Kids in the Kitchen

I'm about to enter my kitchen with the express purpose of baking Thanksgiving goodies:  pumpkin pies, cookies, biscotti...who knows, maybe even the Pumpkin Bread Pudding from the Pioneer Woman's Throwdown with Bobby Flay. 

 I love baking and cooking so this is my idea of a good time.  The only hitch is that I'm going to try to teach my kids how to make alot of this as well and I'm not the best teacher in the world.  I'm also a control freak.  This means I have a tendency to do things myself because I want them done a certain way and I don't want to take the time to re-do it after the kids.  It saves me time but I know, in the back of my muddled mind, that this is not doing the kids any favors.  They need to learn and I need to let them.  So much easier said than done.

But, with that thought in mind, I will plunge forth into the kitchen and hopefully come out the other side with wonderfully imperfect pies and good memories for both the kids & me. 

That's the plan anway....