Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Food is a huge part of our family culture. Not just fancy or exotic foods, but food made together, created as a family, and meals seasoned by laughter and joy. When we get too busy or just have too much weighing on our family, we lose that. We rush through getting food on the table, stressed about places to be, overwhelmed by work to be done and our concerns of the day. Concerns that in a few days or a few weeks will be forgotten, and we will be left wondering where has the time gone?

Today, we made time. Monkey wanted to have pizza (non-dairy, of course), 'bucha and extra chocolate, chocolate chip cookies for dinner. He also needed some one on one time, so while Turtle took his nap, we got to work on those cookies. Monkey's been in the kitchen since he could hold a spoon.
                              (Throwback Thursday, HOW WAS HE EVER THIS LITTLE?)

     

Now he's really cooking, "all by himself ."
I love how independent he is. I love how willing he is to try new things, to learn from mistakes and to create and imagine beyond what he's been "taught." I love that he's big enough to do so many amazing things,  but it surprises me to think that his babyhood and even toddler years are already gone, that he is firmly a child. It delights me to think of his coming years and all the adventures that wait ahead. More than all of these; it resolves me to always make time for cooking together.