Cooking

I have a confession to make. I've started to take advantage of Maree's obsession with food. I let her make breakfast yesterday morning for her, Tom, and Leanna. She said her Mom lets her make eggs, so I let her make eggs and I told her how to make bacon. Leanna said she wanted the kind of eggs that come with toast. (She meant scrambled eggs on top of toast) She likes to cook, and personally I hate the smell of eggs cooking! So it seemed like a good idea. She had fun and Tom didn't have to wait for me to finish feeding the baby before making his food, or even have to (the horror!) hold the baby while I made it. Everyone seemed happy with the results.

I let her make pork chops the last time she was over. I stood right by her and talked her through it(even let her add too much egg because she thought it needed more, so she'd learn for next time). It's a little thing, not very complicated, but she bragged that she'd made dinner! And it was well worth it cause Tom even came and sat at the table with us-and he never does that! (You'd think with the 50 million commercials about the importance of the family table on the TVland channel that he watches all the time-he'd do it at least semi-regularly!) I know Korinna lets her do some stuff and knows that Maree loves to pretend to cook and watches the food channel-but I still worry that Korinna might get upset that I have her making food. You never know what might set her off, you know? Sometimes it's not so easy to be in charge of a child not your own.