So I'm pretty sure I told you last time that the kids have been on spring break this week. In fact, today is their last day of spring break craziness. :P I'd tell you that they're sad, but they're not. They are itching to get back to school and Girl Scouts and all the other fun stuff they have going on. And secretly, I'm kinda glad to have them headed back too. I'm going to miss being able to sleep in, but I will be happy to have a quiet house again for a few more months until summer break. (It makes getting my homework done a little easier).
Anyway! Back to spring break. We have a rule in our house - during breaks from school they have to help out a little more around here. No sitting around and being couch potatoes for them. And one of the things they have to do is help me cook. I typically plan out meals about a week in advance so they each have to pick one meal and that's their night to help me dice and chop and stir and all that. It's great for teaching them early to learn basic cooking skills (plus a little math thrown in), but the big bonus is that it's less work for me. Ha! :)
Usually, as in like every single time, Hayden tries to cash in on our "Free Night". That's our night to order pizza, or go out, have sandwiches, or whatever. That's him trying to get out of helping...smart kid that he is. Lol Kierstin almost always picks something involving chopping veggies because (now that she's allowed) that's her favorite thing to do. Makenzie on the other hand....ahh, Makenzie. She is the one who will pick any dinner where she gets to bread chicken or stir pasta. (She loves to stir! And to use bread crumbs and eggs!)
So a few days ago I made Chicken Piccatta for dinner and my sweet little Kenzie-bug was just jumping up and down (literally) waiting to come help me. It was her night in the kitchen and she was excited!! I helped her get scrubbed and apron-ed and set her up with everything she needed and left the kitchen for a minute (big mistake, by the way) to go grab some music only to be called back about 10 seconds later by a tiny little voice yelling, "Hey mooooommmm, come here! Come look what I did!" I of course was a little scared. Cooking with my youngest can be...well....interesting sometimes. (Scary at other times.)
I walked into the kitchen to this.....
Makenzie: "Look...my hands have eyes" (((insert her maniacal laughter here)))
Yes. That is my daughter holding egg yolks so that her hands can have "eyeballs". And when asked why in the world she would decide to pick those up, she answered as only Makenzie would. "Because I wanted to look at myself. Duh." (That's my daughter, folks.) And now I've been left wondering if that's really why she likes to use the eggs so much. I think she's been secretly trying to figure out how to pick them up without breaking them.
Ah, but that's all for now. I'm off to enjoy the rest of my Sunday. (Which really means, I need to go fold laundry and do some dishes. Boo on that!) I hope you're having a wonderful weekend!!
Much love! <3
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