My Christmas Present

Christmas Eve 2011

 Reading Luke 2.

Focused

Little gifts

Our tree is bursting with little gifts.  Some of them are legit.  But most of them I have no idea about.


Every morning when we wake up, there are another dozen gifts under the tree from Joel. It's probably mostly random stuff he's been selecting to wrap in the wee hours, because I know he hasn't been to a store.  I bought a 30-bow bag and 50 name tags a couple of days ago, when I noticed that our wrapping supplies were being eaten in the night, and those were all gone again today.


I finally asked both boys yesterday to make lists of who to give gifts to and keep them safe from wandering eyes and to make sure that they don't forget anyone.  Then I took them to the dollar store armed each with a $20 bill.  At one point when we were at the store I asked Joel how many gifts he was getting his cousin, because it sounded to me like he had already gotten 2 or 3 things for her.  He said that he had 11 so far!  Now they both have even more little gifts to wrap.  


We're all having a blast with it.


About the tree: I'm sure you can understand why the tree is loaded with decorations from 4 1/2ft and down.  But I have no idea how that gingerbread made it up to the top.  I don't really want to know.  I'm just enjoying the fact that someone thought it needed a place of prominence.  


Merry Christmas to all!

Eagle day.

 Joel took this picture today on an outing with his grandparents.  They're cool.  He and his grandparents.  And Eagles.

Time Warp

Mom: Joel, can you name 600 Pokemon?

Joel: bulbasaur, ivysaur, venasaur, charmander, charmeleon, charizard, ...

Mom: Are you counting, too?

Joel: You count. I've named 6 so far.

Mom: I can't count to 600 right now. I have other things to do.

Joel: Sure you can. I counted to 1000 before, in bed. Really, it took 30 minutes.

Camping with Boys

Seriously, did I go camping alone with the boys? Yes, I did. I must have been in too much shock to blog about it, because it took me 3 months to notice that I flagged pictures to post.

Memory of it was that it was nice to be out there in the peace and quiet with my little adventurers.

Would I do it again? probably. It was kinda hard, with one moment of "I can't handle this" but good memories were made. And that's the point, right?