When reading this weeks articles it really hit home for me. There are five kids in my family. My mom was a stay- at- home mom looking after us, she always said that one of us got out of diapers and another one got in them. My dad was a elementary/middle school teacher in a lutheran school district. There was a time once when all of us kids where in school when my mom ended up getting a job as a secretary in a doctors office. Now I realize these things that we have been talking about this week. When I was in 3rd or 4th grade I was the one cooking for the whole family. My sisters were in sports and I was not old enough to play so I got stuck doing that chore. Once when I got old enough to play sports things did not change. I am the youngest out of the girls and I have two brothers. But I would come home from practice and dinner was still not made. My brothers and dad were just sitting on the sofa watching tv not even budging to try getting dinner made. They would always ask me what was for dinner. So even though I was still young but after I went to school and practice right after school I was still the one expected to make dinner for everyone.
Even still to this day up at my grandparents house I’m expected to do the chores that women would do. I can’t spend time with my grandpa talking with him like my brothers. I have to help in the kitchen whether it is setting up the kitchen table or doing dishes after breakfast, lunch or dinner. I guess you can say things in my family are still old- fashioned. But the thing is still to this day I love cooking and baking. In some weird way it relaxes me to do some baking by making a batch of cookies.
