Does he believe?

"I don't really have to sit on his lap, do I?"

(This picture was taken last week at the Mosanto kids Christmas party)

He hasn't come out and said he doesn't believe in Santa

but I'm sure the kids at school have been talking

Our Elf on the Shelf made his debut on Black Friday

and Spencer just laughed

UNTIL

we watched the Elf on the Shelf movie

In the movie, there is a little boy that doesn't believe in the Elf

The little boy touched the Elf and he lost his magic

I think the movie got his wheels turning a bit

but I still don't think he's on board

I guess I'm okay with Spencer knowing the truth

but I don't want him to ruin the fun for Parker

The hubby says I have to wait until after Christmas to discuss this with the boy

Until then, I'll keep trying to make things fun

This year I decided to do something a little different

Instead of putting name tags on each gift,

Everyone has their own gift wrap

and only I know which gift belongs to whom

This has eliminated the shaking of gifts

and figuring out what they got before Christmas morning

I love to hear the boys talk about which gifts they think are theirs

There was a down fall to this though -

I only got to use about half of my rolls of gift wrap

Remember, I have a fetish

I have gift wrap

and more gift wrap

and more gift wrap

and more

I LOVE GIFT WRAP

We have also been having fun going to Christmas activities
and eating WAY to many holiday goodies

Can you say, YUMMY (The diet starts January 1st)

We have a lot more Christmas festivities coming up
and many more goodies to eat
I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Yes, I ordered this

If you want to complain,

complain to me

I'm the one that ordered the snow

It's BEAUTIFUL and I'll be ordering more

I hung snowflakes in my kitchen windows JUST in time

 

I'm not the only one excited about the snow

The boys couldn't wait to come home and play in it

My angel made a snow angel

  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

How about you?

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

How lovely are your branches

We went hunting for a Christmas tree in the rain yesterday

 at Kelly's Tree Farm in Tipton

I could have settled for an artificial tree

but the hubs wanted a real one

We had hot cider and triple chocolate popcorn on the way there

We picked out our tree

The boys loved on the bunnies

(I love that Spencer's glasses were all fogged up)

And we got peanuts for the ride home

We came home and decorated the tree with a little help from Amelia

 and then we were exhausted and called it a day

We love our tree!

Thank you Kelly's Tree Farm!

We survived!

Well, we survived Thanksgiving!

I wasn't sure we would this year

Thanksgiving hit me like a ton of bricks

Where has the year gone?

Thanksgiving snuck up on me

and it must have snuck up my my clients as well.

A lot of them waited until the last minute to get in

but were thankful that this girl works extra hours to get them in

On Monday I worked 12 LONG hours between the 2 jobs

The only break I got was to take the boys to the dentist

On Tuesday my little guy woke up looking like this

So I rearranged my CRAZY schedule to take him to the doctor

The diagnosis- Ear infection, possible sinus infection and a NASTY eye infection

Who believes that ear infections and colds appear when children are cutting teeth?

I DO and NO doctor will ever make me change my mind

Speaking of teeth,

Remember these hideous pictures?

Parker couldn't remember how to smile without teeth.

Once those teeth popped thru, THAT SMILE WAS BACK!

ANYWAY-

Parker's feast at school was on Wednesday and we had to get him better

THANKFULLY, medicine did the trick

and he was able to go back

Once Wednesday night hit, I was exhausted

and SUPER THANKFUL that I had 4 days off to recoup

We celebrated Thanksgiving at my Aunt's house in Davenport

My family sure knows how to cook and bake!

Why didn't I get those genes?

Yesterday the hubby worked,

I stayed home and avoided the CRAZY black Friday sales.

I didn't think it would bother me but I sure missed shopping with my mom

Maybe next year!

Today the hubby is going to drag us out in this gross weather to get a tree
I may have survived Thanksgiving
but I'm not sure I will survive tree hunting in the rain

On edge

I have been on edge lately

and I HATE it

I'm working 4 nights  a week

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my jobs

I just feel like my kids and my house need me more

I have had a lot on the brain

Our garage was graffitied last week

I can't help but look out the windows a hundred times a night

I WILL CATCH THEM

I have a million and one Christmas projects I want to make

My baby is turning 7 in a month and I have a party to plan

I am running in every direction with the boys-

School, Cub Scouts, Jammers and Gymnastics

The hubby is on orders this week for the Guard

I was reminded many times this week that Thanksgiving is next week
and MANY of my clients have waited until the last minute to make an appointment

And I'm tired of trying to please and give people what they want

Only to find out from someone else that they are upset

I just feel like I could scream at anyone at any given moment

So while 90% of my friends are on happy pills and tell me I should give them a try

I'll just go eat some chocolate :)

Who's Your Daddy?

You may remember these guys

I have talked about them a ton

My Aunt took in a mama (Smokey) and her 5 babies

 We know mama looks like this

But now that these kitties are already half grown and are absolutely gorgeous

I would LOVE to know what their daddy looks like

Is he long haired?

Is he tiger striped?

What color are his eyes? 

Look at these handsome guys and I'm not just talking about my boys :)

These kitties are BEAUTIFUL

These are 3 of our sweet Amelia's brothers

Aren't they gorgeous?

And here is our Amelia (such a pretty girl)

I wish they could talk because I would ask-

Who's your daddy?

Giving Back

November, the month to GIVE THANKS

November is also the month that we GIVE BACK

For the last 5 years we have donated to

Samaritans Purse for Operation Christmas Child

If you haven't heard of Smaritan's purse, check it out- www.samaritanspurse.org/occ

A sweet lady at our church gave 100 plastic boxes to be used for OCC

We decided to buy for a little girl this year (That was MY idea)

The boys and I went to the store and picked out her gifts -

 a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book

Strawberry Shortcake dolls
a bracelet we made
 a rubber ball

headbands
cute socks

a jump rope

Laffy Taffy
and
a puzzle

I hope she enjoys her gifts
and
I hope you GIVE BACK this holiday season