A special "Community Service Project"

My daughter has been doing some home schooling with Carson this year. 

He has a summer birthday and one more year at home with momma is always a good thing!

His 1st field trip to my house involved making apple pies.

Today we had another grandma field trip which I decided would include a 

 Community Service Project.

The community which may at first seem selfish to my readers involved a community of 7 people.... Carson's family, Rick and I, and Uncle Gavin

Let me explain.....

Carson mom (my daughter) Brianna, worked 13 hours Saturday night, had 8 hours of sleep then went back to work another 12hours, which got her to this morning. She then went home, got Audrey ready for school and Carson ready for Grandma's house so that she could not sleep mind you, but go directly to Audrey field trip a Quarry hill. Yes, that's my daughter she worked all night, came home and won't sleep until later tonight, knowing her... probably not until midnight or after.

So back to the Community Service Project.

I thought it would be fun to surprise Brianna with dinner for tonight, so I incorporated a little teaching session on serving others during my time with Carson. We decided that it would give mama a night off from thinking about what to make for dinner. 

And the other half of the meal stays with us and we invite Gavin to dinner WIN/WIN

The best part was Carson and I spending time together, cooking.

 Seriously other than me browning the hamburger and helping with measurements, 

he made the pizza burger mix by himself!

That's not all

 Then it was on to making Chocolate chip cookies....

For dessert  :) 

 Of course there were a few small nibbles .

I made the home-made Chip dip and we sent a bag of chips to go with the Pizza Burgers.

On a side note, I put together a list of all the Carbohydrates in the meal 

so Brianna didn't even have to do that. 

It was more just practice for me since Brianna and Chris are wizards when

 it comes to calculating carbs.

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, 

Since Carson's Pancreas doesn't work, (he is a Type 1 Diabetic),  

all the carbohydrates he consumes have to be covered with synthetic insulin. 

Something that we who have functioning Pancreas's take for granted.