Snow day #1

The kids were thrilled yesterday to get their first snow day of the year.  They would have preferred another today,  but I was thrilled with just a 2 hour delay.  Sorry,  but my living room got way too messy yesterday while they watched a little bit too much TV.  Sadly I had planned to spend the whole day sewing a curtain order.

Congratulations go to Emily for being an awesome snow shoveler!  I finished the job after she left for school.  I adore our giant yellow snow shovel,  but it is still a decent workout! Especially at the bottom of the drive.  Ugh.  That stuff has got to be double if not triple the weight of everything else!

Domestic goddess

I had a moment of pure brilliance driving home from the dr with Sydney. We stopped at the grocery store and I asked her what sorts of fun things we needed to get so lunches were not a giant complaint filled suck fest,  and she pointed out Lunchables (which I loathe cause they are icky).  So I was able to convince her to grab pepperoni and cheese and a bag of premixed dough along with some other fun yummy items to make our own. We went home, divided up the dough into 18 little rounds and baked them.  After we did bedtime I grabbed the kids quickly and asked who was buying lunch,  Josh wanted to buy until he saw the awesomeness of Sydney's lunch! 

Pizza, sauce, cheese, and pepperoni and inside a handy reusable container. She gleefully got her lunch ready!  Yeah for making my morning a tiny bit better tomorrow.  Now to finish the laundry so we have her favorite outfit! We didn't get her hair brushed so it will probably be exciting in the morning.

Good times! 

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas setup mayhem

So the pre-lit tree setup this year has been delightful!  We pulled it out,  set it all up and plugged it in.  Most of the tree wasn't lit.  Karl spent several hours down in the floor with a multimeter and got one strand mostly happy.

 I jiggled a plug and the top portion popped on,  but still left with a chunk gone.  It was after 11pm,  so we found 3 strands of working white lights and flung them up on the tree.  It is far from perfect,  but for tonight it'll do. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a strand of colored ones to help it blend in.

I added some of the first round of ornaments when Karl yelped for help.

 He was trying to fix the glasses Emily had just broken in the center, snapping them in half, and managed to glue his fingers together when the super glue exploded.  I got him freed with 100% acetone, and he is back working on repairs.

 After he patches the glasses,  he is going to fix the broken stocking hanger, and the 4 broken pieces on the Christmas village.  These are definitely first world problems,  and I'm going to stop complaining now!

Soapy fail

A gallon of laundry detergent spilled on the floor is nasty business.  After a quick google search I am opting for the kitty litter method.  Sadly it is under the machine.  No clue how to best get that out without pulling it out which I'm not gonna do.  Argh. Welcome to Monday.  And what do I do with the towels I stared soaking up all this mess!  They are gonna be fun to put through the machine.

Let it Snow!

First snowfall equals cocoa, marshmallows and homemade cookies!

Josh just now-"I need ice to cool ym hot cocoa down.  Wait,  is it supposed to be hot?"

Awesome Halloween costumes

Despite the fact that Karl seems to utterly  dislike Halloween,  I absolutely adore it!  I love costumes,  as long as they are creative and/or adorable.  We don't do scary at my house.

So this year I made the girls their choice of costumes, a vampire for Sydney, and Mavis from Hotel Transylvania for Emily.  She was a vampire mid way into turning into her bat self.

Josh wanted to be Bumblebee the transformer so I bought his.  I had grand plans to make hima transforming car costume, but reality kicked in and I scraped that idea.

I was Snow White, from theTV show Once Upon a Time.  No one got my costume, but I think everyone should wear a cape and awesome boots.  It's very fun!

We actually carved real pumpkins this year. Um,  ewwwwwww! Pumpkin guts are nasty!  But it was fun to use a chisel on a pumpkin.