On Sunday after church, we spontaneously decided to run into town and have a visit with Santa. Josh thought I was crazy for braving a weekend at the mall, but I was crossing my fingers for an easy adventure. Much to my delight, we found a parking spot right next to the door and there was nobody in line when we got to Santa's village! Sophie immediately started crying as soon as she saw him and was yelling about not sitting in his lap. Man, I love this part of Christmas! Y'all know I don't really want my children to cry or be unhappy, right? I just think the crying Santa photos are so stinking cute! She did eventually give him a high-five and tell him what she wanted for Christmas (a blue bicycle and a purple umbrella), but still wasn't happy about sitting with him. Ella, on the other hand, ...
12 Days of Elf Antics
A friend shared this post on Facebook right after Thanksgiving and it made me laugh so hard. The funny part is that I am so torn about how I feel about the whole thing. I have zero desire to have our sweet little elf create a mess that I'm required to clean up. I don't want his antics to take any sort of significant amount of time or energy on my part to execute at night before bed. I didn't want to feel bad when I inevitably forgot that he needed to travel home one night, because I was sure that it would happen and I would be forced to explain why he was hanging out in the same spot for another day. The other part of me knows how my children look forward to this. The first thing Ella says every morning in December is "Where is Scout? Have you seen him yet?!" I'm trying to create the best ...
Project 365: Week 49
12/2: Naps. That is all we managed to accomplish last Sunday after church. We were exhausted from the football party the night before (Roll Tide!) and their failure to take a nap. Despite how tired they were, they couldn't shut it off, so SD separated them and this little slept on the couch. They slept through Mission Friends that night, so I went to church solo and left them all at home. I also got a text at 8:50 begging for a milkshake, so I rushed home from choir practice and managed to sneak it and grab drinks before they closed. THIS is what my counter looked like before bed on Sunday night. A week's worth of styrofoam cups had accumulated. 12/3: My 5 year anniversary at work brought this bouquet of 15 roses and eucalyptus. Not only was it pretty, but it smelled like heaven! ...
Project 365: Week 48
11/25: We finally started getting our Christmas on and put up this pretty tree in the girls room. 11/26: On Monday after school, we added a small white tree to the playroom and filled it with Barbie ornaments. My aunt has been buying me one every year since Hallmark put them out and has started buying the girls Holiday Barbie and Ballerina Barbie ornaments, too. We had enough this year to fill a whole tree! 11/27: I finally finished the third book in the Matched series by Ally Condie. If you loved Hunger Games, you will love these. They are also dystopian YA fiction, but are more love, less violence. 11/28: I had choir practice on Wednesday night instead of Bible Study since we're getting ready for our musical and was so tired by the time I got home that I crashed without even watching ...
Project 365: Week 47 // Weekend Update
11/18: Josh was still sporting his ridiculous mustache. In case you aren't friends with either of us on Facebook, this one deserves a story. He had a full beard for no-shave November and decided he couldn't take it. He shaved everything but the mustache on Saturday night as a joke, but I had too extreme of a reaction that he decided to keep it and drive me crazy. Finally on Tuesday, I pitched a royal birthday-girl and some tears were involved (I'm not proud of that) and he gave up. He knew how obnoxious it was, but he loves to embarrass himself and anyone around him and thinks it's funny that other people might have taken the stache seriously. 11/20: My 33rd birthday, even though I spent most of the day thinking it was my 34th. I wore this super cute new F21 sweater to work and then ...
October Revisited
So, it's December 4th and I haven't really blogged since mid-October. Sure, there have been some P365/weekly updates and a few "thankful" posts, but you don't even know how my children dressed up for Halloween! I figured before we could move on into the holiday season, I needed to at least mention the end of October, right? I decided to go the easy route with pumpkins this year. For whatever reason, I'm struggling to keep up in all areas of parenting / creativity / holidays, etc. We didn't make it to the pumpkin patch and I just couldn't force myself to carve pumpkins. I know, I'm a Scrooge. I asked the girls how they felt about painting pumpkins and they were pretty enthusiastic. Aside from the acrylic paint that won't come out of my wool rug, I'll count it a success. We even managed to ...
thanksgiving
We watched this video at church on Sunday and it made me giggle. Then it made me so thankful for my family and the opportunity we have to live life together. via ...
thankful
I'm thankful that yesterday I had over 100 wishes / messages / emails / phone calls / hugs / songs to celebrate my birthday. I'm thankful that when I walked in the back door Sophie yelled "It's YOU birthday!" and did a little jig. I'm thankful that my mom made my most favorite dinner and that I got some pretty special gifts. I'm thankful that Ella monopolized the dinner conversation as usual. I'm thankful that I'm really only 33, even though I spent the entire day thinking I was 34. I'm thankful that I left my parents' house with a to-go plate for lunch today, may the carb-fest never end! I'm thankful that I came home with my precious family to our little rock house. I'm thankful that no matter how high the thermostat reads, it's always a little chilly in the fall and winter. I'm thankful ...