January 18, 2014

Adela, We spend a lot of time in the kitchen together, something I truly love to do with you. And you love it too. We bake and we cook. And you do whatever non-knife related jobs I can come up with. You dump the spices and snap the ends of beans. You count out pieces and cups. You stir. You have your own little apron, my kitchen buddy. I hope that these are memories that you will have forever, that you will say a love of cooking is something you got from me. This is another example of something I gained by you getting older. We worry about what we’re going to miss as our kids grow, but there is always something new and wonderful to replace the stages you outgrow.

Josiah, you like the kitchen too, but for another reason. You’re obsessed with the spice cabinet and emptying it’s contents.