Thats the spirit. Make your own. Then she will cherish those and expect it every year. My family has always had green bean casserole for Thanksgiving. Well my sister hated it. So she asked that I not make it. Well I listened to her not thinking about how my family felt. Well you should have heard the disappointment in them when there was Thanksgiving dinner without their beloved green bean casserole. Well I told my sister after that she could bring her own side dish next time but the green beans would always be on the table.

I am trying to think of something a 3 year old could do to help and feel special about helping. How about filling the deviled eggs? Put the filling in a baggie and let her squeeze the filling in the eggs? Lexi's job was to peel eggs before her eyesight got so bad. Then she filled celery with cream cheese. She always helped. Heather always made brownies the night before. Traci always helped get the table set and always put the rolls on the baking sheet.

Another thing my kids liked was helping bake cookies. They loved rolling dough into balls. Many recipes start out with rolled balls. There lots of things she can start to do.


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