On a personal note here, my daughter graduated from high school and is ready to leave home for college in two weeks. Have we prepared her for life? Is she ready to fly? We’ve done our best and she’s a great kid. Our roles as her parents are changing – now we’re more advisors (when asked) and providers of unconditional love.
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I love that photo of your toddler daughter.
Cooking for kids is always a good time. I can still remember making peanut butter cookies for my sister’s twin grandkids and having them “help me.” They loved to smash the cookie dough with the forks to make the criss-cross pattern. It didn’t matter that they both weren’t coordinated enough to get the fork pattern in the middle of the cookie. So, we had creative cookies.
When the cookies came out of the oven, both of them would teleport away from their Pokemon cards and land on the chairs at the end of the kitchen counter.
We had a tradition. I would slide two hot cookies off the cookie sheet and they would catch them and start eating them, warm and soft. I loved the way their eyes would light up with anticipation and their ear-to-ear smiles.
My sister thought we were crazy, but when she presented her tidy plate of cookies arranged so neatly, both of them would eat them, but they would whisper to me that they missed the “hot cookie slide.”
Now that they are in high school, I still hear about my peanut butter cookie adventures with them. It’s the real, but little, things that kids keep in their memories.
Pat
Hi Pat,
What a lovely picture you paint with your words! And what a special time with your sister’s grandkids. You’re never sure what they will remember about their childhood and it’s nice to know they cherish this particular memory, isn’t it?
Thanks for sharing.
Peggy