true to form, xander threw a bullet of a marshmallow, cassidy ate a few too many as she flitted around, and we all had a good laugh at the protective gear they found in the garage.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
the snowball fight tradition
true to form, xander threw a bullet of a marshmallow, cassidy ate a few too many as she flitted around, and we all had a good laugh at the protective gear they found in the garage.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
potd 12/26 - 1/2
well, it is sunday, for at least another 15 minutes...so i am on track with my goal to post more on my blog, and to have a picture of the day.
i actually started to get on my blog an hour ago, but sucked into 3 new blogs. one about organizing myself/house/kids/etc., and two about healthy eating for kids. wow, my brain is on overload. i want to do it all...but i know i can't do it all at once. i'll have to see if i can add this in. really good ideas, but will take a little bit of time to wrap my head around, then wrap my kids around, then actually accomplish it.
so, onto the POTD... okay, so some of them i couldn't do just one picture. i know, over achiever! i guess this will be another way i need to simplify my life!
since i will do pictures just for christmas (at some point in the near future) i'll start the day after.
12/26 - playing in the snow was a must today! thank you white christmas. we went to george & pam's to use their sled (really? they have a sled and they live in georgia? that's being prepared) and their hill.
12/27 - sadly, no pictures taken today. i think we stayed home...actually, we went to rachel's and had pizza with my parents. we watched tv, hung out, and ate too much!
12/28 - here it is...my entrance into my mid-30's. xander and cassidy made breakfast for me. xander made scrambled eggs and cassidy did the toast. later that night we had an "oreo" ice cream cake todd had whipped up. blowing out the candles was a great "mom" moment...as cassidy got to them first. and i added the picture of me looking at cassidy's hand-made card. both kids made their own.... cassidy's had something new and exciting, her first written word "MOM". and i love the nonchalant way x is standing next to me, with his hands in the pocket of his hoodie.
12/29 - i spent an hour or so getting ready for my night out with todd and my in-laws. they had big plans for our birthdays. turned out they took us to the varsity (always good for a "famous" hot dog) and then to atlantic station for a cirque du soliel show, "ovo". quite awesome. but no pictures of the night. anyway, while i was getting ready cassidy was working on her own toes. love the outfit, pink long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of xander's old baseball pants. (they were from his first season when he played on the marlins).
12/30 - today we went bowling with joanna & her kids. so cute, and so fun (except for the arcade games!) she has all those pictures. i'll have to get them from her.
12/31 - new year's eve. chinese food, movies at rachel's with her and my parents, counting down to midnight (look at his face, he is so excited!), and sparkling grape juice to toast a new year!
1/1/11 - the first day of the new year. what better way to celebrate than finally having the last night of hanukkah! our schedules got to busy and we never lit the candles for the final night. that and i had promised xander that we would have latkes when we did it. so thank you todd, for making us some "gentile" latkes, as we lit the candles one last time for this year. (okay, technically, since it is 2011 we'll be lighting them again this year. technically.)
and when i should have had my children go to bed at a decent hour, we stayed up to use cassidy's new Easy Bake Oven (merry christmas from rachel!) really, cassidy did a lot of the stirring and pouring, it wasn't just me playing with it. oh, and the dial on the front really doesn't work, but we had to test it out.
1/2/11 - sunday. 9 o'clock church. and dinner at the pett's. no pictures all day long, til i remembered i wanted to do this post and i needed a picture for today. so i grabbed the camera and went into x's room. he was supposed to be in bed. but instead he was at his desk, surrounded by his books and mp3 player, pencils and radio. just as he had organized it. and he was writing. the other night he wrote about the books "the diary of a wimpy kid" which he got for christmas and has been reading. he told me he wrote about them to make sure he didn't forget how to write (while he's been on vacation from school).
so, too long winded? too many pictures? too much writing? oh well. even if no one else reads it right now, i'll have it for later. yeah me!
i actually started to get on my blog an hour ago, but sucked into 3 new blogs. one about organizing myself/house/kids/etc., and two about healthy eating for kids. wow, my brain is on overload. i want to do it all...but i know i can't do it all at once. i'll have to see if i can add this in. really good ideas, but will take a little bit of time to wrap my head around, then wrap my kids around, then actually accomplish it.
so, onto the POTD... okay, so some of them i couldn't do just one picture. i know, over achiever! i guess this will be another way i need to simplify my life!
since i will do pictures just for christmas (at some point in the near future) i'll start the day after.
