A Few Things

Henry BEGGED me for this ornament - don't ask me why!  But it was about the only thing on sale that I could find today - I can not believe the lack of post Christmas sales out there!!  He then proceeded to spend an hour on www.pillsbury.com looking at recipes!!  What??

What is a mother to do when she is trying to grow out the top of a child's head?  One would think that since she is small, the hair wouldn't take as long to grow out because there is not as far for it to grow - not the case.  Ponytails make her head itch.  Barrettes fall out.   So I decided to try something new with Kyra's hair - headbands!  She looks SO CUTE in them, doesn't she?  But alas, they hurt her neck, or her head.  Back to the drawing board...

Kyra got a hold of my camera again... I didn't realize she had until I went to download the camera & there were 50 pictures on it... all that basically resembled the ones below.

Day Before, Day of and Day After Christmas!

On Christmas Eve, we went to Aunt Cyndi's for dinner, then to 7:00 Candlelight Service.... try as I did, I could not convince Henry to wear nicer pants for the entire evening, instead I had to bring his nice pants for him to change into!  I really hope this sweat pants / track pants thing is a phase!

Thankfully, the kids slept in until 7am on Christmas morning, because Mommy & Daddy didn't get to bed until midnight!  That's what I get for waiting until Christmas Eve to wrap their presents!!

Kyra is LOVING her new art table!

This morning, Kyra and I hit Target for some after Christmas sales... however, the pickins were rather slim.  So we went to Dunkin Donuts for coffee & chocolate creme filled donuts, which even Hobbies enjoyed!

Peanut Butter Blossoms

Yesterday the kids and I finally started making some Christmas cookies.  First up were Peanut Butter Blossoms... it was all Henry could do to keep from eating the dough and most of the Kisses were eaten, but Kyra had LOTS of fun rolling the balls in sugar!!

Earlier in the day, Kyra got a hold of my camera AGAIN!  I have lovely pictures of Henry's computer, a stack of pillows, the floor, the desk... but my favorite was the one she took of Barty!!  Well Done Kit Cat!

More Holiday Fun

I've been a bit lax about posting anything for the last few weeks - I don't remember being so busy around the holidays before... work has been crazy busy lately and I still have to wrap gifts, bake cookies for Santa and get rid of the grey hair that is sprouting out of the top of my head!  And only 3 days left!

Anyway, on Sunday (once our Gingerbread Tree was stable), we spent the afternoon with the extended James Family... an annual gathering with Brad's dad's side of the family.  It's always fun to get together with the James Family... there are 11 grandchildren now... 3 of whom Kyra simply referred to as "the girls."  For the first time ever, she actually cried when it was time to go, because she did not want to leave her new friends!  It was actually very cute... but so was the fact that she fell asleep at 5:30pm on the drive home!!!

Well, the falling asleep at 5:30 would have been cute, had she not gotten up at 3am and proceeded to vomit every half hour for the next 4 hours!!!  Thankfully, a short lived bug, but that never gets old, does it?

Thanks again to Mia & Trey for these adorable hand me downs!!!!  

Run, Run as Fast as You Can

On Sunday, the kiddies and I attempted to create our first Gingerbread Masterpiece - a Christmas Tree!  I'll be honest - I bought this kit last year, after Christmas, when it was about 75% off... so when we opened it the other morning, the icing was a tad on the hard as a rock side and a couple of the "limbs" had broken.... but a little kneading of that icing brought it back to life and well, year old icing will glue just about anything together.

The kids had a great time and were determined to use every piece of candy provided on their tree.  Of course, every time I walk by this masterpiece, I do wonder if it will last another day... it has a bit of a lean to it!  Likely caused by the fact that I can barely assemble a house of cards, let alone a tree of gingerbread!!

The Holiday Shop

Henry's school has a "holiday shop" and each class gets to go shopping there one time.  The email I received from school said that most items in the shop were $1 or less, some were $2 and even fewer items were $3.  Henry's class went today to do their shopping.  The idea is that you put money in an envelope, write on the envelope who they are buying for & send them on their merry shopping way.

Last night, Henry totally did not want to shop.  This morning, I stuck $5 in an envelope and wrote "For Mommy, Daddy & Kyra."  I told him that if he wanted to shop, he had plenty of cash to do so... or did he?

He was VERY excited when I picked him up today - it was the first thing he told me... he said, "I went to the holiday shop today... but I ran out of money... I couldn't buy you anything."

I was sure he was kidding - a little 5 year old humor... I mean, I'm his MOTHER - I gave him LIFE!  I still dress him every morning, give him a bath almost every night and stay up with him when he's sick.  I planned his birthday party & made up all the party favors.  I bake him brownies every few weeks... Surely I got a sticker or something?  Surely his teacher provided him with a quick math lesson on what to spend per person when you have $5 for 3 people?

He wasn't kidding... he bought Kyra a container of bubble gum (because she loves the stuff) and he bought Brad a picture frame with baseballs on it... I know this because he insisted that they open their presents today!  These are extremely sweet, well thought out gifts... I'm actually quite proud that he saw these items and thought of his sister & Dad.  

I've decided to chalk this up to the fact that MAYBE I am hard to shop for????