Three cheers for the new store

Our little neighborhood does not offer a huge assortment of amenities. The pared down basics within a mile or so of our home are as follows: a post office, a community center, some seasonal farm stands, an elementary school, and a church. Today, however, the list expanded to include the most fabulous little market a girl could dream of. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit, but it is exciting to me. When I moved here, there was only an extremely run down store with dusty, mostly empty shelves. In fact, it took months for me to even walk into the store because from the outside I couldn't tell if it indeed was a store. Well that old store eventually closed and energetic renovators purchased it. After being worked on for nearly a year, the new store stands in stark contrast to the old one. It is bright and beautiful and full of a lot of natural and organic products I like to buy. It also has random convenience items such as scotch tape and birthday candles. Today was their opening day and I can't wait to go back.

The other elements of the day included volunteering at the church holiday sale (at which Ava did most of her gift shopping) , basketball practice for Ava and a mini pie bee with Lea. We cooked down our sugar pumpkins, rolled out crusts and assembled pies. I also baked some pumpkin bread which on the first round came out burned and stuck to the pan. Fortunately the second round came out the usual way, which is quite yummy I think . I 'm not sure if my mistake was cramming too many things in the oven at once and not paying attention to timing, but boy it was disappointing to have a known recipe go wrong. In spite of the occasional baking mishap, I still love to cook. Of course having my sister over made it all the more fun.
Lilla says hi!