The Daisy Promise

Tonight is our Daisy Investiture!
Faith and her fellow Daisy Scouts will be receving their pins tonight.  I learned that the girls must have their pins in order to walk in the Christmas parade so we had to rush to figure out an Investiture ceremony.  My co-leader and I have never been Girl Scouts and are learning as we go.  Luckily, there is A LOT of information out there to help us.  We decided to go with the petal chart for our ceremony (This is based off of the Daisy Scout patch).  It has parts of the Girl Scout promise on each petal.  Each of the girls will bring up the petals and attach them to the board as we recite that section of the promise and then they will receive their pins!

The Thanksgiving Menu

*Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving

As shared in an email to a friend.  Her beautiful family will be joining us on Thanksgiving.  In her email she graciously asked what she could bring to contribute to the meal.  Here is my reply:

Dear______,

Please bring something that would be typical for your family on Thanksgiving, something perhaps regional to California that maybe we would never have experienced having grown up in the deep south. Or, bring some fun drinks for the kids. Or, bring a few snacky items for while I'm still cooking away because Thanksgiving is all about the cooking and chatting as much as its about gathering and digging in!

We also wanted you to know, we are not fancy around here. There is usually a football game outside at some point, sometimes a bonfire, somtimes poker games that go on and on and on. We are just very fluid on Thanksgiving and we want you to feel comfortable and not stuffy (because we are so NOT stuffy). If you feel more true to your Thanksgiving by dressing up then we will be glad to join in, but bring play clothes over so that the girls can also join in on a football game later. Just let me know!
I've had bronchitis (I am much better) so I'm sorry to be late answering you!
So far I'm making:
Turkey
Cornbread dressing
Giblet Gravy
Cranberry Sauce from a can with the indentions left on (its Grandma's you know and we just can't do it any other way)
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows on top (some might call this a dessert, but it is not in our house even if the amount of sugar in it cancels out all that vitamin A)
Dinner Rolls (sometimes homemade and sometimes not and sometimes they just never get made or heated up so we rely more heavily on the cornbread stuffing)

After we've stuffed ourselves silly:
Pumpkin Pie
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Pie

I like to have deviled eggs and some veggies with dip for the kids to get completely full on before I serve them the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, this is just so that I can fuss and pout that I slaved away all day and nobody ate...what kind of mother would I be if I didn't bring some sort of guilt into the holiday!

Looking forward to spending the day with your family!

Kathryn

A Day Of Rest

Tobias was home sick yesterday (but is better now)

He was BORED!

So several houses of cards got built,

and several shouts of "Mom, take a picture of this"

ALL. DAY.LONG.

I don't mind though, all those houses/pictures

are better than a day filled with

more cartoons~

In other news...

Here are Molly and Iggy

the most spoiled dogs in Warren County!

It stormed and rained yesterday,

they have a nice castle style

play house to stay dry in,

but NOOOOOOoooooo

they want to be in the laundry/family closet room

and I really can't blame them,

it is warm and cozy in there~