12/26 - playing in the snow was a must today! thank you white christmas. we went to george & pam's to use their sled (really? they have a sled and they live in georgia? that's being prepared) and their hill.
12/27 - sadly, no pictures taken today. i think we stayed home...actually, we went to rachel's and had pizza with my parents. we watched tv, hung out, and ate too much!12/28 - here it is...my entrance into my mid-30's. xander and cassidy made breakfast for me. xander made scrambled eggs and cassidy did the toast. later that night we had an "oreo" ice cream cake todd had whipped up. blowing out the candles was a great "mom" moment...as cassidy got to them first. and i added the picture of me looking at cassidy's hand-made card. both kids made their own.... cassidy's had something new and exciting, her first written word "MOM". and i love the nonchalant way x is standing next to me, with his hands in the pocket of his hoodie.
12/29 - i spent an hour or so getting ready for my night out with todd and my in-laws. they had big plans for our birthdays. turned out they took us to the varsity (always good for a "famous" hot dog) and then to atlantic station for a cirque du soliel show, "ovo". quite awesome. but no pictures of the night. anyway, while i was getting ready cassidy was working on her own toes. love the outfit, pink long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of xander's old baseball pants. (they were from his first season when he played on the marlins).
12/30 - today we went bowling with joanna & her kids. so cute, and so fun (except for the arcade games!) she has all those pictures. i'll have to get them from her.12/31 - new year's eve. chinese food, movies at rachel's with her and my parents, counting down to midnight (look at his face, he is so excited!), and sparkling grape juice to toast a new year!
1/1/11 - the first day of the new year. what better way to celebrate than finally having the last night of hanukkah! our schedules got to busy and we never lit the candles for the final night. that and i had promised xander that we would have latkes when we did it. so thank you todd, for making us some "gentile" latkes, as we lit the candles one last time for this year. (okay, technically, since it is 2011 we'll be lighting them again this year. technically.)and when i should have had my children go to bed at a decent hour, we stayed up to use cassidy's new Easy Bake Oven (merry christmas from rachel!) really, cassidy did a lot of the stirring and pouring, it wasn't just me playing with it. oh, and the dial on the front really doesn't work, but we had to test it out.
1/2/11 - sunday. 9 o'clock church. and dinner at the pett's. no pictures all day long, til i remembered i wanted to do this post and i needed a picture for today. so i grabbed the camera and went into x's room. he was supposed to be in bed. but instead he was at his desk, surrounded by his books and mp3 player, pencils and radio. just as he had organized it. and he was writing. the other night he wrote about the books "the diary of a wimpy kid" which he got for christmas and has been reading. he told me he wrote about them to make sure he didn't forget how to write (while he's been on vacation from school).
so, too long winded? too many pictures? too much writing? oh well. even if no one else reads it right now, i'll have it for later. yeah me!
Friday, December 31, 2010
here comes 2011
i wish i knew how to make my blog better. i've seen several blogs lately that have section headers, so there could be an "all about me" section, and a blog for personal, and a blog for "scrapbooking".
i'm going to need to figure this out. i have several blogs, but all in different places. would be nice to have them all from the same page. maybe?
that isn't why i came to type tonight. starting a new year, a new age (my age), a new semester at school....always helps me to contemplate my goals for the upcoming year, and reflect on the ones from the year before that i didn't accomplish.
so do i need to put those goals "out there" so i'll be held accountable? or will i just look like i fell flat on my face when i don't live up to the expectations i set for myself?
i have several, but i'll just mention a few...
