the helpers.
One of the best parts about Thanksgiving is the amount of help you can get from younger kids.
There are so many little jobs to be done that can be accomplished in about 5 minutes flat. This is good for kids that have more important things to do like: figure out how to skate down the stairs.
Pie making is perfect place to get kids and fmilyn members involved.
They can:
Roll out the crust
Squeeze lemons
Cut strawberries
Mix whipped cream
Sift flour
Measure sugar
Pour pumpkin filling
Cut cinnamon rolls
Even the people on the way out the door, to play the annual Turkey Bowl game of touch football, can get in on the action of pie making! Breaking the job up into tiny pieces makes it more likely for you to have help and to have more fun!
Remember: The purpose of the task is to strengthen the relationship.
And this doesn’t just go for Thanksgiving day. 🙂
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4 Comments
oh this is so fun!!! i love your lifestyle type shots Davina and so lovely to get a glimpse into your life this way!! Some days i’m a bit of a control freak in the kitchen, haha, and Liana is often easily distracted, only coming back to lick the spoon, but we do have fun baking!
Being Australian, we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here so i cant really say what my favorite part of it is, but i hope one day to have a Thanksgiving and white christmas in US and experience it all… we spend christmas swimming in the pool, so snow would be so very cool!!! just like in the movies 🙂
Swimming at Christmas time sounds wonderful. We could trade one year! 🙂 My kids definitely get distracted in the kitchen, too. One will come out and help with the crust and then lose interest and then another will be excited about the strawberry filling and want to only help with that part. It’s the same way with a lot of the cooking and baking we do…getting to work together is the best part. Even if it’s just in little snippets. I think it’s wonderful that you and Liana are in the kitchen together!
Jay is much better at inviting the kids to participate in cooking than I am. I need to work on that. Recently Natalie has been doing some baking, and it’s fun to see how much she is learning and enjoying the process, and of course, the rewards. 🙂
I love the storytelling in your photos!! Our favorite part of Thanksgiving was everyone gathered at the table, talking, laughing and carrying on. Then on to playing games…euchre, golf (another card game), SongPop-ing during the card games with each other that had their devices). It was like one loud and chaotic hug! 😀