Joseph Littleshoes wrote:

> ~patches~ wrote:
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>>Leila wrote:
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>>>Yabbut when does it end? How about baking with a 5 y.o. AND a 4 y.o.
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>>in
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>>>the house? Both boys. Both eager to help. Both not very good at fine
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>>>motor tasks? (and because they're not so good at fine motor, you
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>>want
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>>>to give them chances to do fine picky stuff, for practice).
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>>>We don't do cakes actually. We do drop cookies, oatmeal, from a
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>>recipe
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>>>that can be done by hand, no appliances.
>>>
>>>Leila
>>>
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>>Oh like you have problems! It doesn't end. Try baking with a grown
>>DH
>>who has to have his fingers into everything and love eating raw cookie
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>>dough and so on. Then he has to toss a little of this or a little of
>>that in because he *thinks* it needs that little extra. Talk about
>>the
>>whining if he doesn't get to lick the beaters or use his fingers to
>>scoop out that last little bit of the mixing bowl. I tell you if you
>>have boys they only get bigger but they never really grow up. My boys
>>
>>are just like DH and DD is worse so don't aim for a girl either. I
>>try
>>to do my serious cooking and baking when he's out of the house
>
>
> I eventually ended it with a person who could not wait till food was
> done to start eating, who would routinely slice off a leg of a chicken,
> take a piece of fish or any thing else i was cooking and consume it
> over the sink leaving a mutilated dish to serve at table.
>
> Unfortunately this kitchen problem was merely indicative of a greater
> impatience with life and having to have things her own way all the time.
>
> ---
> JL
>
>
I look at DH's picking at everything I cook while I cook it as a
compliment. He's always done it. He loves food so if he eats it that
means it's pretty good. He's a pretty good cook in his own right and is
always tasting as he cooks. Sometimes it's a blessing for fine tuning
dishes like chili. He doesn't like it too spicy and I like it where it
will blow your socks off so I rely on him to get it somewhre in between.
He's comes in handy when I have a cold and my taste buds are off. I'm
a taster too. OTOH, he doesn't have the problem of your ex