My in the kitchen Mom moments? where do I start? The best times spent with my mom and then years later with my son were spent in the kitchen baking together. My earliest memory of baking with my mom was when I was about 5. She was baking pies for a holiday, I don't recall which one and I guess that doesn't really matter. She wrote the entire baking lesson in my baby book so I know I didn't imagine it. We were baking lattice crust cherry pies! After that it seems we were always in the kitchen baking and as my brothers were born we spent more and more time in the kitchen baking keeping up with their sweet tooths (teeth?). Between them and my dad my mom and I baked at least once a day each. Cup cakes, fruit stick, cakes, pies, doughnuts, gingerbread from Grandma's recipe you name it we did it. then when I got married and had a son of my own his very first time helping my bake something was a birthday cake for me! lol He wanted me to bake myself a birthday cake and I told him you don't bake your own birthday cake...at three years old he insisted he could do it...so...I supervised of course, but allowed him to measure and break eggs and mix it all himself. I did the oven stuff of course so he wouldn't get burned. Allowed him to go at it with the frosting and I gave him sprinkles so he could decorate. That was the most beautiful cake I had ever laid eyes on because he had made it "himself". He's now 35 and he still bakes my birthday cake for me. We had many holidays of baking in between also...he's always been interested in baking and cooking. I turned out to be a chef and he teaches his girlfriend how to cook. It's been a wonderful life filled with happy memories of baking. oh and as a PS I can say I have had my grandson in the kitchen with me...helping to decorate cupcakes!!

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