fridge to get some milk but suddendly she remembered there wasn´t any left .

Last evening,Oscar, accidentally, spilled the jar of milk and it was too late to go to the supermarket.

Then, she looked outside in the hope of finding a bottle of milk at her doorstep but obviously bad weather made milk delivery impossible for Hornbull Buttercup.

Agatha went to the living room where Rupert was about to start a fire in the fireplace.
"We ran out of milk for our cereal Rupert and we haven´t got any bread either.
I know it´s freezing cold but would you mind going to the supermarket to grab something for breakfast? There´s plenty of fruit at home so we just need some milk and bread".

Rupert didn´t mind it at all.The supermarket was close to their home and he felt like going for a brisk walk in the morning. Freddie offered to go with his father.
"If you want to go outside you have to wrap  yourself up properly, the last thing we need is for you to catch a cold" Agatha said while she rolled a scarf around Freddie´s neck".

"Have a banana. You´ll need some energy to walk in this weather". 

Meanwhile, upstairs, Maria and Oscar had just gotten out of bed. "Snow! " Oscar shouted with joy when he looked through the window.

Oscar ran to kiss his mum good morning and to tell her about the snowfall that had blanketed the village.

Then, he sat down at the kitchen table ready for breakfast. Agatha´s bowl was still on the table and Oscar asked for some milk for his cereal.

"There´s no milk, Oscar. You spilled it all last evening .Dad and Freddie went to the supermarket to buy some more so we´ll have to wait until they´re back to eat our breakfast.

"MUM, I know!. We can make pancakes for breakfast" Maria exclaimed excited at the idea of eating some light and fluffy pancakes topped with a big dollop of whipped cream.

"Maria..., we need milk and eggs for the batter and we haven´t got any. We can´t make pancakes today." Agatha explained to her daughter.

Maria opened the cupboard underneath the sink.
"Let me see...It must be here somewhere..." She mumbled while searching the cupboard
"What are you looking for,Maria?" Agatha was curious to know.

"Ta-dah! Pancake mix, mum!. Just add water!. I bought it once to make pancakes to treat my friends to tea but you baked a cake for us so I left it in the cupboard. Shall we make some? Please mum!" Both Maria and Oscar begged Agatha..

  
Sooner said than done, Maria offered herself to whip some cream.

Agatha and Oscar got down to making the pancakes.

When the cream was whipped, Maria made some orange juice.

The pancakes were turning out really well and Agatha was getting the hang of tossing them up in the air and catching them again. 

Oscar´s little tummy was grumbling and Agatha was hungry too. Rupert and Freddie should be back soon.

Shortly after, Rupert and Freddie got home. The smell in the kitchen was enticing and mouthwatering.
" There was just soymilk left. Hornbull couldn´t deliver milk due to the snow and there was no bread either. Cristopher Appleblossom is sick  in bed with the flu so he didn´t bake any bread. We bought soymilk, eggs and a packet of biscuits but I´d rather have some pancakes instead and leave the soymilk and cereal for tomorrow" Rupert said looking at the breakfast table.

Oscar was the first one to climb to his high chair. He couldn´t wait any longer to start munching on his pancakes.

The rest of the family sat down around the table and they chose their favourite topping for their pancakes.

A pile of fresh berries for Agatha and  just a layer of cream and strawberries for Rupert.

Maria likes hers topped with plenty of whipped cream and strawberries.

A dollop of cream for Freddie and lots of chocolate sauce for little Oscar.

"No more chocolate Oscar or you´ll have a tummy-ache". Agatha warned him.

There was nothing quite like some delicious pancakes for a special weekend breakfast treat followed by a lovely walk in the soft and fluffy snow. A perfect start to a winter weekend for The Buckleys.

This story is my contribution to the second challenge´s theme "Winter breakfast". A perfect excuse to open the "Homemade Pancake Set" that I had bought ages ago that was still boxed. 

For this story I made the tablecloth

for The Buckleys´ kitchen table following the tutorial you can find in Slydale Hollow blog. (Thanks Chill!)

I made the cream for the bowl and for Freddie´s pancake using soft modelling clay.

I made some strawberries too.

I also made the plastic bag for the packet of cereal. I cut a small piece of plastic out of a real cereal bag and I sealed the borders with a hot glue gun (without glue).I crushed some cereal and put them in the bag.

Finally, a picture of my winter weekend breakfast I had last Sunday.

Hugs!

Vera The Mouse by Marjolein Bastin