cri du chat syndrome | Lessons from my daughter

Exactly a week ago, I sat down and wrote my first ever bucket list.

To celebrate my favorite season and my 40th year, I wrote down a lit of 40 items I want to do before end of day on December 21st.

You can find my post here: Autumn Bucket list

The last 2 items on my list are:

39. Document my bucket list with pictures

40. Blog about my progress weekly

So this is my first update… what could we have possibly done in 1 week!

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#35 – Drink a pumpkin spice latte – this was my first PSL and it will be my last. I couldn’t finish it… this is not my thing, I will keep drinking lattes…

#32 – Perform a random act of kindness – when I bought this Pumpkin Spice latte, I bought my colleagues their favorites too… Just because

#21 – Make binders for Emily’s cheer coaches – I believe I have mentioned before that Emily has joined a cheer club, they have a team for athletes of various abilities and I wanted to give our amazing coaches some tools to help them understands and work with their growing team.

#9. Buy our favorite Halloween candies and keep them for us… I believe I will have to buy more as the box is already open!

#5. Go to the drive-in one last time. Emily was so excited to see Hotel Transylvania 2. And the good thing this time of year? Movie started at 8:30pm instead of 10pm

#2. Visit a pumpkin patch and pick 3 pumpkins. This was interesting! It was family outing / physiotherapy appointment… Emily’s mobility is much better than anything the doctors thought she would achieve but a pumpkin patch… I never thought about how the ground would be uneven and covered in vines… We managed, I helped Emily and we found our way around a huge field of pumpkins to find our perfect “future minions”

#7. Hop on a hay ride – There was no hay on the ride but a wagon pulled by a tractor has to qualify!

So, here it is, week 1.

I’ve also picked my future hair color, saw the blood moon and tried to photographed it, Emily is almost ready for Halloween, we bought the paint to tackle our pumpkin art project and bought supplies for treat bags & cupcakes…

I am so ready to continue tackling this list!

What about you? Do you have a bucket list?

When the head cold hits, I make soup!

That’s a lot of soup for a family of 3!

I don’t follow recipes when I cook unless I’m trying something new and even than, a recipe is a guideline.

How do I make a chicken and vegetable soup?

1. Take all the vegetables out of the fridge, countertop bowl and cupboard

2. Pick what you feel would work in a soup. This time it was: garlic, sweet onion, red onion, purple carrots, celeri, green beans, cauliflowers, red potatoes and tomatoes… I think! All fresh from our weekly farm basket!

3. Add chicken and some chicken broth.

4. Add all the herbs you like (and in my case this week, what I could smell… Remember head cold!)

Emily loved the soup!

Her words: “mom is that homemade cause it’s really good”

My girl!

What about those beets you ask?

I realized we had many beets in the fridge when I took everything out for the soup… So I boiled them.

I’m not sure if Emily likes beets, she doesn’t ask for them and because I love beets so much, I never force anyone else to eat them.

I’m nice like that.

In our farm basket this week we had some nice chard so while Emily only wanted Mac N Cheese…

I let my cooking creativity go and made this…

A little butter, some sugar and a splash or 2 of apple cider vinegar