Mother’s Day means two main traditions around our house: 1) Dad makes biscuits for breakfast, and 2) Dad tries a brand new recipe for dinner. Which usually leads to a third: Dad makes a huge mess in the kitchen.

I enjoy cooking. But I don’t do it often enough to where I really know the arrangement of things in the kitchen. I’m always looking for things, which usually leads to a fair amount of stress, as I’m often supposed to be adding the ingredient I’m looking for right now!

So when we ran out of baking powder mid-way into making biscuit dough it should have been a stressful moment. But not this time. While I may not know the layout of my wife’s kitchen cupboards, I DO know where our food storage is. I immediately knew to check the box on top of the partial wall along one side of the kitchen. The one labeled “Baking Powder”, where we keep extra cans of baking powder (amazing how that works). But we were out there, too.

Not to worry. I know my wife would not leave us short on baking powder. She’s too good a shopper for that. She’d have stocked up as soon as she knew we were running low. She just hadn’t gotten as far as putting them in the box atop the wall yet. So where else would she put them? Downstairs storage closet, of course. Easily found. Probably avoided.

And that’s how food storage saved Mother’s Day (or at least Daddy’s hide).