POTD - picture of the day, take at least one picture everyday to capture LIFE
i really need to keep up with my blog. and i really want to document my life and all that happens with my family and my scrapbooking. i've tried keeping up with a picture a day before, and i didn't do so well. so, here we go, i'm trying again. a picture everyday, and blogging with the pictures on sunday afternoons! so check back on monday, and if i haven't done my blog post, start pestering me!
EXERCISING -
yes to lose weight, but also because i am happier when i do. doesn't mean i am always happy to do it, but that whole chemical balance thing...yup, it works. so something each day. yes, each day. doesn't have to be a full workout, but something scheduled in my planner each day!
PLANNED DINNERS -
i hate getting to 5 and coming up with something for dinner. sometimes i shrug it off to todd, cause he is so much better at putting ingredients together and "whipping something up" than i am. perhaps we'll do more crockpot recipes, or i'll get the meat started the night before, but something has got to change for this family who is too busy in the afternoon to figure it out after we get home from school.
and lastly
ORGANIZE -
a place for everything and everything in its place. i've been doing okay the last part of this year, going through closets and drawers and throwing things away. but i am far from being done. we won't mention the areas that need it the most, but basically, it is the same areas it has been before. in addition, i will make it a nightly ritual to get out the kids clothes for the next day, pack their bags and mine, start dinner (see above), and go through the file system i created to stay on top of bills, birthdays, and the like.
so? what do you think? do-able?
well, it is technically the last day of the year, so HAPPY NEW YEAR. i'll be back on sunday with pictures, cause that is one of my goals and i'll at least keep up with it the first week, right?
i'm going to need to figure this out. i have several blogs, but all in different places. would be nice to have them all from the same page. maybe?
that isn't why i came to type tonight. starting a new year, a new age (my age), a new semester at school....always helps me to contemplate my goals for the upcoming year, and reflect on the ones from the year before that i didn't accomplish.
so do i need to put those goals "out there" so i'll be held accountable? or will i just look like i fell flat on my face when i don't live up to the expectations i set for myself?
i have several, but i'll just mention a few...
POTD - picture of the day, take at least one picture everyday to capture LIFE
i really need to keep up with my blog. and i really want to document my life and all that happens with my family and my scrapbooking. i've tried keeping up with a picture a day before, and i didn't do so well. so, here we go, i'm trying again. a picture everyday, and blogging with the pictures on sunday afternoons! so check back on monday, and if i haven't done my blog post, start pestering me!
EXERCISING -
yes to lose weight, but also because i am happier when i do. doesn't mean i am always happy to do it, but that whole chemical balance thing...yup, it works. so something each day. yes, each day. doesn't have to be a full workout, but something scheduled in my planner each day!
PLANNED DINNERS -
i hate getting to 5 and coming up with something for dinner. sometimes i shrug it off to todd, cause he is so much better at putting ingredients together and "whipping something up" than i am. perhaps we'll do more crockpot recipes, or i'll get the meat started the night before, but something has got to change for this family who is too busy in the afternoon to figure it out after we get home from school.
and lastly
ORGANIZE -
a place for everything and everything in its place. i've been doing okay the last part of this year, going through closets and drawers and throwing things away. but i am far from being done. we won't mention the areas that need it the most, but basically, it is the same areas it has been before. in addition, i will make it a nightly ritual to get out the kids clothes for the next day, pack their bags and mine, start dinner (see above), and go through the file system i created to stay on top of bills, birthdays, and the like.
so? what do you think? do-able?
well, it is technically the last day of the year, so HAPPY NEW YEAR. i'll be back on sunday with pictures, cause that is one of my goals and i'll at least keep up with it the first week, right?
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
34th
yup, it s here. my mid-30’s.
don’t know if I’m ready for it.
kids made me breakfast, x made the eggs and c made the toast.
spent the afternoon roller skating with the whole fam (except for todd, who had to work.)
mcdonalds for lunch- this one for the kiddos.
a few attempts to get an [accurate] picture of myself on this day.
