“Little Benny was watching his mother bake cookies. He stood there for a long time, then said, 'Mama, why don’t you ask me something?' 'What should I ask you, in mitske drinen?' 'You could ask me, "You want a cookie, Benny?"’” (NJY)

"When Mom was busy and she was very involved in something, she said she was in mitske derinnen ('in the middle of things')." (Memories of a Vanished Time: A Tribute to My Mother and Father by Robert Blumenfeld)