Special Moments

I wanted to do something special for Ava before she started school. About this time last year I was reading nie nie dialogues and just had to steal her tradition and make it my own. ( I know, I know...... but I'm just not creative enough to think of this stuff on my own.) If you don't read Stephanie Nielson's blog, you should take a look here. I love it.

So this year I decided to have a Back to School Dinner. Our theme was Choose the Right. And I invited my parents over so that my dad could give Aves a blessing (Spence was out of town). I told Ava that now that she is getting bigger and going off to school, Mom won't always be there to help her make good decisions. We talked about what "choosing the right" means. I'm not quite sure how much of it she understood, but I hope at least one or two things sunk in!

On the Menu:

Pot Roast (one of Ava's favorites)

Corn on the cob

Green Salad (not so much her favorite, but a good healthy choice)

Chocolate cake (pretty much the only thing Ava ate)

Sparkling grape juice (she drank large amounts of this)

I also made Ava a CTR bracelet that she absolutely refused to wear.

But at least it made fun table decor!

Overall, I think things turned out really well! Later that night I asked Ava if she liked her special dinner and she said: "I liked the table cloth and the pretty decorations, but the fancy music you were playing was really weird."

(mental note: scratch the fancy music at next year's back to school dinner)