Sunday Mornings...

This summer I started regularly cooking with Mason on Sunday mornings. Sunday mornings in our home are historically pancake mornings. Pancakes are the perfect food for kids to help cook. There are plenty of ingredients to add. There's lots of measuring, pouring, and stirring. It's good busy work. Inevitably, the time will come to actually cook the pancakes on the griddle and Mason will cry, "Mommy! I want to cook more! I want to cook more! More cooking, Mommy! More!". That's when dump flour, water, egg yolks, raisins, food coloring... whatever!... into a bowl and let him stir to his heart's content. Because, while there are alot of great lessons that a kid can learn from cooking (besides how to do something other than boil water when he gets to college), the most importan thing that we get from cooking on Sunday mornings is SILENCE. This is Mommy's sneaky little way to let Daddy get a little shut eye on Sunday morning!