Finished "A Christmas Carol!"

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Finally read through this short story! My girls loved it! We finished it in the car on Christmas morning on the way to Grandma and Grandpa's.

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Claire Funny

The girls just started watching The Sound of Music.  It was one of the opening scenes with all the nuns.  Claire asks:  "Daddy, are they penguins or something?"

 

LOL!!

Happy sigh ...

Spent a wonderful couple of days at Mom & Dad's with the family. Christmas Eve included everyone but the Mozingos, who were spending the day with Pat's family. We ate and ate, sang, watched the kids and played a fun game called "Family", which even the little ones could play.

Mick and I spent most of the day before in the kitchen. We made: Date Pudding, Gingerbread Men, Buckeyes, Glazed Almond Sugar Cookies, and Chinese Chews.

Now I'm enjoying my Christmas gift; Hershey Special Dark candy bar!! (love him!)

Now I'm fallin asleep at the keyboard, so I'll end.

--Colleen

3:51 am

Claire: MOMMY!!! MOMMY!!!

Me: (running) What?! (heart pounding)

Claire: Was I a baby before Grant?

Me: Yes. Now go back to sleep.

Claire: OK

Pretty good observation for a 3-year-old. I just hope her next light-bulb moment happens during regular waking hours. :-D

Nicole's wedding

Forecast for this Saturday:  cloudy, rainy, cold  (high of 47!).  Wonder if I can find some nice dress coats on short notice???

Funny Claire

Claire has had some pretty funny comments lately since she's been potty trained.  Today, while she flushed, she stood at the potty ... watching.  I was washing my hands when she said "Where does it go?"  "What?  The toilet paper?"  "Yes", she said.  "Well, it goes down into the ground and then it just ... goes away." 

<pause>

"It walks?" 

"No!"

"Oh, It can't walk yet?"

 

:-D

Dress-Up Fun

Just had to try uploading a picture. This was taken a few weeks ago when Brooke, Claire & Sarah were having some creative fun. :-)

Should be sleeping, but ...

4:19 am on Monday, March 2, 2009 (Happy Birthday, Kelly!) seemed like the perfect time to start a blog. I've been wanting to do this for awhile now, just to have a place to save all the day-to-day memories being created now with our family. Once I finally gave up the notion of a handwritten journal (because after all, journals are supposed to be handwritten, right?), I gave myself permission to use this modern method of journaling. I hope I stick with it, but judging by the amount of time I spend on the computer already, I think the chances are pretty good. :-)

Now, as for the reasons I am not sleeping:

1. Grant is still suffering from the stomach bug and woke up because he'd soaked through. Not pleasant, but it is reason #1 why I'm up at the moment.

2. Zillions of things running through my head, including, but not limited to:

-- plans for our upcoming production of Oliver! (I really hope this goes well)
-- getting ready for the training I have coming up next week for Lewis & Wagner
-- the endless todo items that come with a weekday -- mainly school stuff with the girls
-- since I'm up, a curious interest in status updates on Facebook :-D