Christmas Creations

Apple pie jam and oatmeal pancake mix....all packaged and ready to go!! 12 more gifts done!

The sweetest thing

My 5 year old announced as she climbed into the truck after preschool today that she knew what she wanted for Christmas!

3 Mommy's and 2 Daddies.


More Mommy's to do all the work and one Daddy to send to work all the time. That would leave you Mom and Dad with nothing to do but play and have fun with me.

How sweet is THAT!?!?!?!

More on the cake.

The idea for the cake came from my good friend Camille and wonderous internet searching abilities. (she also found me a great white sweater last night on e bay...and I won it! thanks Cam!!)

One look at the model and G was SOLD! Monkey cake for her birthday it was.

The ears are doughnuts if that doesn't make it just the bomb.

Hubby came to the rescue with it however. You did have to "paint" a kidney shaped pink mouth with frosting. There was simply no way I was going to be able to make this straight. I roll the paint....he trims. So, it was a joint effort. He did a great job don't you think?

I am responsible for the taste, cupcakes and eyes. The rest was all Daddy! :)

There's a 3 year old in the house!!

Here she is!


We had a great day and did all that she requested. We went swiming in the afternoon. I have no pictures of that as having spent another wad on a new camera I've turned super paranoid and won't take it near water. I'll hopefull get over that. She had a blast there.

We came home and had pizza and salad as requested. Then opened gifts.

She got many nice things. One thing we gave her was the above scooter. She loves it. Good job Mom and Dad!!


So, we knocked out favorite sporting activity....swiming....pizza supper...with yellow tablecloth and balloons all over. All we needed was to end the night with Monkey cake. Thanks to Dad...we totally rocked that!!

Happier Endings

Son got more angry...got sent to room....for hours....later came out on his own accord and gave me a hug goodnight....and later when I went back to check on the troops...discovered he cleaned his room. Preteens make NO SENSE!!

So...playing with new camera...I think this one will work for my low light house!! :)

Conversation with J over art project an hour ago he was excited to complete....

J: MY TEACHER IS A STUPID IDIOT!!

Me: Why? What happened?

J: Loud voice reexplains assignment (which to me sounds exactly like what he explained before)

Me: Sounds like the assignment is what you explained to me before, but you where fine about it before, what changed?

J: YOUR NOT LISTENING!!! UGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

Me: I'm trying, please tell me what changed

J: AHHHUUUUUGGGGGGG!!!!! Stomping out of the room

and so it goes.

Ta-Da

I did it.

30 days of ramble.

I think perhaps next year I could plan a little better or something. But this kind of activity jumpstarts a person a bit. I should post more otherwise what is the point of having a blog right?

I should also have something fabulous to end the month with. But I don't. I ran and did things non stop today from 6:30 until now when I sat down at 9pm. We didnt' even get home from running around until a bit after 8. The girls were exhausted doing that coming off a holiday weekend.

J started wrestling season today. He was shot too....went straight to bed after having oatmeal for snack. I remember why I like wrestling season now.

I think I"m going to have ice cream now. MIL is trying to convince me to do weight watchers with her in January. I should. So ice cream tonight it is.

Enough ramble for November. See you next month.