MERRY CHRISTMAS

Santa brought Reagan a Dora with a walking Pegasus, the doll was set aside the Pegasus has not left her side.
Edie got a ta-ta-tar (guitar) just like Daddy's. She's been rockin' out.

'Wait, wait, wait....Santa brought me CASH', Aubrey said seriously.

He brought her a register and some play money.

They got exactly what they asked for. It was a delightful morning, filled with smiles and laughter.

Reagan spent most of her morning, hiding behind the Christmas tree eating all the chocolate kisses out of her stocking.

Looking OUT the dining room window.

School Santa

Ice Storm

I hope those of you without power will get it soon. You are in my thoughts!

We made it 6 days with three little ones!! Go US!!! We had a generator, we had wood stoves, we had each other. We picnicked by the wood stove for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We bathed at family members houses. We had alot of laundry to catch up on. But we made it.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our adventure.

Thank goodness for cardboard boxes!

Day 1

Day 2 was colder.

You know it's bad when icicles form down and UP on power lines connected to the house!!

Day 3

Day 4, 5, and 6 were pretty much the same. It started to melt.

Then it...

Snowed for 36 hours.

We only got 18 inches.

We've had fun and I'm arts and crafted out!

I'm Baaaack.........

Edie Update

She danced, she sang, she ate well, she played well.
While being the entertainment on Thanksgiving Edie's inner ear was building up enough pressure to perforate her ear drum.

She had a horribly painful night, with hardly any sleep.

She woke with blood coming from her right ear.

She was so uncomfortable, and exhausted from not sleeping.

The day after Thanksgiving the pediatricians office was closed.

I took her to Urgent Care in Londonderry (I highly recommend it over the ER for non life threatening injuries!!)

Poor thing.

We checked in and they made her feel comfortable, which made her feel better and me feel better!

They diagnosed her, flushed her ear, and gave her some medicine to clear up the infection inside and out. Less than 2 hours later we were on our way to get her prescription filled and go home to rest. (Unlike our 8 hour ER adventure last month with Ray)

She is back to being happy Edie,

defiant Edie,

opinionated Edie...

Decorating The Tree

(Yes, it's fake we have too many allergies and I already have enough messes to clean up without picking pine needles out of the run for the next 8 months!)

We were sick most of October, no carved pumpkins, no scarecrows...

very sad for a Halloween lovin' girl like myself.

I promised myself to make the most of Christmas this year, because since the twins were born it usually goes something like this...

I shuffle downstairs at a nap time to dig through the sea of basement storage containers.

By the time December rolls around they have literally sunk to the bottom of 'the sea'.

I move an endless stream of outgrown toys, tools, odds and ends, making a path to the masking taped 'x-mas' totes.

The bungee corded Christmas tree box is always in the corner.

I drag the totes up the basement stairs. They thump on each step. Tiny bells jingle and something starts singing the 'Frosty the Snowman's' song.

The decorations are tossed about.

Giving the house a light dusting of seasonal cheer.

But that's not how it went this year...

It was delightful.

This year we made it a family night.

Todd wanted to help.

He cleaned the basement, yes...cleaned.

He found the totes and labeled the ones without.

We enjoyed going through 32 years of his ornament memories.
The girls enjoyed it too!

We listened to holiday music, and watched Rudolph.

This year we are ready!