Cooking with Wes 2.0?

So it's been a few years since we've done this.  Does the fact that we're doing it today mean that we're back?  Probably not...

Why did we stop?  Well, there were a few reasons.  First of all, we learned about peer pressure and 7 year-old boys through this experiment.  Nothing bad actually happened, but Wes lost interest when he started to worry that kids in his class would find out what we were doing.  That made me sad, but I understood.  Unfortunately, we live in a world where we still can't celebrate how we are different but where it's easiest to be the same - at least outwardly.  When you're a shy, introverted kid things that make you stand out also make you uncomfortable.

Secondly, Wes just got tired of being committed to doing something every week.  9 weeks is about the attention span of a 7 year-old.  We were starting to cut into his t.v. and video game time.  While that disappointed me, this couldn't become something that was a chore or something that we fought about.

So I did my best to hide my disappointment and we moved on.  Then a funny thing happened.  Wes started to ask about doing this again.  A friend poked at me on Facebook and it got us talking about it.  As a 9 year-old now, Wes can do a lot more than 2 years ago.  So, we'll see where it takes us.  Maybe it will take another 10 years to finish our way through all of our family recipes, and maybe that's just okay.