“on the border” for dinner – this one for me. way too much food! then home again for ice cream cake
so a whole day and I’m still not so sure.
don’t want to look like I’m a 34 year old mom and teacher…even though I am.
well here are some pictures from the day…
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
they say....
"i'm wearing 5 shirts, 5 pants and 2 pairs of socks on each foot!" - xander
"mom, does xander look fat in that stuff?" - cassidy
"not as fat as the sultan." - xander
after getting dressed in her 5 pairs of pants....
"now i'm fat like the sultan too!" - cassidy
(to explain, xander has been cast as the sultan from Aladdin in cassidy's dance studio's spring recital and we have to make him a costume to make him fat...)
"mom, does xander look fat in that stuff?" - cassidy
"not as fat as the sultan." - xander
after getting dressed in her 5 pairs of pants....
"now i'm fat like the sultan too!" - cassidy
(to explain, xander has been cast as the sultan from Aladdin in cassidy's dance studio's spring recital and we have to make him a costume to make him fat...)
Saturday, December 25, 2010
merry christmas
the 25 days of christmas...
last year i put together a scrapbook highlighting 25 things that happened from thanksgiving til after christmas.
i wanted to try again this year. i haven't blogged since thanksgiving, and then i didn't even blog about that day. but i did try to start putting the actual book together.
so here on christmas day i thought i'd put my list together. (in no particular order)
1. christmas caroling (wish i had a picture of this one) - we went caroling with the gormally girls! it was great. we sang "deck the halls", "joy to the world", "rudolph" and "we wish you a merry christmas". we sang at rachel's, the pett's, the crozier's/johnson's, the best's, and the platt's. but of course, before we started our rounds we went out to eat at mcdonald's!
2. making and decorating sugar cookies - wish i had taken a picture of the kids walking through the neighborhood with plates of cookies. but got pictures of making them!
3. rachel's surgery (she'll thank me i have a picture of this one)
4. mom & dad here (still no picture of them together!)
5. christmas eve @ george & pam's - as always, spoiled!
6. christmas day at home, rachel's and george & pam's - lots of pictures
7. the food of christmas - so much food! cookies, pumpkin bread, pies, pretzel candies, and then the food of christmas eve and christmas day. my brothers and sister-in-law outdo themselves each year
8. wrapping presents - not enough pictures of this one. but we had it done before christmas! really!
9. xander painting cassidy's present
10. decorating the christmas tree - we started putting up the tree Thanksgiving night and decorating just a few days later. i was so busy with my master's course that i missed todd and the kids doing most of it, but i joined in at the very end and took pictures of todd putting up the star.
11. elf on the shelf - this is the first year the elf has visited our house. i've heard of the elf and the book, but it was kind of pricey to buy, so i have never invested. this year i looked it up on the internet. turns out the elf looks just like the two that my parents had in our house when i was growing up. i told the kids about it at dinner one night. xander's comment was "did you touch it?" "yes, everytime we set it out them out for decoration." "oh no! you made him lose his magic!" evidentally you can not touch the elves, or they won't work. each day the elf sits in your house and watches you. then at night he leaves, reports back to santa at the north pole. while we sat at dinner that night i called my mom, "mom, do you remember the two elves that we used to put on our organ for decoration....did you know that they were magic elves? all that time they were reporting back to santa! do you think you could bring an elf to us when you come visit?" each day we'd wake up and try to find where the elf was, because he'd have moved to a different place in the house.
12. cassidy's performance @ lake lanier islands - so cute. she did great. she loves dancing. and even commented the other day when listening to the nutcracker music "i love this ballet music".
13. christmas cards - finally finished them this year and got them sent out on the 23-24th! yeah me!
14. attempt at gingerbread houses - we started a box set of gingerbread house that we have had for at least a year, if not longer. the candy was skimpy and the frosting wasn't setting fast enough. so we put it aside for the night. we never got back to it. then, at school i do a gingerbread house decorating party at the end of gingerbread week. it is our "holiday" party. i had extra houses, so i brought them home with extra candy and frosting. but the kids never wanted to do them, so they stayed undecorated the whole time
15. countdown blocks & advents - love these! and so do the kids
16. music -every day, all day
17. sitting on santa's lap - i don't have a picture of us visiting santa at the mall, or when we ran into santa and mrs. claus at kroger when they were buying candy canes. but i did get a picture of cassidy sitting on santa xander's lap telling him what she wants for christmas.
