Baking Cookies

With all the talk on the CHI Singles yahoo group about family traditions, I was inspired to bake with my daughter Liana. Mary's blog post about her baking experience with her daughter also motivated me to get to it! I am not a baker, or a cook for that matter, so it was box cookies. Actually magic cookie bars (newer version of seven layer bars). It was so EASY out of the box! Liana helped me and it was terrific baking with her! I recently purchased a tower for her to stand on in the kitchen so she was higher up and could see what was going on. It worked out great for her to help me.
Today I also started filling out Christmas Cards with Liana's help. I set her up on her table in the Living Room with the tree lights on. I worked off the coffee table. I gave her some Christmas cards to color on so we could send Grandma and others a card from her, while I put the ones with our picture on it into envelops. That worked out great for a few cards anyway. We may try again tomorrow or Monday.
Last week Liana helped me put up the Christmas tree in the Living Room. That was fun.

2006 Christmas Card Picture

I had intended to go back and add posts about various stages of our time together since my last post; however, I am going to start now and work from there. I am going to add a picture that our friend Lori took of us at the Governors Mansion. It was decorated with numerous trees for Christmas. Liana wouldn't smile for any of them. She would look away and not want to get her picture taken AT ALL! I one of the pictures to order Christmas cards through Walgreens. It turned out very nice.