This is not the way I wanted to start off my first week of Kids in the Kitchen! I had great intentions of having the kids help me out with a great recipe and posting it here with lots of pictures. Real life happened, though, and I developed a sinus infection that makes me dizzy when I stand. We ended up eating out two nights and leftovers another night. Buddy really helped me out, though. He served the other two kids breakfast for dinner and breakfast the next morning without my help. It’s really nice as the kids get older and they can help themselves and others in the kitchen. It’s not something I want to do to take advantage of my son on a regular basis, but it was so nice that he was able to pull out a stool, get down the cereal and bowls and to be able to feed everyone by himself. Not only did it help me, but it helped his self-esteem and made him proud that he could help me out.
As you can see, these posts won’t always be a recipe or be about cooking. Next week, though, I’d really like to share a cute recipe with you. Hopefully I can get that going this weekend so that it’s not Friday morning and I’m scrambling again! Do you have a cute kid’s recipe or story about your kids helping you in the kitchen? How about grocery shopping?
I would love for you to join me and my co-hosts, Melinda at Look What Mom Found…and Dad too! and Sara at Sensibly Sara, each week linking up a post, new or old, that feature the theme Kids in the Kitchen. It doesn’t matter what you are doing as long as you are doing it together and enjoying it and learning something.
- preparing healthy snacks
- having a tea party
- counting skills with m&ms
- pouring from measuring cups
- discovering a local restaurant that your kids love
- creating new family friendly recipes
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I am so sorry you’ve been dealing with a sinus infection. I get them often but once I had it where it put me down for about a week. They tried me on 3 meds before getting it to break and clear up. I too was dizzy and couldn’t bend at all and the pressure was horrific! Said it was one of the worse they had seen when x-rays were done. But what a big guy you have there to help you out like that. I’m proud of him for helping his Mommy out like he did.
What a great helper!!
you’re right on top of what I saw #kidsinthekitchen being. it ISN’T all about cooking and eating but kids being helpful too. hope you feel better1
I love working in the kitchen with my boys! I’m so sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, and I hope you get to feeling better quickly. I wanted to stop by to Congratulate you on having been chosen as one of the Shaklee 180 Bloggers—-Woot! I look forward to following you on this journey! I had great success as one of the last bloggers taking part in this program. 🙂
My kids are older now and rarely choose to work in the kitchen anymore. But this was fun for me to remember all the memories we made in the kitchen, thanks!