Working on Patience

After I wrote my last blog, I decided to focus more on my patience with my kids. That evening I decided it might be fun to make home-made pizza. There would be enough things involved in making it that everyone would be able to have a job or two. We would be making two pizzas: one cheese and the other hamburger.

I put Logan in charge of browning the hamburger as he is getting old enough to understand that the pan gets very hot and you just hold on to the handle. He did a fine job and asked questions when he needed.

The girls and Carter helped make the pizza dough. They each got to pour in some mix or water and all got to stir it up. Even Grace had a good time participating.

We all tried to spread the crust out on the sheets, but that posed more difficult than it should have been. It was quite sticky, so I ended up getting it as spread out as I could. But we all had a great time getting our hands dirty and sticky with dough. All except Grace this time.

Logan topped his with his browned hamburger while everyone else spread out the cheese. Grace had a good time trying to eat hers before I could get it into the oven.

They baked up well and we all enjoyed a memory filled pizza for dinner!

The best part for me was seeing them all work together and realizing when I really try, I can be patient with them all. I hope this will jump start me onto a different path that includes more patience with my family and in my life.