Grandma's Cornbread Dressing

Robby insists on making his grandmother's cornbread dressing every Thanksgiving and Christmas and a few other times throughout the winter. This year he had the girls help him:

Robby and I are still debating what kind of vent hood we will have over the stove, so for now there is no vent hood.

Cucumber Salad

Every time I am in the kitchen the girls want to help me. So, I have decided to try to teach them actual skills so they can become actually helpful. Robby has been growing cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers. We have had a few tomatoes, one pepper, and tons of cucumbers. So, we eat cucumber salad almost every night. Using a non-sharp knife, we taught the girls how to cut cucumbers into small pieces:

It took Catherine a good thirty minutes to cut up one cucumber. But, that gave me time to clean the kitchen, make the rest of dinner and set the table while she was occupied. It is so much easier to just do the task then teach a toddler how to do it. But, I have to constantly remind myself that the girls will never learn these tasks if I do not let them do it. I pray for patience every day as they take forever to complete normal household chores at a snail's pace.

I only gave Sabrina a few pieces to cut, which she did. Then, she ate the pieces she cut. So, her contribution to the salad was limited. Alright, non-existent. But, she gained some knife skills and ate a few pieces of a vegetable!