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Sometimes my son and I have these days when, though we've been together since before the sun came up, I realize that we whiled away hours and hours and still somehow managed to not spend any quality time together. We were so busy running from one errand here, a meeting there, a pit stop for nap time and rushing home to greet my husband that we hardly said a word to each other all day outside of, "Baby, I think we put your pants on backwards," and "Mommy, my shoe fell off an hour ago in aisle nine."

Yeah, Not a good feeling.

Cooking dinner together is one of the ways we reconnect. Yes, you read that right - my two-year-old son helps me cook dinner. He's not dicing jalapenos or boiling live lobsters or anything, but he does enjoy helping me measure and add spices, and if there's something that needs stirring, my son's your man.

This would be impossible without this gadget we found here in Tulsa one day when we popped in to see what Sage Culinary Studio was all about when it first opened two years ago on Brookside. It's called the Kitchen Helper, and without it, my son and I couldn't have made together some of the memories of my motherhood that I hold so close to my heart.

What the heck is the Kitchen Helper? <a href="http://www.tulsakids.com/?q=confessions-work-home-mom-kitchen-helper">Find out on my blog at TulsaKids.com</a>.