18. hanukkah - each year i get out the menorah and try to do each of the 8 nights. we even did hanukkah with the missionaries here. the kids loved it. we were really close to doing all 8 nights this year. but we haven't done the last night yet because xander wanted latkes when we did the final night, and we haven't had a night that we could put them together. so the menorah is still out, and it is in the middle of the nativity scene. xander asked on christmas eve..."mom, do you think that santa will be confused when he comes down the chimney and see the menorah?"
some of his other comments have been "Mom, do you think we are the only ones who celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah?" at school he was doing an activity with the teacher during class party (so I was there) and the teacher said something to another child about being half-elf by the way he was coloring his activity. Xander's comment was, pointing to me "She's half Jewish." and then pointing to mom (who was already here visiting) "And she's all Jewish!"and the best... "WHAT! Jesus was a Jew? Did he celebrate Hanukkah?"
19. reindeer food & cookies for santa - must take care of them. left reindeer on the lawn christmas eve night. when we saw santa at the mall he specifically told us he loved homemade chocolate chip cookies, and if we didn't have milk his next favorite drink is coca-cola. so that is what he got.
20. family photo - we didn't get it done until the monday before, but did it and sent it out with my christmas cards
21. snow on christmas day - for the first time in over 100 years, snow on christmas day and it stuck! looks like we got 2 inches, and 1:00 church has already been canceled for tomorrow.
22. hand-made ornaments, calendars & shopping plan of attack - projects i made for tombow, but used for myself and presents
23. wish lists & list of presents received -working on this one! but when we went to visit santa at the mall there was no one in line behind us, so he took the time to read the kid's wish lists that we had brought to drop in his mail box. when he was done he told the kids he'd hold onto their letters. on christmas morning, next to the plate that had his cookies and carrots were the kid's letters, signed "Love Santa"! amazing!
24. marshmallow fight -it hasn't happened yet, but it we'll host our annual take down the tree marshmallow fight, to make it not so sad.
25. my birthday - this hasn't happened yet either, but 3 more days of being 33
oops, one more.
26. pj's - love opening new pj's on christmas eve.
time to get to work on it!
merry christmas 2010!
last year i put together a scrapbook highlighting 25 things that happened from thanksgiving til after christmas.
i wanted to try again this year. i haven't blogged since thanksgiving, and then i didn't even blog about that day. but i did try to start putting the actual book together.
so here on christmas day i thought i'd put my list together. (in no particular order)
1. christmas caroling (wish i had a picture of this one) - we went caroling with the gormally girls! it was great. we sang "deck the halls", "joy to the world", "rudolph" and "we wish you a merry christmas". we sang at rachel's, the pett's, the crozier's/johnson's, the best's, and the platt's. but of course, before we started our rounds we went out to eat at mcdonald's!
2. making and decorating sugar cookies - wish i had taken a picture of the kids walking through the neighborhood with plates of cookies. but got pictures of making them!
3. rachel's surgery (she'll thank me i have a picture of this one)
4. mom & dad here (still no picture of them together!)
5. christmas eve @ george & pam's - as always, spoiled!
6. christmas day at home, rachel's and george & pam's - lots of pictures
7. the food of christmas - so much food! cookies, pumpkin bread, pies, pretzel candies, and then the food of christmas eve and christmas day. my brothers and sister-in-law outdo themselves each year
8. wrapping presents - not enough pictures of this one. but we had it done before christmas! really!
9. xander painting cassidy's present
10. decorating the christmas tree - we started putting up the tree Thanksgiving night and decorating just a few days later. i was so busy with my master's course that i missed todd and the kids doing most of it, but i joined in at the very end and took pictures of todd putting up the star.
