Day 334 - 2010

I am still making the amish friendship muffins and loaves. This time I tried it with butterscotch chipits as well as chocolate. I also made a loaf for me as I'm not a fan of the muffins. They were so yum-yum!

Day 333 -2010

I hit a lot of rabbit holes today in my quest to finish off my November To Do list. This was one of them. This sign fell apart shortly after I bought it and has been sitting in the basement for the last 4 or 5 years waiting for me to fix it so that I can give it to Goodwill. I had intended on painting it and putting a biblical quote about our house serving the Lord but it is no longer my style. In the end it took me all of 10 minutes to fix. Now it is gone.

Day 332 - 2010

I started preparing the advent action tags (copied from Ali Edwards) that we will use for Advent.

Day 331 - 2010

Matt played in goal for the first time. He loved it!!! They did lose 4-2 (but there was a REALLY good player on the other team) and as we said, he LOVED it! Have we mentioned that he LOVED it? We are now accepting donations for goalie equipment.

Day 330 - 2010

Cierra was very happy to get her magnet boards up in her room. Now she can see Robert every day.

Day 329 - 2010

It pained me to put these in the garbage. Bye-bye Picket Fences, Touched By An Angel, Friends and more. In hindsight I should have let my mom tape over them but I didn't think about it. Now they will sit in the landfill for eternity. And that is also why we now limit our purchase of ever changing media.

Day 328 - 2010

Mitchell was doing some wild things with his tongue today - but I'll be darned if I could get a good picture of it. It was almost like he just discovered it was there and he could move it in and out.

Day 327 - 2010

I finally got Cierra's inventory written out. All of her clothing, media, books and other belongings are categorized in a spreadsheet. I still need to go back and write up when she got certain things but for now it is good enough. As I went through it all I organized and purged a little. If I could only get her to let go of some of the magazine pictures...

Day 326 - 2010

She's got the clothes.
And she knows how to use them!

I managed to catch a 'pose' today as we were waiting for the kids at school. I think we are going to have a fun time when this girl is a teenager - she already has a fashion sense all her own. I love it!

Day 325 - 2010

Guess who is sitting all on his own? He isn't able to transition yet but I know it won't be long. Then we are in for some trouble!

Day 324 - 2010

Today was the annual Santa Claus Parade. As usual in our desire to have "everything we need" and be dressed appropriately, we ended up being late and missing the first few floats. We had to stand behind the group of people so the view was a little poor. BUT the kids loved it. They didn't care about any of those issues. It was a lovely night, they saw the lights, the decorations and the people and felt the excitement and in the end saw Santa - which was what it was all about. They are constantly teaching me how to just be content in the moment and not worry about all the what-ifs.

Day 323 - 2010

Bibiti fell asleep on the way home today. So sweet (and getting heavier in this sling I might add).

Day 322 - 2010

I honestly don't know where Matt comes up with these ideas. He is a unique and entertaining young guy. He is always keeping us in stitches - which makes it hard sometimes to keep him reigned in!

Day 321 - 2010

It has been airplane central around here this week. Matt took the time to show all of the other kids some of the better ones he has learned from his book. Some of them fly really well! Now if they could all just fly to his room and stay there instead of all over the house!

A thank you shout out to Aunt Ya-Ya who has supplied all of the scrap paper from work! I don't feel bad {as} about using paper for these type of things knowing we have at least reused it once!

Day 320 - 2010

It is rare that Cierra sits down to join the kids and their crafts so it was nice to see that today. They spent about a half hour drawing together. She was very proud of her accomplishments and set them aside for mommy!