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Happy Birthday

What a fantastic Friday.
Our baby boy turns 2 today.

Happy Birthday! Let's Party!

 

Merry Christmas

 

Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

 

 

 

KIDZ TAKEOVER THE BLOG 4 CHRISTMAS!!!

Day1: Diva Daughter

Hi everybody.  Well, I want to talk about my classroom Christmas party.
We made a blanket to donate to our local Children's hospital. We made our blanket by tying rectangle felt pieces in knots and putting them all together. We also made Christmas tree sugar cookies. I liked frosting mine with butterscotch frosting and adding every kind of sprinkle. We played Christmas BINGO and made candy cane ornaments.

Momme really liked the snowman gift I made her and Dad in school.

Isn't it cool! Let me tell you how we made it...
First we got a 'clean store bought sock', put two cups of rice in the bottom, then added 'stuffing the ribbed part', pick out buttons and add the googly eyes, then we umm added the nose and stuck a pom-pom on his head and our teacher glue gunned it together. My teacher is really awesome!
We are really getting into the Christmas spirit at home too. Momme and I delivered our neighbors some Christmas cards and we mailed some too. When we got home everyone got to wrap their Secret Santa gifts and we hid them til Christmas Eve. My big sister is still trying to find out who's secret santa I am so I keep having to change my hiding spot. My Dad was too, but I made him pinkie promise to stop snooping around my room.

Well that's all I want to blog about for now. Subscribe to our blog and read it tomorroẅ, my kid brother is taking over and I know you can't wait to see what he blogs about. Bye.

Secret Santas

This year we each are playing Secret Santa to another person in our family. When I was growing up we did something similar with the ENTIRE extended family on Christmas Eve. I thought it would be so much fun to try it in our house this year. I'm the only one who knows who is who's "Santa". Which means I know Baby Girl is my Santa but I'm leaving that shopping trip to her and Daddy. As of today, so far so good, no one has squealed who's Santa they are. 

We really wanted to teach the kids more about giving and the love behind a GOOD Gift. It was clear our summer vacation had confused our children, they must have forgotten we aren't financially rich....not yet at least. The Christmas consumerism had invaded our house like an extraterrestrial takeover. There were advertisements for plastic toys made overseas everywhere. I was up to my ears in catalogs and Christmas lists as long as my arm. And all the talk about a jolly mystery man in a big red suit who supplies all the presents 'ANYWAY'. 

Now I thought they understood that money doesn't grow on trees and Santa is just a representation....'yeah, yeah Mom' *clears throat..."Christmas is all about the gift of Baby Jesus to the world" *in his best Easter speech voice. Now can I have these twenty six gifts I circled? SMH. 

We thought the best way for them to REALLY Get IT was to see the joy in one another's faces and know that THEY (Momme & Daddy, Family, friends etc) made those feelings of joy possible. To not ask for every toy in the catalog or on tv because the person who pulled their name from the hat may not be able to buy them EVERYTHING they think they want. 

As shoppers I think the older girls really SEE how the right present can make a person feel good. Can make a person look at things differently or have a renewed enthusiasm. They also saw how things begin to add up and learned a little lesson on "sales tax". When we shopped we shopped with purpose, to fulfill something within for the person they were playing Santa to. 

We'll start wrapping gifts this weekend and then we'll shop our local DollarTree & Learning store for stocking stuffers. I'm not quite sure how we're going to pull this off without everyone blabbing what they wrapped up while they were Santa. It's already taking poor five year old PacMan everything he has not to tell his arch nemesis and best-ist sister ever that he is her Santa...wait til he gets a load of her presents ....wha-ha-ha! 

I'm about to burst at the seams just thinking about their excitement. I can already feel the LOVE. This is going to be an AWESOME Christmas. 

Oh Christmas tree...

Our Christmas tree

 thus far..

 

..we still haven't dug the ornaments out the garage.

 

We kinda like it like this this year.

 

If we fish them out, I'll repost.

 

I'm planning some Christmas Eve crafts and shenanigans...so we may make some ornaments then.

 

I found a bunch of super cute crafts on Pinterest---> follow me.

 

If you read my winter ramblings post you know I also put a small tree upstairs this year.

 

 

It was in the hall but BabyGirl lost her night lights...

 

and it turns out, Christmas trees make great night lights.

 

Now all the kids want a tree in their room.

 

SMH.

 

I'm going to hunt for some small ones during after Christmas clearance sales.

There's that Marshmellow Mom behavior again, lol.

 

Well, Happy Saturday everyone. Please feel free to comment or subscribe to our blog.

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

Momme's Favorite Christmas Things

My favorite Christmas movie:
A Christmas Story

My favorite modern Christmas song:
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You"

My favorite classic Christmas song:
Silent Night

Favorite Christmas Carol:
12 Days of Christmas

Favorite Christmas Dessert:
German Chocolate Cake

Favorite Christmas Pastime:
Falling asleep under the tree on Christmas morning

Favorite Christmas tradition:
Choosing & Decorating the tree

Momme's other
Favorite Things for Winter:

• eos lip balm
• laura mercier tinted moisturizer
• a good humidifier
• Lands End outerwear for the family
• Duraflame Safe Touch electric fireplace

 

Märshmellow Mom

It's official. I am that mom.

The mom whose kids (the two youngest) run all over her. 

I'm the marshmellow mom. 

I didn't realize it until today.

Today, when I found my twin, my twin marshmellow mom.

I pointed her out right away. Smiling hello,

trying to not to laugh out loud

and then I felt like a mime looking in a mirror.

My kids got started.

I couldn't speak, our every action was identical.

The need to establish structure, the soft and sweet reminders to behave

followed by the frazzled laugh and the nervous empty threat.

All classic marshmellow mom behavior. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

I try to be stern and structured and they rebel.

What happened to me?

Or have I always been this way?

The three oldest don't give me this trouble.

Or did they?

The gruesome twosome.

Our two I mean our one year and 347 days old son

and our four year old daughter.

Their behavior is a bit notorious in our family.

They laugh in the face of time outs and quiet corners.

They have ART ANYWHERE ANYTIME! Grrrrr.

Snack time brings out their inner Viking.

What's a mom to do?...they're so darn cute.