Banana Bread with the kids

The husband had been asking for more banana muffins. Every week I cooked a batch of muffins, but they were not banana and he was feeling left out. So I made muffins one day and he said it is my wish that you would make muffins with nuts.

I generally don't cook with nuts that way they are edible for all people. I decided I would make an exception and began to mentally prepare myself. I also bought the walnuts at the store so I would have them on hand when I finally decided I would make them.

Now I'm the kind of person that very often has to tell herself over and over that a task will be taken on and completed. This could go anywhere from actually calling my mom or sister to cleaning the entire house, not just one bathroom. So I decided on a Sunday to make these muffins.

On this particular Sunday I woke up not feeling my best. I had a nagging headache which I used doTerra Peppermint essential oil on several times throughout the day. It works wonderfully by the way.

I also felt exhausted. It's been a busy couple of weeks here. Weekends are spent with little to no help from hubby. This isn't because he is sitting around relaxing, it is because he has to work a lot lately. Mentally I felt exhausted and physically.

So I set about getting things together. The kids jumped at the opportunity. Both of them love  being involved with muffin making. The challenge was me not feeling the my very best and knowing that my well meaning kids would be in the kitchen attempting to help.

I said a little prayer asked the Lord to get me through, and you know he did. :)

I put my daughter on a stool on the left side of the counter and my son on the right side. I gave each of them a task and helped them to follow through.

My daughter also decided that she should try and lick everything, if she wasn't trying to lick something, she was trying to dip her finger in it. Thankfully these muffins were going to be only for us to consume because I am fairly certain we were not up to health codes with her licking her finger every five seconds.

Yes multiple hand washing sessions were included in the process of mixing the muffins.

At some point in this process I told my son that we would be putting nuts in the muffin mix. And then someone how we ended up talking about Poppy's nut, which nearly reduced me to laughter, but somehow I kept it together.

All three of us survived and no one was reduced to tears, which is an awesome feat!

We all ended up enjoying our time together in the kitchen. My daughter loved the blowback from the hand mixer and my son loved filling up the measuring cups.

I am thankful that I have children that want to learn how to navigate a kitchen. I am working through the great anxiety that this causes me. I remind myself over and over that I do not want to be my mother. She was unable to patience my sister and I out. She needed to have control over every aspect of cooking. Plus she really didn't know how to follow a recipe in order to make it from scratch.

Be kind to your kids when they come rushing into the kitchen to help, let them, teach them and cherish each and every moment.

 

My pictures are of both kids getting a chance to hold the hand mixer all by themselves


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Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword