Yesterday afternoon, Tracey came home from school and promptly finished all her homework for the rest of the week. Then she and I did her spelling practice together. Then, she started asking if she could make something in the kitchen.
She occasionally asks if she can create something in the kitchen, and the answer is usually "No" because I don't think food is something a 7-year-old needs to experiment with. Food is expensive, and we're not going to start poking around in the kitchen hoping a weird combination will taste good.
But yesterday, she came to me with a cookbook in hand. She had a princess cookbook that she will occasionally ask if we can use to make something and my response is usually "no" because we don't have either the ingredients or the time - usually both.
But yesterday, she had chosen a pudding, whipped cream, and blueberry parfait. She asked if we had each of the ingredients, and we did... and she asked if she could make that recipe.
And finally, I had no reason to say "no".
She made the pudding, and 30 minutes after it chilled, she assembled the parfaits, and ALL of siblings LOVED her creation - pudding whipped cream and thawed frozen blueberries -- even Brady could have one.
I still have a hard time knowing what to do with my incredibly grown up daughter who is maturing and developing into her own person, every day. She has her own interests, her own determination, and an incredibly inventive and creative nature.
