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December 11th, 2006

Sugar and Spice

By CrazyForHer

 I went shopping this weekend and spent $75 on baking ingredients for Christmas baskets for a few neighbors.  I already had most of the items that I purchased but how many times do I bake in one year?  Maybe once or not all.  I am trying to be more like my Mom and I have to say it is harder than hell to be anything close to what she is.  The harder I try the more I realize that she does one heck of a job in the Mom area and an even better job being a Nana.  In the realm of baking?  I need to just give it up right now and ship Maddie to my Mom’s for some cooking lessons.

I have fond memories of my Mom baking at Christmas.  And if you walked into her house right now you would see her counter tops are covered in packages of chocolate chips, flour, sugar and other baking materials.  She is more effecient than Santa and all his elves put together.  She can make enough baked goods for all the people on her block in one afternoon and she does it all AT THE SAME TIME!  I can’t make a boxed cake and take a drink of water at the same time because I will overlook an ingredient.

But I did manage to make cookies, pumpkin bread and chocolate fudge.  The entire pan of chocolate fudge went to the trash because I didn’t get the sugar hot enough.  My Mom always said that fudge is one of the hardest things to make and I had to go and try it anyway.  Failure!  So my neighbors will be getting cookies and bread.  I say good enough for my first year.  Next year maybe I will invite Mom over to help or just pay her to do it.

Maddie had alot of fun and I have to admit that I had fun sharing the experience with her.  It will be more fun when she is old enough to help with the cleaning up.

Maddie and Mom baking cookies

 

Maddies first time with the mixer  

    

Merry Christmas!
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December 7th, 2006

Leap Pads and Strawberry Milk

By CrazyForHer

I have to share an email exchange between Taisia and I. It is too good not to keep record of and I am sure that Kira and Maddie will be so happy that I did. Maybe. If not, Taisia told me to do it.
To: Taisia
From: Lorie
Taisia,

After I got off the phone last night Maddie was really curious about our conversation. She knew I was talking to you and I didn’t realize that she was staring at me from the kitchen the entire time. These days she is really interested in “female related topics”. I don’t want to give you too much information but she thinks that certain times of the month I wear a leap pad and because I am not quite sure how to explain the female cycle, she thinks they make me jump higher. I know, bad information but what do you say to a three year old without freaking them out?
So anyway, last night she was really concerned about the tone of my conversation. I was concerned about you (as always because I love you) and I guess it came across in my voice. After I hung up the phone she immediately wanted to know what was wrong. I said nothing is wrong, Aunt Taisia will be having her baby soon. She said, is she having her now? No, but I think she will be here is a few weeks and then we can hold her. Then she wanted to know where the baby comes out. And yes I had to use the big V word that Chris loves to hear so much. Except Maddie calls it “bajina” so maybe no one will notice when she blurts it out in public. I had to set her straight because she thought that babies come from your butt and while it is fine and dandy for her to think that my maxi pad makes me jump higher, it is NOT ok for her to think that her baby cousin came out of your butt.
And with that story I will end this email! Love to you all!

Lorie
From: Taisia
To: LorieHA! Oh my, that is so funny. Thanks for correcting her because I would hate for this child to be known as “butt baby” or something gross like that. That is very funny. And why would she think your pad makes you jump higher – was that hers or your idea?It reminds me of the other day when Kira and I were talking about how strawberry milk is a combination of strawberries and milk, and chocolate milk is from chocolate and milk. Then she asked about where regular milk comes from. I said “from a cow” and she said “is it the cow’s pee-pee?” It cracked me up but I had to set her straight very quickly because I don’t want her telling people that her mommy’s makes her drink cow’s pee. Oh, and with the strawberry milk thing she wanted to hear a story about it so we made up this story about how Maddie was running around with a cup of milk and Kira was running around with some strawberries. They ran into each other and the strawberries fell into the cup of milk. Then according to the story Kira said “oh I have an idea – let’s drink it”. Then Maddie said “yeah, and let’s call it strawberry milk”. Kira loved the story!!

Love,

Taisia

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