Kitchen Help

Monday dawned with a request for a “big breakfast” from my husband.

He was off of work for Columbus Day and wanted to enjoy the morning with all the fixings of a family breakfast.

On the menu was grits (we ARE from the South), scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast (the original request was for biscuits but toast had to be substituted when I realized I was out of butter…I know, the horror).

EA was eager to help in the kitchen and I was happy to have her help.

She helped beat the eggs before I scrambled them.

And then I assigned her the task of making toast.

This assignment wielded two lessons.

The first was a math lesson as I asked her, “If there are five of us eating breakfast and we each want two pieces of toast, how much bread should we take out?”

She thought…. “two, two, two, two, and two”.

And then I helped her out by holding up five fingers (fingers are God’s gift to help us do math).

She counted two on each of my fingers before proclaiming her answer, “TEN!”

We ten out ten pieces of whole wheat bread and placed them on a baking sheet.

Then came the homemaking lesson when I taught her how to butter bread without putting too little or too much butter on before spreading it out.

It was a joy to have my little girl join me in the kitchen to provide a breakfast for our family.

Do you accept kitchen help from your little ones?

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