Getting Ready for Santa at School

Cotton Eyed Joe

This is classic...

-s

New Active Gear Site

I often visit steapandcheap.com to see what gear is 50% off at the time. This site has one item on sale at a crazy discount until they sell out. For example, one time they had a pair of women's hiking shoes going for $1! Well anyway, J called me today and told me he found the best site ever... it's http://www.cleansnipe.com/. It pools all the great deal sites like steapandcheap into one portal so you can see what's on sale at that very moment. It even updates automatically! I'll be keeping this one up for the remainder of the year at least. :)

happy shopping!
-s

Can I Borrow Your Christmas Tree?

Every year the weekend after Thanksgiving, we go up to Jones Family Farm to cut down our very own, one of a kind Christmas Tree. This is a tradition from J's family since he was young so we continue it with glee each year. Also, every year since he's had his own Christmas Tree, J has had a competition with his dad to find the VERY BEST Christmas Tree. So we typically take about 2 hours to find the best Christmas tree and then have to search around for where we left our gloves to reserve the other "Best" trees. This year we had a great time as it was very warm. Less frost, the better I say!

Now back to the title of this story. Since the rivalry has continued it is always a topic of conversation. This year is no different. Who's tree is nicer, who's is fuller, who's has better shape and on and on... IMHO - our tree has way too little branches at the top and could be a bit fuller but has a great shape while my in-law's tree is very full but looks a bit short and stumpy. There's no such thing as a perfect tree!!!

Well, yesterday we went over my in-laws to decorate their tree (another tradition) as we're finishing up dinner and the kids are running away from the table, Livvy walks over to her grandmother and says. "Mandma? Can I borrow your tree?" We all look at her and wonder what the heck she's talking about. So Grandma says "What tree do you want to borrow?" and Livvy walks over to the Christmas tree and to her dad's disappointment says "This tree. I like this tree."

Well, enough of the arguing the "Christmas Bush" as J has dubbed it due to it's short-stout nature, is the best tree this year. I don't mind because I decorated both trees and had a great time doing it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

-s

Tidbits

I have about 10 minutes to write this morning until my next meeting so this will be quick. Here are a few tidbits from the past month...
- I started flossing twice a day since I went to the dentist... now my gums hurt and I get food stuck in my teeth every time I eat! What the heck! That's just not right.
- We decorated for Christmas this weekend and Livvy helped. She was excited to see everything go up. Then the next morning she took a look around and said "Mommy, you done decorating?". I said "Yes I am. Do you like it?" and she said "It's pretty Mommy". How cute is she?
- I finished my Christmas cards early this year and sent out 100 cards... Unfortunately I forgot a few folks and now have to order more cards. Annoying. Well at least Livvy looks cute in them!
- I got new glasses and sun glasses for driving which are great but expensive!... I showed them to J yesterday. He said the sunglasses look like those glasses old people wear to cover all their eyes... great waste of $500 bucks!
- Livvy is excited to see Santa Claus at the mall. She keeps saying she's going to ask him for Happy Feet and then says she's going to tell him please and thank you.
- J has gone away on business a few times in the past month and each time Livvy tells everyone at school that daddy went away on a rocket. Then when I asked her "is daddy on a rocket" she told me "you silly mommy, daddy is on a airplane".

So that's a tidbits for now... I'll follow up with something more substantial when I have a chance!

-S