The Apprentice Becomes the Master

The Apprentice Becomes the Master

If you're just tuning in for the first time then allow me to introduce you to little miss and little bloke my two litte ones. If you have missed our kitchen adventures cooking is something little miss and I have done since the day she was born (me a little longer but it doesn't really count). Little Miss helps me with all the cooking and she has even started helping with the cleaning up which is fantastic and lets face it, not the job anyone really likes so if we can get help it is much welcomed.

Cooking has been my go to thing with little miss as it includes a large number of other life skills that are vital. To cook you need to be able to understand measurements which includes maths, read what ingredients are, weigh things. It's a form of chemestry so you learn what proteins bond together well and what ones dont, builds hand eye coordination (probably not a good place to have poor coordination especially with a sharp knife!). most importantly you need to be able to follow instructions until you remember something well enough to do it on your own.

For little Miss French toast is that recipe she now knows off by heart and it is one of her favourite morning breakfasts and quite often her go to every Sunday morning. Although we are now approaching holiday period so we have some time off work and we get to spend a little more time together doing what we love, cooking.

However, we have had someone new join us in the kitchen recently, Little bloke! he has become a lot more active and aware of his surroundings and is now as each day passes becoming more engaging and more independent. It is such a magical and special thing to see happen. It is one thing COVID has provided me with, more time with my family and I see it as a gift. One that with all the challenges and barriers that came with it was worth it as it provided me an insight into what was and is important.

My life previously was getting up at 6am and not getting back home until late at night often missing out on seeing Little Miss in the first two years, I was just someone who was there on the weekends. I can't explain it but it has completely changed the family dinamics at home where I have been taking more of the primary carer role as my wife embarks on her journey in her career (hurry up and make a few million so I can retire early and stay home full time lol).

I've been making a few movies for @Foodiesbeehive and little miss asked to have her own made but I thought it was a lot more fitting in @homeedders to showcase her skills and development. Little Miss at 5 years old making French toast with her brother closely by her side waiting eagerly to do the same. I once taught her how to cook and now she teaches her brother, it is an odd feeling being on this side of the bench.