peach pie

After years of cooking with little ones whose "help" often amounted to bigger messes and inconvenient spills and long, deep breaths for the mommy I am definitely seeing the bright light at the end of the tunnel!

No, that's not the way to put it.  I do love cooking with little helpers - but it's also nice to see what cooking with bigger helpers is like :)

Tonight a local friend joined us for dinner and afterwards the two of us baked a peach pie.  Julianna was FIRED UP about helping.  We sat around our big kitchen table - I peeled peaches, our friend removed the pits and cut the peach into large chunks, and Julianna finished it up by cutting into smaller pieces.  She was such a diligent worker (her own table knife and cutting board, sitting in the chair next to me).

This is the second time in just a few weeks that after baking with her I thought, "wow, she really did make the work go quicker - when did she become such a helpful little helper?"  It won't be long until she's making peach pie on her own (as she confidently declared to our friend this evening!)

Unfortunately, bedtime came before the oven timer buzzed, but I promised her I'd take photos of the uncut pie and she could eat her piece in the morning. 

So, meet tomorrow morning's breakfast :)

You only live once, right?  I'm thinking that "the day we ate peach pie for breakfast" will stick in her memory for a good long while!