11. elf on the shelf - this is the first year the elf has visited our house. i've heard of the elf and the book, but it was kind of pricey to buy, so i have never invested. this year i looked it up on the internet. turns out the elf looks just like the two that my parents had in our house when i was growing up. i told the kids about it at dinner one night. xander's comment was "did you touch it?" "yes, everytime we set it out them out for decoration." "oh no! you made him lose his magic!" evidentally you can not touch the elves, or they won't work. each day the elf sits in your house and watches you. then at night he leaves, reports back to santa at the north pole. while we sat at dinner that night i called my mom, "mom, do you remember the two elves that we used to put on our organ for decoration....did you know that they were magic elves? all that time they were reporting back to santa! do you think you could bring an elf to us when you come visit?" each day we'd wake up and try to find where the elf was, because he'd have moved to a different place in the house.
12. cassidy's performance @ lake lanier islands - so cute. she did great. she loves dancing. and even commented the other day when listening to the nutcracker music "i love this ballet music".
13. christmas cards - finally finished them this year and got them sent out on the 23-24th! yeah me!
14. attempt at gingerbread houses - we started a box set of gingerbread house that we have had for at least a year, if not longer. the candy was skimpy and the frosting wasn't setting fast enough. so we put it aside for the night. we never got back to it. then, at school i do a gingerbread house decorating party at the end of gingerbread week. it is our "holiday" party. i had extra houses, so i brought them home with extra candy and frosting. but the kids never wanted to do them, so they stayed undecorated the whole time
15. countdown blocks & advents - love these! and so do the kids
16. music -every day, all day
17. sitting on santa's lap - i don't have a picture of us visiting santa at the mall, or when we ran into santa and mrs. claus at kroger when they were buying candy canes. but i did get a picture of cassidy sitting on santa xander's lap telling him what she wants for christmas.
18. hanukkah - each year i get out the menorah and try to do each of the 8 nights. we even did hanukkah with the missionaries here. the kids loved it. we were really close to doing all 8 nights this year. but we haven't done the last night yet because xander wanted latkes when we did the final night, and we haven't had a night that we could put them together. so the menorah is still out, and it is in the middle of the nativity scene. xander asked on christmas eve..."mom, do you think that santa will be confused when he comes down the chimney and see the menorah?"
some of his other comments have been "Mom, do you think we are the only ones who celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah?" at school he was doing an activity with the teacher during class party (so I was there) and the teacher said something to another child about being half-elf by the way he was coloring his activity. Xander's comment was, pointing to me "She's half Jewish." and then pointing to mom (who was already here visiting) "And she's all Jewish!"and the best... "WHAT! Jesus was a Jew? Did he celebrate Hanukkah?"
19. reindeer food & cookies for santa - must take care of them. left reindeer on the lawn christmas eve night. when we saw santa at the mall he specifically told us he loved homemade chocolate chip cookies, and if we didn't have milk his next favorite drink is coca-cola. so that is what he got.
20. family photo - we didn't get it done until the monday before, but did it and sent it out with my christmas cards
21. snow on christmas day - for the first time in over 100 years, snow on christmas day and it stuck! looks like we got 2 inches, and 1:00 church has already been canceled for tomorrow.
22. hand-made ornaments, calendars & shopping plan of attack - projects i made for tombow, but used for myself and presents
23. wish lists & list of presents received -working on this one! but when we went to visit santa at the mall there was no one in line behind us, so he took the time to read the kid's wish lists that we had brought to drop in his mail box. when he was done he told the kids he'd hold onto their letters. on christmas morning, next to the plate that had his cookies and carrots were the kid's letters, signed "Love Santa"! amazing!
24. marshmallow fight -it hasn't happened yet, but it we'll host our annual take down the tree marshmallow fight, to make it not so sad.
25. my birthday - this hasn't happened yet either, but 3 more days of being 33
oops, one more.
26. pj's - love opening new pj's on christmas eve.
time to get to work on it!
merry christmas 2010!
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