i've been a little behind on the blogging as somebody *coughbevcough* pointed out tonight! so i think i'll do a catch up post.
First off...We had a very low key and relaxed Thanksgiving at my inlaw's home. The Monday after Thanksgiving I had to have a bone graft around one of my dental implants! Such fun! My mamaw came to stay for a few days to help out with the girls! It was so awesome having her here! It a time/situation when my mom would've been here for me so it was so great that mamaw came to be with us!
I've shut the Maddie and Rose shop down for the holidays. I'll open back up after the first of the year! I needed to time for our family and not worry about filling orders and making sure everything was shipped in time etc. I'm working on some new items and hopefully I'll have them up shortly after the new year!
For the past two years I've done a December Daily...which means I did a scrapbook page(s) each day of December. I started in 2008 (you can see that album HERE) because that was our last Christmas as a family of three. And of course I did it last year (see the album HERE) since that was our first Christmas with Maddie. Here we are and it's day 7 of December I haven't done a single layout! Yikes!! I'm behind! But I've decided to blog each week and then after the holidays I'll catch up and do the layouts. I've got so many things going on with parties and events as well as making gifts that I just want to enjoy my month doing the things we want to do and not having to make sure I don't miss a day of scrapbooking. Granted I do it digitally, but sometimes I just run out of time! So this year I'll do it differently!
Here are the first few days of December.
Day 1 of December!
Madelynn and I took Mamaw out to Canton to meet my dad and papaw for lunch. Madelynn thoroughly enjoyed Dad and Papaw's attention all to herself!
She and Papaw played peek-a-boo before we left!
Day 2
Madelynn is having a very difficult time staying away from the Christmas tree. She likes to yank...literally yank ornaments off the tree.
Day 3
This was our snack week for Nora's class. They were doing Sailor Sam in their High Hat program. So I chose all 'S' snacks to take to school s'mores, strawberry shortcake, strawberry smoothies, string cheese, pretzel Sticks, star sugar cookies...it was so fun! I took cupcakes to lunch on Friday. We had pizza and cupcakes...yummy! Nora's teacher is setting up times with each parent to show/share/talk to the kids about a holiday tradition. After lunch, I told the kids about one of our holiday traditions. I keep a very large basket on the fireplace full of Christmas books. Nora chose Cajun Night Before Christmas and I chose Humphrey's First Christmas to read. The kids loved the stories! It was so fun to be able to spend time with Nora and her class this week!
Day 4
It has been pretty chilly lately. Anything under 65 is cold, but we've had some days with only highs in the 50s. I was in my craft studio working on a birthday gift when I looked out the window and noticed this beauty. So very pretty and I love that it's such a strong red. It's been there for days but I just noticed and I'm glad I did!
Day 5
Tim hung the Christmas lights. Nora was supposed to help, but she did more damage than good. He asked her to untangled a strand of lights and she got tangled in the strand and tripped. She got back on her feet and stepped on 3-4 bulbs and broke them. We all three laughed once we were sure she wasn't hurt!
Day 6
I've usually have all of my Christmas decorations out before Thanksgiving. This year we had so much going on that I didn't get it finished before we left for Thanksgiving. And when we got back I was out of commission for a couple of days plus Mamaw was here! I'm steadily getting the decorations up...I might finish by Christmas Eve!
Day 7
I picked Nora up early from school today and we went to Color Me Mine. The past few years we've been painting a "cookies for santa" plate. I turned their feet into snowmen. I can't wait to see how the plate looks after it's been fired. Nora loves to paint at CMM. She painted an ornament while I put the details on the plate. Madelynn stayed pretty contained. She colored with markers on the white table paper. Madelynn took a late nap so we missed lunch. After CMM we stopped at McCalisters for a late lunch. Spooncake is back for a limited time so we shared a slice!
Day 8
The sunsets have been so beautiful lately. I snapped a pic of one the other night with my phone and I really wish I'd had my camera with me. Tonight I managed to get this one. Not nearly as pretty as the one from my phone the other day (see below) but I think the moon sliver was a neat part of the pic!
There you have it...caught up for the first 8days of December. I might update each day or I might wait a few days...we'll see!
Madelynn's vocabulary is expanding very little by very little. She won't take the pacifier out long enough to talk. She tries to talk around it and it's very annoying! The other day I asked if she has been "naughty or nice" and she replied "naughty" Today I asked again and she said "nice". She's right...she was a super sweet girl today.
Nora on the other hand has been a total heathen. I think she's having some hearing loss we might need to check into. It appears that anything I say to her or tell her to do, she doesn't hear me therefore not doing what I said or ignoring me or doing the opposite of what I've asked. She wanted a skateboard for Christmas to try and motivate her (she's currently grounded from her DSi and the TV) to follow instructions, I bought the skateboard she wants while she was with me at Target. Weren't in the car 5 minutes and she slapped across the car at Madelynn. Seriously?? Needless to say I told her that I was returning the skateboard first thing in the morning. She started crying and I told her that from now until Christmas I'm going to start returning her Christmas gifts everytime she misbehaves, defies me etc. The only way she'll get them back is for good behavior. It seems to be working because she cleaned the living room and her bedroom AND vacuumed today. Scary! But...progress!
I'm off to craft. I'm working on several projects for the girls. Homemade gifts are not taking the place of store bought gifts, but I thought it'd be special to give them something I made specifically for each of them...we'll see. Probably like all the other gifts...play with them 5 min and toss them in a pile *sigh*
until next time...
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