So, no heat for us today. Or rather, we have replaced a part that will temporarily allow us a bit of heat, but at much lower temps than we are used to…because another part is broken, which made the “engine” (for lack of better word) of the heater overheat…and that could break any time now. Unfortunately, everyone up to and including the company that makes the heater seems to be out of that particular part, so who knows when it can be fixed. Oh the joy. Fortunately, the children and I are blanket hoarders.
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Actual kid conversation at breakfast: B: “Sometimes being smart bums me out.” Me: “For example?” B: “Rainbows. They’re supposed to be all magic and cool, but I know they’re really refracted light.” D: “Yeah, science ruins magic.” Me: “But sometimes science lets you see so far down into things that you find more magic!” Them: *silence*
Rose is addicted to Greg’s green Monster’s Inc. socks. Just like a kid with a thousand toys, she carries ordinary things around and tries to play with them.
I couldn’t find my other shoe this morning (of any pair — Rose keeps running off with them) and it’s too cold for bare feet. David shouts to me from the other room “You only need one shoe to put the pedal to the metal, Mom!”
I was talking about one of my Christmas presents, a writer’s toolbox, and telling them that we’d play with it later. Two kids were interested in doing it while the third said “I have a great idea! You write the stories and I will sell them for you!”
Woke up with a migraine, accident prone, and missing the necessary ingredients to make muffins. Decided to go back to bed. Woke up, continued to be all of the above, and declared it Laze Around and Fend For Yourself Day. The children cheered and ran to the Tardis.
First day of the new year was spent being sick, cleaning the house from the last several months of on-the-run living, and watching movies with my littlies while the two biggest males played Ticket to Ride.
Honestly, I’ve been carrying this candle around room to room with me because it is helping me breathe. Go to Essentiallynaked.com and get the Rosemary Mint or Woodland candle. They are both wonderful! (And I don’t know which one I’ve been carrying around because I took both lids off at once and the kids moved them.)
We were all a little under the weather for New Years Eve this year. We were tired, the parties we wanted to go to were far off, and to be honest, home sounded really good this year…
Setting off some small fireworks to get the night started.I threw the party together in about 45 minutes. I started with a run to the dollar store for supplies: small little doodads for goodie bags, a fresh glue stick, some ribbon, and some discounted glittery balls for the Photo Booth…
Some of our New Years Eve goodies.I made some treat bags with paper lunch sacks (we have to get a whole bag every year for school and end up using three) clocks downloaded from the internet, and lots of fun!
The garland we made last week at Grandma’s house is now complete!
Opening the first goodie bag of the night.We were going to use some Photo Booth supplies I’d picked up ages ago at Wal-mart, but when I couldn’t find them, Nick reminded me that I’d donated them to a church pre-teen event (I never saw photos from that, btw!)
Our own little Photo Booth.
We loved glittering up these photo booth props. (We found them online and cut them out ourselves.)
David said I couldn’t post this to facebook, but he never said I couldn’t post it on my blog! Bwahaha!
Trying out the photo booth myself.
Nick said he was watching football, butslept through most of the evening.
We loved the sentiment this sign displayed, so we printed one of our own.
All our snacks came from a Christmas present from Grandma
Another hour, another goodie bag.Even with hourly goodie bags, the evening dragged on, so we watched Harry Potter while we waited for the countdown.
Movie watching time!Finally it’s time for the big countdown!
The end of the evening and the last of the mini fireworks.Took the kids to see “Frozen” this afternoon, so all you people I’ve shushed can now talk to me about the movie. It was delightful! So delightful, in fact, that Greg asked to watch it again the minute it was over. Or to go buy it on “cd.” When I said those were not options, he asked if we could at least sing the songs. And he has been. All afternoon and into the night.
Lisa Holcomb 