Making cookies with children really requires the arms of an octopus and the patience of Job. I have neither.
"No you can't sample the eggs, butter and sugar and you can't lick off the spatula yet either. We just started making the cookies."
"Wait, don't stick your hands in the mixer. If you do, you won't have any hands."
"Two kids can't both stand on the same stool in front of the mixing bowl."
Sometimes a few eggs are the casualty. Usually lots of flour or oatmeal is littering the floor. Everytime the dough has to be sampled. But cooking is a good skill and everyone, in my opinion should know how to make cookies at the very least.
By the time the cookies are done (sometimes the job isn't finished), Anneka is no longer content where she is and the sticky, crusty dishes are piled up, the counters are smeared and slopped. Give me two days or so and I'll get the mess cleaned up.
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hmmm... yeah, so baking/cooking with "help" with my kids is so much more work... but i'm excited for them to be so familiar with cooking when they get older. i dish out the reminders to steer clear of the mixer when it's on, too, several times, when we're cooking! they know it's wrong, but sometimes i can see that look in their eyes, like they might just go for it anyway!
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