Are you ready for Christmas?

I am just curious how many of you are ready for Christmas? I am partly ready. I have a few more gifts to buy and the stockings as well. I have Kolette's quilt left to finish; it is mocking me in my front room b/c it is in the quilting frame but I have yet to start tying it. I know I have to do that since I can't bind it till that is done but man did it have to be so big? It is a queen and what braindead person decided to buy her a queen sized bed needs to be thumped but since that is me I will let myself off w/a stern look. I have 6 pairs of pajama pants to sew and 2 capes. Is that all? I started Donnie's scrapbook of the 55 Bel Air and it is mostly done. Hallelujah!!! I still have to get my Christmas cards delived and mailed. Then the cookies and goodies to do.

So I guess I am tagging all of you to see how far along you are.

License failure

Ok, so my birthday is coming up next Sat and so it means I need to renew my license. They basically want your first born and some of your blood. I had received the paper telling me all I had to take in. I had my birth certificate, marriage license, Social security card and made sure I didn't have to have a piece of mail before I went in. So I wait and lucky me I get the lady w/the well maintained mustash. Seriously she has a mustash and she has been there since I got my permit. It is what my husband wishes he could grow only w/o the estrogen. Weird and it is hard to not stare at her lip. Anyhoo... I had my hair all nice and made sure the make up was nice and she tells me that she can't give me my license b/c I don't have my birth certificate just the hospital certificate. What? She said she could give me a temp but w/o picture and that s/one had stolen some hospital certificates in Oregon a few years ago and so they don't accept them. Seriously I don't have time next week granted I can get one ordered over the internet. Grrr... I am going to try to not be grumpy about it since I have no choice. But as I had gotten in my car to go to the DMV I noticed that my wedding ring had lost a prong and so I had to take it to the jeweler. So she says it will be before Christmas that I will get it back. My brother says oh great you have no proof of birth or that you are married other than he witnessed the wedding and remembers me being born. So do I have to take him everywhere w/me? Oh well I guess it won't be for another 8 years after I finally get this license before I have to go thru this again.

Broken hearts

Boy oh boy have I been busy. My husband has actually threatened me if I spend anymore time at the school he will kill me. Maybe a bit extreme but I can see his point. I spent time there for our carnival in middle Nov. Now we have been there for 2 weeks straight working on the stepping stones for the kids. They are putting their hands in concrete w/stones they are WAY cute! But that is very time consuming for 570 kids. So it has taken 2 1/2 days of running at the school not to mention that I volunteer 2 days a week in the kids classes. Granted on Tues it is only for 1 1/2 hrs and Fri only 1 hr but tomorrow will mark day 4 of being at the school this week.

Now for the part where I broke my son's heart. When Corrin was in K-1st she got to go to every single singing thing there was. Connor NEVER got to go in Kindergarten and the music teacher said he doesn't sing. WHAT?? My boy he is my biggest musical kid I have. Soooooooo I talked to her and asked if he was doing better this year and she said yes and if he does really good she will take him singing last week. So he sang at the Chamber. He and I were both so proud. So yesterday I happened just by chance to dress him super cute and kinda Christmasy for school and dropped him off. Went to pick him up after school and he drops the bomb.
He say "You didn't come to see me sing today"
Me - "what you were singing today?"
Connor - "Yes at the gardens(nursing home)"
Me - "I never saw a note"
Connor - "It was in my lunch box"
Me - "I didn't see it and why was it in your lunch box?"
Connor - "Coz she gave it to me before lunch"
Me - "I am so sorry I wouldn't have missed it for the world and you know I love you always
even when I am not with you don't you?"
Connor - "Yes but I wanted you there" NOw he is crying and my heart is breaking

We get home and he comes up to me and says "I felt like you didn't love me when you weren't there" ARe you kidding me? Could a bigger guilt trip be laid on me? I feel like such a heel. He is going to be singing next week for the Winter program heaven forbid they call it the Christmas program that is recognizing Christ. Shocking! So we decided that I am going to take him shopping and to ice cream since it is so warm outside.

