Happy New Year!

(Notice that Jordan is following my habit of covering her baby's eyes. ROFL!!)

The Christmas Card that Never Was

I have not sent real snail mail Christmas cards in years. I usually do the whole e-mail card with a picture of the kids. That's all family wants anyway... a picture of the kids. Well this year I took the pictures and started tinkering around with my card maker program, but just never finished. Anyway, here is the one I took for the blog. You can consider it your belated Merry Christmas card. LOL!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Favorite What?!?!

WARNING! Do Not read this post if you are offended by the use of names representing female anatomy!




We were out grocery shopping and the kids were in the back seat waiting and playing a memory game of "What's Your Favorite...?" They were discussing colors, music and foods. My 6 yr old foster daughter said in answering favorite food that she liked, "Vagina"  The boys moaned with disgust; the 12 year old goes into the "We don't talk inappropriate" speech and the 6 year old looks confused. She says, "But I like vagina; it's my fav-wit"  I ask her to describe it and she says it has noodles, cheese and "veg-tupples." I realize she is trying to say, "lasagna" and she says with the brightest smile, "Yes!!! Vagina!"

Uhhhh, yeah.

Easy Chains and Tough Pinata!

Every years we do the simple, yet surprisingly beloved activity of making paper chains. I am always amazed that they want to do this every year and still like to do them.

We put up our little "Cha*rlie Br*wn" tree and decorated the house. We have yet to decorate the tree; for now there are 3 gingerbread men on there. They smell sooooooo good.

The pinata.

 Let's just say it was not going to give up the candy without a fight. That little paper bag was so difficult to break. I kept putting starter holes in it and they kept whacking it, but it would not break. I finally had to puncture it all around and still ended up having to rip it more to get the rest of the candy out. It was a mad dash to the floor and I had to crack up because after all the candy had been gathered, there were stickers and other small trinkets left on the floor. No rush to claim those. Ha Ha ha! But the candy was clutched tight!

It was a fun, peaceful day. Our church Christmas program is tomorrow and then we have 3 more days of school before a short break.

Fashion Week

The Princess (aka, 7th grade, aka, Jordan) has a new hobby. It's cheap and keeps her happy (which keeps mommy happy!)

Princess Puppy

SNOW DAY!!!

So pretty much every school in my state was closed today. My 7th grader was watching the closing crawler across the television screen last night as if there was some kind of prize forthcoming. Then she went to get a piece of tape to write our school name on it so that she could tape it to the t.v. LOL! Most of the time I don't pay attention to public school snow days, but every once in a while we do. So they took today off, except 3rd grade, who worked for a couple of hours.

Jordan is very appreciative to everyone who responded to her personal need closet that she is starting. She is very excited and we will have our first distribution soon.

Peace