On Thursday it snowed. It was beautiful as it fell and covered the ground with a light dusting of white, but I'm not ready for it. Rory was though -- she thought it was great fun to play out in it on our balcony. Her favorite thing was putting some snow in a cup, bringing it inside, waiting for it to melt, and then drinking the water.
Also on Thursday Rory and I cooked supper together. We made macaroni and cheese with spinach and mushrooms. When it was almost finished she had a little taste of it and said Mama, you make some lovely things for supper. I thought it was just about the sweetest thing she could have said at that moment. Then later she called it macaroni and cheese with spinach and mushrooms and onion and garlic, because we had indeed put onion and garlic in there. Rory got one last taste of the mac and cheese and then she said, with great conviction, my daddy will like this. He did. And Rory and I had fun cooking together.
On Saturday we visited the pumpkin patch. A local farmer has planted several rows of pumpkins in his field and all the ex-pats enjoy going out to the farm for pumpkins just before Halloween. Saturday morning was pretty cold and damp so we didn't spend too long there, but did pick out three pumpkins to take home. This year many of the pumpkins remained green because we've had colder than usual weather.
We didn't have time to carve our pumpkins until Sunday morning and Rory was very eager to get to make jack-o-lanterns. Stepler and I woke up earlier than Rory and started watching our recording of the Georgia game right away because we knew Rory wouldn't last for the whole game. Thank goodness we did because about 40 minutes after waking up, Rory started asking if we could carve pumpkins and didn't stop until she we got started on the pumpkins. As soon as the game ended we got started on the pumpkins. We decided that Rory's was too small to carve so she and Stepler worked on the biggest one and I worked on the medium sized one.
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