A recipe for disaster...

The first time  I found a crayon in the dryer I nearly had a melt down. With toddlers in the house all sorts of things end up in the washing machine & dryer; crayons- melt, chalk- dusts, little men- lose the paint off their smiles and dimes make a hell of a noise. Today I found a tightly folded piece of paper, a recipe for something. Paper can some times be the worst, it shreds and scatters and I am left picking tiny pieces of paper from all of our clothes!  Yuck, more work on laundry day.

Kitchen Jobs

painting brute force
tongs anyone?

I have actively been looking for jobs that the babies can do in the kitchen while I am cooking. Such as squeezing lemons, adding salt and pepper, brushing bread with oil etc. Even if seems a little mundane and not very exciting to me, tearing bread for croutons is a new adventure for them. However with this new found independence comes consequences for me..... olive oil to lemon juice, spills happen, so I brace myself to wipe up more, do more dishes and (what I dread most) more laundry.

Last nights dinner,

Potato & Pear soup with crusty croutons.