Ahhh... The LONG Weekend.

Here it is 4AM Monday morning. I've been a crazy Shank--well it would be silly if I wasn't--baking all night long for the students at work. I don't know what happened! I meant to do all the baking on Friday afternoon/evening, but ended up Christmas shopping, and grocery shopping and then More Christmas Shopping online!

I'm beginning to see what my Grandmother is saying when she says, "once you set your mind to something, Sarah, no matter what it is, you follow it through to completion". This applies for even the silliest of things, like baking cookies. (My sister stays up until all hours of the morning making Chocolate cream pies... so I gather it's likely a Shankly trait!).

Ah.. but now, surely that I'm online BLOGGING at 4 in the AM... the cookies must be done. Well...All except for the icing drying and me putting them away. Now, I realize.. hmmm.. I better get these candy canes set.

Commander T is upset because I'm not sleeping tonight. I am rationalizing that I"m going to take a 1/2 day tomorrow. This means that I can come home at noon... and kind of lay around with Scianna for the rest of the day. I think I'm going to do that. Had I actually gone to bed, like a good Sarah, I would have taken Scianna to work for cookie goodness.. :)

Of Course Saturday I had to work at the music studio. It was actually busy in there. Every time I turned around, either the phone was ringing, or there was someone coming in wanting something. I know it was only busy in there today because I needed to be out of the studio on time. OF course, I ended up leaving a 1/2 hour after I would have liked. However crazy it was, Tim's mom offered us lunch at the little place called "A taste of texas" It was pretty good. Scianna even decided she was going to behave. That was fantastic--although messy. Red juice and khaki colored pants, really don't mix well. From the restaurant we piled into the car and made our way out to Aunt Kris's house. We had planned to go to the 'festival of lights' at the Erie County Fair Ground (and to pick up a faux X-Mas tree or our apt.). So, with me finishing up late, and the invite to lunch, we ended up leaving a lot later than I thought we would. Luckily, they were just getting ready to go when we got there!


Scianna ooh'ed and ahhed at the lights like the best of them. She even got a kick out of the real reindeer they had in the stables. She did NOT care for Santa, however. We got to see a magic show with some kreepy elf/magician named Candy Cane. He made some pretty age inappropriate jokes, I thought. However the magic was interesting. My mind is often too simple to figure all the tricks out. Scianna seemed to enjoy it. She just wanted to sit in my lap and watch... which was difficult because my foot kept falling to sleep. OF course, when the magic show was over, I realized that her diaper must not have been changed in quite a while because she was wet AND I was wet!

They had some other things there... some rides... Scianna really enjoyed the carosel. As much as she liked it, I couldn't believe how much it cost to ride it! $2.00. Really expensive. They had a few little booths set up around. THere were some pretty expensive, but really beautiful silk shirts. I really admired these string paintings that were there. I can't believe how much time someone must spend on them. It's basically cross stitch to the extreme! There were a lot of people and it was really really warm in the buildings. I even walked all the way back to the van without my coat. By the time we got to the van, I was feeling a little bit more refreshed. Scianna did try and enjoy cotton candy, and hot pretzels, and christmas cookies.

Despite the crowds and the price gouging, it was a really nice time. We trooped back to Aunt Krissy's house and she pawned some nice Christmas decorations off on us. We arrived home at
midnight. What a long and exciting day!

Today (or yesterday it is now) I woke up at 8 and started with the baking. I made ginger bread, Cut outs, Chocolate crackle-tops, spritz's (well COmmander T did with the handy dandy cookie gun.), and mint/oatmeal cookies. I was also required to attend a recital at 2 pm for my students while Commander T and Scianna went to see Great-Grandma Wagner. After that I stopped at the store to get more butter and back home to finish the baking, and the laundry, and cleaning up Scianna.

Scianna was a really fantastically well behaved little lady this weekend. I'm so glad! I get nervous sometimes! She is so silly. I made soup today as well (a ham lentil confection). Scianna will NOT eat from her own bowl. She has to eat from Mommy's. Mommy's food always tastes better than the Scianna food, even though it's exactly the same.

Well I'm going to go lay down for forty five minutes.. whoo hoo!!!!

:)