Homemaker In Training

Here are some pictures from this weekend.  My daughter insisted on washing the dishes and helping with dinner.  We do have a dishwasher but a lot of our dishes need to be hand washed.  Doing the dishes is something I have always done and haven't thought about handing the responsibility to my kids yet, but when my daughter begged to help I wasn't going to say no. 

On Saturday she helped prepare a salad while I cooked the chicken.  She even peeled the cucumber and did an amazing job.  I cut the slices because I'm not ready for the seven year old to handle a sharp knife and that will come in time. 

On Sunday I decided to make my homemade tomato sauce and meatballs.  I even added some sausage to it.  My daughter, again, wanted to help.  I mixed up all the ingredients and she helped me roll the meat into balls.  She complained about the texture of the raw meat but kept on going.  I'm so proud of her and they turned out super delicious.

I seemed to have added these last two pictures backwards.  This was me showing her how to roll the meat and the top one was the final product.  It was so good.  My mother taught me how to make meatballs and now it was my turn to pass it on to my girl. 

As we were preparing the meatballs I told her she was going to make some man very happy one day.  She said she doesn't want to get married and will just cook for me and Daddy.  Yeah, we'll see if she feels the same way in 10 years.  😄

I promised my son that he could help me cook next weekend and of course I want him to take on doing the dishes as well.  Boys should learn too, right?!