Hi folks, My 19 year old daughter will be coming home this Wednesday for the Thanksgivings weekend. To sum it up since she graduated high school in June of 2005 I've seen her for about 20 days. both summers she worked in a sleepaway camp, and she traveled and schooled abroad for a year. And now she's far away at college. Haven't seen her since early September. She is definitely an independent little thing.
Here's the thing, my baby's coming home and I want everything to be perfect. So where does my brain go? - I'm gonna make her her favorite foods - baked ziti, eggplant parmesean, roast beef, steak, apple pie, oatmeal cookies, etc.,etc. You get the picture. At this point I feel strong enough that I can handle having it in the house without me overeating it (at least I think so). But am I doing the right thing - making her all these high calorie foods? I mean I have barely seen her in the last 1 1/2 years and my first thoughts are to comfort her with food. But then again she hasn't had any good homecooking in a loong time. This question has really nothing to do with her weight (which is not great, but certainly not terrible 5ft 1 inch, 135 lbs). I guess my question is would it be wrong, am I sending the wrong message, using food in the wrong way by making all of her favorites?
Any thoughts? Thanks wise ladies.