Simple Living: Memories in My Kitchen

This is a photo taken this past Christmas of my niece, Gabby and I making Christmas cookies.  To me this picture says it all, the curiousness of an almost 2 year old, and how eager she was to roll out the dough and cut her favorite shapes out of it, her want to be part of it all and to help her Aunt Steffie.

I have wonderful memories in kitchens.  From my grandparents kitchen watching in awe as my Gramps cut up that turkey at Thanksgiving, to the memory of my Dad putting a cow's head in the freezer and teaching us how to cook with it, to my Mom teaching me how a busy mom cooks, to our family friend's Hela and Rick's kitchen making Christmas Cookies every year (they even gave me as a wedding shower gift the same cookie cutters we used all those year ago), for me many kitchens have created wonderful, wonderful memories.

Living life slower and more simply means taking a step back and giving whatever I can give to those around me.  So this is a gift that I give to Gabby and any children that come into my home, my kitchen and wonderful memories in it.  That to me is what a kitchen is all about LOVE.

I encourage each of you to find a memory that you have in a kitchen as a child and to experience that with someone else as an adult.