Sam has had a fairly busy and stressful year with gearing up for his PLE and the entrance exam for secondary school. With all of that finished he will not be in school again until February, so we've been engaging him in some activities he's not familiar with -- like BAKING, for instance! Men typically do NO cooking in this culture, unless of course they are young single men who want to eat. But, not being in that category, Sam doesn't feel the need to grace the kitchen with his presence! Enter me. The first couple of days of his break we asked him to weed some of the bananas, but with that finished, he was bored and idle. Today we employed the "if a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat" proverb quite literally as SAM himself made the bread and pie that were served for lunch! Had he not made them, we wouldn't have eaten. I know he didn't enjoy all of the work required for the process, but he sure enjoyed the benefits! It boosted him quite nicely to hear the kids comment about how nice the bread looked and tasted! And the pre-Thanksgiving pumpkin pie wasn't half-bad, either!!
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