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The moms in my twins club meet one evening a month and there's usually a speaker. This month, we had a chef from Sticky Fingers Cooking come to talk about how to get kids inspired to make healthy choices when eating, and getting them in the kitchen to help with meal preparation. One of her suggestions was having the kids take turns making the dinner salad each night, and another suggestion was having kids use a lettuce knife to practice cutting skills.
In an ideal world, I'd have my kids in the kitchen every night to help me with dinner. The girls love pulling chairs up to the island to help with whatever they can get their hands on. But in reality, 5:00 is the witching hour and all I want is a few moments to myself while I throw something together for my family to eat. This weekend, though, with Dad home and focusing his attention on Emily and Elizabeth, I invited Addie to pull up a chair and make the dinner salad. She put the lettuce, carrots, and celery in the bowl and then cut up the avocado to put on top!
She was ecstatic, thrilled, glowing. She made the salad and then beamed as she brought it over to the table and immediately began serving it up to all of us. Throughout the meal, she reminded all of us that she had made the salad, and we all had many compliments for the chef. The most exciting thing for me - she ATE her salad! And so did Emily. Success!