Today I take my youngest 2 to JoAnn and repeatly told Ian to put this little thing back. Low and behold he has it when we get home. So tomorrow I get to take my boy back to JoAnn and have him tell them he took it and make him pay for it. And then he doesn't even get to keep it. How exactly am I going to get the boy who won't talk to any adults to talk to one when he is in trouble? It will be interesting but he clearly knew he was not allowed to have it and brought it home anyway. Parenting is not fun s/times.

On the other hand Kolette announced that she is going to marry me. I told her she has to marry a nice boy who loves Jesus. She tells Ian she is going to marry him. He says no she will have to find some other boy to marry he is going to marry his grandma. She says to Connor I am going to marry you Connor. Innocence isn't it great?

Don't touch that!

I love to have Christmas decorations up. However the putting up of them seems to test my sanity level. I want the kids to enjoy decorating too. However it seems like all they hear is "Don't touch that it will break!" "Look w/your eyes not your hands" "What did I say about touching that?" repeat over and over. Mainly this pertains to Kolette. The main problem is our entire main floor is hardwood or linoleum. So if anything falls off it is going to break guaranteed. So I thought I would make it easier and have a cheap artificial one in the basement that they could decorate w/o my supervision or comments. It is very cute decorated however the part they can't reach is bare. But that is ok. So we will see if the ornaments and decorations will last till Jan or not. In the long run I will have to not sweat the small stuff. However the Nativity set is completely OFF LIMITS!!! I think they are scared enough to not touch that since they all want to keep their fingers. So we will see if they will leave baby Jesus alone. He can move from the manger to Mary's arms. But they all think if he is in her arms he needs to be in the manger. So maybe this year he can stay put and in one piece for another year.

Hoping everyone has a non breakable Christmas!

Connor D

I couldn't get more than 5 pics to post to the last post. So here is Connor. I love these pics esp the one standing up it cute. It was a great day other than a bit of a chilly wind. But they were bribed w/tootsie pops at the end and candy is always a miracle worker. Next time Amy we will have Donnie in the pics as well.

Amy Rocks!

These are pictures that we had taken by Amy Parsons. Isn't she wonderful. Too bad she lives so far away. She has been taking our family pictures since Ian was born. Thanks Amy!!!

Calgon take me away...

Ok, I haven't blogged for a few days b/c basically I have been running my tail off and the computer hasn't even been turned on in 2 days.

Yesterday I took Kolette and Ian to my neighbors for Joyschool and stayed since they aren't part of it she is just nice and let us come. Came home w/just enough time to grab the camcorder b/c Connor was singing at the Chamber which was absolutely darling. Then grabbed lunch and got home w/about an hour to spare before we picked the kids up from school and then we had our Christmas craft at the church which Kolette and Ian got to do as well and that lasted till almost 9 which is past everyone of their bedtime.

Today is the day for insanity. I walked the kids to school and stayed! All day... We are doing a Christmas Craft thru the CPT that is concrete stepping stones. We have 28 classes in our school w/565 students. We did almost half today. We mixed the cement in the bus barn and had the classes come out and poured their drip trays full of concrete and helped them to their classes. My feet are killing me but they are going to turn out so cute. I will NOT be voting for this craft next year. We have to finish the rest on Mon. We got done at 1pm and to run home make Donnie lunch and head back to the school b/c Connor was getting an award for P.E. @1:55 and then Corrin was getting an award at 2:30 for Academic achievement. They were both suprised. The assembly got out just in time for me to walk from one building to another and wait for the 10 minutes before they got out of school. I think I need to recheck my brain next time I say "I would love to help w/this project"

Tomorrow is friday it has to be calmer right? Oh, wait I forgot I am having 3 extras after school. But in all honesty I think I love the chaos and extra kids when they are good kids isn't a hassle and it occupies my kids. These kids are good kids it will be fine. Time flies so fast and I am not sure empty nest is going to work out very well for me anyway.