A Rule worth following

Cooking is always better with help. Even if that "help" is not all the helpful and really they just sort of get in the way, it doesn't matter. Cooking is better with help.

It's hard to trust a small being in the kitchen. It's hard to relax and not think that at any moment they are going to loose a finger or maybe even burn the house down but here's what you really need to remember.

You can still live a long and happy life with nine maybe even less fingers, and a house is just a house filled with stuff you can live without, but the memories your kids will have from helping you cook will last a lifetime.....I promise!

Before anyone write me an angry letter let me clarify. I'm not saying hand your two year old a butcher knife and say okay I'll see you when dinners done, but I AM saying that it won't kill anyone to let your two year old help make the salad. Kids are so much more capable that we adults would like to believe.