My family of three

Today Cayleigh and I started the preparation for Thanksgiving. We ran to the store, where I bribed my child to sit in the grocery cart, a donut if she would sit still and be quiet( I DID promise to be honest in this blog!) and she met the MINIMUM requirement to get one. Sigh. We came back and cleaned together while listening to Christmas music. Yup, the time has come to pull it out, and I LOVE it!!! We baked cookies and had a grand time making a mess! I let her do 95% of the measuring with my help and when she turned on the mixer, her hand slipped and she turned it on high with flour going EVERYWHERE! We giggled for a long time on that one. Cooking with Cayleigh can be such a mess, and take SO much longer thank doing it myself, but at the end, we are creating a memory and she feels such a sense of accomplishment, you can see her glowing from a mile away. As I was measuring the ingredients with her and watching the happiness on her face, I remembered how thankful I am to be that lit...

We had a really great weekend! Really though, can 'weekend' even go with 'bad'? I think not. Friday night I had a girls night out to see New Moon, which was awesome! Even more awesome is that Matt stayed with Cayleigh and also watched my friend's daughter with the help of Amanda :) How awesome is he??! The next morning I headed over to visit with Matt's aunt, who was selling crafts at a craft show. Kathi stopped by to visit and bought me my first christmas decoration for the season, thanks so much, I LOVE it!! That evening, we headed to Middletown to spend some time with Amanda and Kristin and had a great dinner with them and Pam came over and we all fell asleep, err, watched a movie. My beautiful arrangement! It also lights up! Her first time with sidewalk chalk. Picture by Kristin. Sunday we got up and headed up to the park where we go camping and took a walk along the C&O canal, and enjoyed some beautiful sights, including a deer running through the w...