Cooking With Samuel (Gabrielle)
Samuel and I made breakfast today. I love cooking with that little man. I finally realized some time back that for Samuel cooking is a way to express love. He’s very much like his mother that way. He’ll ask to help with a meal and I never quite understood why. I mean, the others will ask sometimes, but it sounds different from Samuel somehow. Arianna mostly wants to hang out with people and Isaac likes to use the electric mixer. But I never quite understood why Samuel wanted to help. And then one day I was talking with Crystal and she explained it to me. So today Samuel and I made fried eggs on toast and oatmeal for everybody. He cracked all the eggs except for the one in the way back of the skillet and got nary an eggshell in the pan. I taught him how to flip an egg which he explained was very similar to flipping pancakes. It’s so much fun to help someone learn a way to express love for his family.