dragonfly days

making a plan

Today I spent some time trying to make a plan and set some intentions for the year.  I didn't get far, three kids trying to fit as much as they possibly could in on the last day of Christmas break made sure of that.  Hopefully I will be ready to share my thoughts tomorrow.  I still just can't believe how fast this past year has gone. 

Today I received semi good news from my doc, as in I will probably not have to go back for a year. We still need to see the test results, but to me those were sweet words.

For now though, my new moleskine and I have a date. 

scenes from Christmas 12/26

So busy. So much fun. And so much to be thankful for.

Friday we rang the bell for  the Salvation Army.  This was such a neat experience. It is on the list already for next year. 

 

Jack taking a break for bell-ringing, singing and dancing.

The big kids got a big suprise on Christmas Eve. I love the pics of their faces.

It's not often we can pull a big surprise on them.

Jack decorated some gingerbread men for Santa.

Christmas morning.

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday. :)

December 1st 2010

Today's pics were all about gratitude. So in keeping with that I am thankful for:

• being able to get a good nights sleep last night, with the roosters boxed up.
• Zac tag teaming the carpooling situation today so I could spend some time at the Dicken's festival and not be rushed this afternoon.
• peppermint tea (above).
• the Christmas decorating being done. We scaled back this year, no one was really into the decorating except Jack. So he did the tree, I put up the stocking holders and a few table decorations and the rest went back out to the garage.
• Night time pediatrics and benadryl. Steven had a really weird allergy thing happen tonight. No one is quite sure what exactly happened. All from a few bites of spinach lasagna. :(
• Answers.  Jack's tooth is loose! He was being whiny while we were out today and I reached into his mouth and started to check teeth, sure enough one of the front one is getting pretty loose.

 

 

Jack made the candle today at the Dicken's festival. It was apparently one of the most exciting things that has happened to him in quite a while. While he was at drawing class today I had to run into Michaels so I picked up a candle holder for him to paint. As soon as we got home he went to work on it and by the time dinner came around it was ready to go.  Good thing I ordered beeswax yesterday! I see a lot of these in our future.