Long weekend of fun and some rough times

   Saturday after our Thanksgiving meal we received word that Mimi was not doing well at all. Mimi is Steve's aunt's mother in law but she is more like a grandma to us. We go almost every Saturday to the nursing home to see her and we take her special things...homemade chicken n dumplings, candy whatever she'd like. Kaya has always adored her but when her Nanny passed away they became very tight. So when we heard they were calling the family in Sat evening and asking them not to leave much we decided to pass our blessings on. We fixed Aunt and Uncle a plate heaping with food, a baggie of rolls and headed to the nursing home.
  Mimi had went comatose Saturday afternoon. She wasn't drinking or eating and had asked that no life support/ivs be used. It was very hard seeing Mimi just sleeping. Kaya still didn't feel great so we sat for a bit then headed home.
  Sunday we decided to make Christmas cookies. Steve is the best cookie maker and I've yet to ever taste a bad cookie (minus the ones that were made with old baking soda lol) he's made. Kaya asked if her Grandma T could come help so we called her up, pulled out the mixing bowl, ingredients, cutters, icing, decorations and whipped up some tasty homemade sugar cookies. Kaya was a little amazed that Grandma T had never made them so she "taught her how to do it". It was fun. 
  Kaya tossing the dough ball from one hand to the other. Steve does this to prep the dough. Kaya rolled the dough out carefully with her rolling pin. Steve says the key is uniform cookies and no thin edges.  

Kaya cut out designs. She did stockings, Cmas trees and snowmen. She did a pretty good job. 
  Then she decorated them with either white, red or green icing. I buy up on cookie/cake decorations after the holidays (sprinkles etc go to 50% or more off!!) so she had plenty of choices for her cookies.  We also did a few with just chocolate mint baking chips.

Her cookies came out very cute. Grandma T got a good lesson lol and had a great time as well. We decided to take a pan to the nursing staff at the nursing home and a pan to Steve's family that was sitting at the nursing home so they would have snacks. Both groups greatly appreciated them. We sat for over an hour with the family. Mimi was not looking any better. Kaya had made her a picture so she "showed" it to Mimi and sat by her bed talking to her. Very hard on our hearts. She had asked that we "not let Mimi leave because I won't have a Mimi or a Nanny!" So very hard indeed. 

  Once home we explained to Kaya what was going on and answered her questions. I don't want to see Mimi suffer but it's so hard to let the ones we love go.