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Harvest fun

10/25/2009 by wordsofwinsome

I love Saturdays that are pleasant with my daughter. I phrase it like this because she is 4 years old and Saturdays are not always pleasant. Today however was quiet enjoyable! Last night we baked amazing cookies so this morning we were in the fall mood!

The day started with Claudia wanting to send a present to her friend Lesleigh. She is learning how to write, so I encouraged her to handwrite Lesleigh a note that would be sent along with her gift. We received personal stationary a few months ago from a friend who owns her own stationary company. They are ADORABLY made, VERY reasonably priced AND you can personalize however you want! Certainly worth checking out, they would make a terrific stocking stuffer!

After we dropped the gift off at the post office we headed out to a local coffee shop and plant nursery in the area called The Flower Farm. During this time of year they give free hay rides throughout their pumpkin patch, along the trail they have cute little stations and scarecrow type characters set up for the kids to enjoy. This weekend, they had a craft event, booths with awesome smelling soaps, beautiful necklaces and amazing little trinkets. With our coffee and hot cocoa in hand, we perused and admired all the stations and vendors. After mommy said, “No” about 10 times we headed over to the pumpkin patch to pick out Claudia’s very own personal pumpkin! Claudia took 20+ minutes carefully inspecting each one looking for the “perfect one”. She found it! A medium-sized, perfectly round YELLOW pumpkin. She explained she liked that it was different then all of the orange ones….

We headed into the nursery to pay for our new and very festive YELLOW pumpkin when the clerk looked at it and said, “Um, I’ll sell this one to you for a buck.”

Nice! Way to go, Claudia!!! Thanks for being considerate of mommy’s budget, maybe I shouldn’t have told you “No” so many times! Needless to say, I paid and with a very happy daughter (and mother) we left! Attached are some pictures of the day, I forgot to take one of Claudia with her YELLOW pumpkin. However, on the way home she informed me she did NOT want to cut and carve into the pumpkin. Okay by me, carving is a real mess. As I said, very pleasant Saturday!