Cooking with youngsters
One of our family hobbies that we do together is cooking. It is what we love doing among, as of late, building legos. I decided to make my girls waffles this morning as Natalie said to me the other day, "we always have cereal for breakfast.'' Meaning it was probably two days in a row. I mix it up by usually doing eggs & toast, steel cut oatmeal, cereal, and then every now in then spice it up with something special or different. Back to this morning, I had the girls in the kitchen on stools next to me taking turns dumping ingredients into the bowls. I had two extra large eggs in the fridge left when the recipe called for three. I felt it down in me...that Emily was going to drop one of those eggs and sure enough it happened. And did I react? Yes! "Emily!" You can hear it now, can't you? I did. #Parent fail. I got caught up in the motions. I made things right and then they both left to go play with their blocks. Sigh. It made me think, do I encourage them t
