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Helping Mom With Dinner.

Every afternoon (unless Mom and Ernie plan to go out for dinner), I set
the table.  I get out big plates and put them on the counter, I get out
knives and forks and put them on the table, and I get out glasses, fill
two of them with water for Mom and Ernie, and put the glasses on the
table.

During dinner preparations, if Mom asks, I help her by fetching
ingredients, putting ingredients away, getting out lettuce, washing the
lettuce, and spinning it dry.  Yesterday, I helped Mom make breadsticks!

I occasionally take pies, cakes, or cookies out of the oven.

After dinner, I: 

Clear the dirty dishes from the table and put them in the dishwasher. 
If the dishwasher is full, I run it.  If the dishwasher is full of clean
dishes, I empty it if Mom hasn't done so already.  I put the dishes on
the shelves above the counter, I put the silverware in the drawers near
the top of the counter, and I put the glasses on the shelves above the
sink.  I put the cooking utensils and measuring cups in the drawers just
under the stove.

Wash pots, pans, bowls, the sharp knives (which will be damaged of put
in the dishwasher), and food processor parts, and put them in a drainer
in the sink.  When they are dry, it put them away.  The pots and pans go
under the stove, the knives go in the slots in the knife storage
apparatus, and the food processor parts go back on the food processor.

Put away the left over food in the refrigerator or freezer.  My Mom and
I often put left over vegetables and meat in plastic bags and put them
in the freezer for future pies.

Wipe the counter with a sponge, and sometimes the floor.

Empty the wastebasket if it's full.  I also empty all the wastebaskets
on Mondays, since the garbage is picked up on Tuesdays.

If Mom has made bread in her bread machine, I take out the bread and put
it on a cooler.  I then put the main bread machine away, wash the bread
pan and the blade and put them in the drainer.  Once they are dry, I put
them back in the bread machine.