funny things kids say

My boss is always telling me to keep track of the funny things that my kiddos say because I'll want to remember them later and won't be able to.... so I'm starting by keeping them here and the post will always be titled ..... "Funny things kids say"

right now we are dog-sitting for my mom and so oldest daughter let them out last night to use the bathroom. she came back to let me know and said "mom, I put Eddy and Bonnie out so that they won't pee and poop on your carpet and then your tears will not come and you will not cry."

priceless.

Holiday Recap

Well, I took a short blogging break in order to make it through my time off... yup, my work (and husband's school) gave us 2 weeks off! Today's my first day back in the office. Boy is it hard to concentrate when your mind has basically been in free fall for 2 straight weeks....

so, here's a recap of our time:
23rd- got off at noon-ish and went shopping for the last minute stuff

24th- got up and went to my sister's house for Christmas w/her family and my mom & stepdad... the only picture i got was this: my mom opening the book that i got her (it's called 'my granny's purse' and it is TOO cute!)

left my sister's and drove to husband's home town for a little Christmas eve-ing at the in-laws (attn: booderbean's mom... your dad was great as santa yet again!), drove home that evening

santa came to our house too!

25th got up and did the presents and breakfast thing

(who's excited that santa brought her a new dora sippy cup in her stocking?)

(santa brought me my first sewing machine! ROCK!)

went to church

ate lunch at a flipping CHINESE RESTAURANT!!! (fa ra ra ra ra)
went to my dad's for more presents and dinner

26th went to oldest daughters godparents house for a little visiting... oldest daughter got some of her money out when we went to target that day and purchased a cake mix to make cupcakes for her godparents (isn't that the sweetest?)

27th went to a play place w/oldest daughter's godparents' grandchildren

28th went to my aunt's for a fierce game of dirty santa (i won an awesome coffee press!) and a fabulous gingerbread house decorating contest (for those of you looking for an activity for a post-christmas party, you can usually buy the kits for half off and they are quite a bit of fun... hopefully i'll have pictures of my team's winning house soon)

29th cleaned the house all the live long day so that husband's best friend from grade school could come down and stay with us

30th drove back to husband's home town for some delicious mexican food and some quality time w/friends and grandparents

31st youngest daughter came down w/ a nasty diaper rash and fever due to teething so we canceled our babysitter and our plans... had a somewhat quiet evening watching friend's son.

1st woohoo happy new year! friend's girlfriend got food poisoning. big fat bummer. avoid nachos at the cox convention center during flaming lips concert. went to church- feast of Mary the Mother of God (woot woot!!)

2nd got the girls out of the house so husband could get caught up on grading, then went out w/my mom and sister that evening and saw 7 pounds... it was FAB-U-LOUS!!!!

3rd husband decked our attic (or part of it) so that there is a GOOD (i.e. not the garage) place to store our christmas decorations, etc. went out w/husband that night at pf changs (at spicy sauce spilled all over my dress... booo! but cleaned it up pretty well) got free dinner, went to see 4 Christmases (pretty funny)

4th family slept in and we spent the day un-decorating (my house looks so bare!)

5th back here at work!

smorgasbord

Did anyone read the Babysitter's Club books? Do you remember that one family they babysat for that had about a gajillion kids? They used to always talk about how once a week instead of preparing a regular dinner the family would clean out the fridge of leftovers and one of the kids always called it 'Smorgasbord night' or something like that...

... well this is a smorgasbord post. Where I have little bits of things to mention, so I'm going to put it all in one...
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...Winner winner chicken dinner! Kimba of A Soft Place to Land sponsored a fabulous giveaway from Rowena of RubyRedRose etsy fame. I won my choice of one of her FABULOUS clutches. While it was nearly impossible to be patient for the mailman to deliver my blueprint clutch all the way from England, I'm happy to say it has arrived and already accompanied me on an evening out for my sister's birthday. Of course I'm not on top of things enough to take a picture then in all of its 'going out' beauty, but I did snap a few pictures this morning. On my desk. Holding not so exciting things (I could actually fit quite a bit in there- my cell phone, car keys, wallet, and a ziploc baggie full of pretzels)... isn't it lovely? Don't you want to zip right on over to Rowena's etsy shop and buy one for yourself to match every outfit? I'm sure she'll be accomodating!

Thank you Kimba for the GREAT giveaway and Rowena for your beautiful work!
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...Chris at Just a girl has a great post on scrounging up some extra Christmas decor in a low-budget kind of way. I stole... errr... borrowed the idea of getting some scrapbook paper to decorate a candle... here's my version

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Also, I'm posting a picture of one of my favorite Christmas gifts I've ever received. Ya know how when you're a kid, you can kind of romatacize your parent's jobs? You think about how important they must be that their job takes them away from being at home 5 days a week. You wonder if the entire world would come to an end if they didn't show up. Well, my dad worked for a company that made parts for pumpjacks. For those of you who don't know, a pumpjack pumps oil out of the ground, and we have a lot of them here in Oklahoma. So, one year, when I was about 5 I told Santa that I wanted a purple pumpjack for Christmas. Well, believe it or not, pumpjack toys are not super easy to come by, even in Oklahoma. But somehow, Santa managed to find one. Don't ask me how he did it. Now, it came in black and red, instead of purple, and he must have gotten his elves to make it at the very last second and they just simply didn't have time to paint it a spectacular color like purple, but here it is in all its glory. I still pull it out around Christmas time to think back to simpler days... not to mention the trouble Santa went through to find it...

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Finally, who doesn't love a good 'kid who hates Santa' picture? Well, we took the girls to see Santa, and this was the best I could get...

hope you're all enjoying these last few days of Advent. Christmas will be here before we know it!

the reason for the season

this is one of those 'out of the mouths of babes' things, only its a nice little arrangement prepared by my 3 year old...

Explanation: on our entryway table, in the middle of our Advent wreath, sits a small antique nativity set. the baby Jesus doesn't make his appearance in the manger until Christmas day, and I think my daughter has taken notice that he is 'missing'. So, she did what all good preschoolers do- improvise. She found this little white heart-shaped rock to sit in the manger when she plays with the 'mommy and daddy' figurines. So sweet... here we wait for Love to be born.

Friday Funny

fun picture for the day

a lot of heavy-ish things going on personally, so i thought i'd lighten my mood by sharing this....

we're hangin' tough!

Oh, I have a funny story

/first lemme say i'm typing while i eat lunch, which means one-handed, which means no caps...

ok, they made a funny comment on sits about guys being welcome, but put the seat down- every time!!! and that reminded me of one of my funniest encounters wuth the seat up... well its funny now. then i was.... angry.

so husband and i were on our honeymoon... a 6 day cruise around the carribean type area. it was the first day/night/whatever and i excused myself to our little bathroom. now, i'm not a shy pee-er or anything like that... husband and i had dated too long to be shy about that stuff, anywho i went on in and the next thing i knew- splash- my butt had hit WATER! (had to cap that!) husband, in all his newly-married glory- had left the seat up. and, as it turns out, the shape of toilets on cruise ships is such that you can give it a glance before you sit down and it looks like the seat is down, but upon further investigation (with your butt) you find yourself in a very wet operation!

and, btw, what is it with guys and their toilet habits? why don't they put the seat back down? wasn't it down when they came in? didn't being a boy scout or something teach them to put things back where they found them? and don't they realize that if we sit 100% of the time and they sit 50% of the time that that means the MAJORITY of the time the seat needs to be down? furthermore, why can't they put the new roll of tp on the tp holder? why do they just set it on top of the old empty roll? i hate that.