My delima

As you have probably already realized Christmas is is on Sunday this year. Can you guess my delima??? To go or not to go???
Please dont get me wrong, it is the season to celebrate the birth of Christ. And when I go I'll be glad I did.


BUT

my brother & sister in law are here for three days. And all the Christmas traditions are not possible to do if we go to this service. It's at 11am. Complain, complain. I know, not very nice am I????? Well, what do you think?

ps there will be NO nursery for this 1 hour service.

Finally

Well, I'm finally able to put something up. Hello to all, how are ya??? I've written this message several times now but there was something funky going on with the connection.

We had a great Thanksgiving with the family & then played outside after we were stuffed. We also took the kids to the Christmas parade. They loved it!!! I was freezing. Justus did not like the sirens, they made him cry. At least I know he is afraid of something. An odd thought I know, but he sometimes seems fearless.

I am finally done shopping for the family. Now I only need the last minute stuff for stockings. AHHHHHH, what a relief!

I'm glad that is done because between now & Christmas it's mass chaos! As I'm sure you all know. Parties, dinners & food.

What fun this was!

What fun this was!
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Chicken Little or Little Chicken????

Chicken Little or Little Chicken????
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How TO

Has anyone seen the commerical from Lowes improvement store about their HOW TO clinics??? (Lowes is like HOME DEPOT).
Well I saw the add & looked online to see what they were teaching. This past saturday was how to decorate & make a wreath.

I can decorate a tree pretty well but am pretty shakey on the wreath part. I thought it would be fun so a couple of us girls sign up, get babysitters(daddys). We all went to breakfast together & headed that way.

WHen we got there we had no idea where to go.(no directions) So we asked at the front desk. The "manager" told us where to go. We get back there & its a man standing there. No table, supplies, etc. I asked again where to go. He said here.

I asked what we would be doing....& I quote: "We're going to show you how to fluff your tree & show you the decorations we have for sale". I was ticked!!!!!!!! This took planning!!!!!!!

Well the manager heard all about it & said there was supposed to be a lady back there to help. We walked back there but when the mystery lady didn't show up after 15 minutes we talked to the manager again.

I think she was embarrassed. My mom politely mentioned that next year she would teach the class if they didn't have anyone else qualified.

After that fiasco we all went shopping again. And then came home for dinner. YUMMMMMMM!

Addicted

Justus is addicted to the movie Monster INc. & he has been fussing the past 15 minutes while I've been checking email. I think Im learning to tune out that whinning. Though after a while you jus say enough is enough.

I had a pretty good weekend. Saturday was my sisters birthday so mom watched the baby, sam watched Justus & the other kids were elsewhere. We took the day for ourselves. We went SHOPPING! Oh, what fun. Now Im broke.

Bethany wanted to get her nails done so we stopped in & got that done. I got acrylics for the first time. They look nice but my nails were sore the first day. I guess I have two weeks to decide if I really want to keep them or just have them taken off.

Then we had lunch & shopped till we dropped. This year we put a $10/person limit. It's hard to find something real nice at that price but we were pretty sucessful. I started christmas shopping in August so I'm 99% done.

We left the house around 11am & got back at 6:30pm. I was pooped! But we ended up "playing scene" it at a friends house. Guys against girls. The guys won 2 times & we won once. FUN!

My growing child

Lately Justus has been amazing me more & more. Like when he said "watch this mom". No kidding those were his exact words. He usually says one or two words at a time but that little sentence caught me by surprise. Kids are so cute.

After some testing the doctors finally figured out that he doesn't have asthma, only severe allergies. They also said he is still young enough to develop asthma. But for now he has dodged the family curse.

Also, he is now three feet tall & 30 pounds....no wonder he is so heavy!

Pathetic

Well, I stayed home from church & played Packman 3 all day. Pretty pathetic I know. Maybe next week I'll try harder.

This weekend we took the kids to the fall festival

This weekend we took the kids to the fall festival
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Hello All

Hello all, I'm a little down tonight. Dealing with issues that I don't take lightly. .....sigh...... I guess that's all I have to say for now. Maybe some rest will help me see things clearer!

Tricked

I was going through some clothes today & found some that will fit Justus now but they need to be washed. So I threw them on the floor in the dirty clothes pile that I am supposed to work on today. Justus decided he wanted to try them on. So he put a few things over his head. So far that is as far as he can get on his own. A few minutes later I didn't hear him playing so I turned around to see what he was doing. Only he wasn't there. I called his name & up from the clothes pile rose my little ones face. He was camoflaged by all the clothes. He thought it was the funniest thing that he had surprised me. We both had a good laugh!