What-Shall-We-Give?

In theory, you would be able to see the whole screen here, but I am techno challenged. Feel free to chime in if you know how I can fix it...

Merry CHRISTmas!

To Explain...

the background, I added the song. Only 6 more days to go! Although I still have doll clothes to sew and an entire family picture calendar to make. I think I'd better go...

This Kind of a Day...

Yes, that's a flask-shaped bottle filled with hot chocolate. Hot chocolate made with mostly cream, a little milk and lots and lots of chocolate melted in. Recently my kids have started fighting with eachother. Really fighting. All the time. This has not gone well for me, especially since it coincided with Hadden just missing the deadline for Kindergarten this year, and growing a serious attitude. We begged the school to let him come early, they said no...more hot chocolate for me. And, just so you don't think I locked myself in the closet and drank the whole thing myself, which I certainly would do, but didn't happen to this time, I give you this...

Sad Halloween

Calla was an adorable butterfly for Halloween.

We didn't make it trick or treating because...

Hadden has some sort of flu. Who knows what it is, since he had BOTH flu shots. But, we are in the middle of the 4th day of fever, chest congestion, cough and loss of voice. He was the saddest 5 year old EVER when he didn't get to go trick or treating in his new policeman outfit. He has been watching movies and Reading Rainbow episodes in bed ever since. He likes the movies, the flu, not so much.

Hadden is 5!

The Magic Tree House Birthday Party. We used balloon bunches to make a "tree house" in the living room. We picked 5 books and made a game for each book. The kids were up in the tree house and then we spun the kids and turned on a fan and then took them downstairs to play a game based on that book.

Hadden getting wrapped up for the mummy race.


There go the mummies! Good thing we have a racetrack in our basement!



Presents. This particular present is a policmean outfit that has been worn almost non-stop since he opened it.

Family Dinner. Hadden wanted homemade macaroni and cheese and corn.

The ugliest birthday cake ever beheld. Hadden didn't care. It tasted yummy.

Ready for cake

Here Come the Candles

Yum!

Carpe Diem

We were driving around town on one of the million errands we ran today, and apropos of nothing, Hadden said: "Mommy, once a moment is over, it's gone forever." Carpe Diem, little dude.

We Are NOT Dead

What? You thought we died? I know it's been a long time, but summer is so short, we had to make the most of it. Here's what we were doing last night because it froze (cry, cry) and killed our pumpkin plants...

Hadden has been BEGGING for about 2 months now to pick his pumpking, so you can imagine the excitement (photo in top right) at actually getting to finally do this. Happy fall everyone.