So, this will be a jumbled mess of what we've done these past couple of weeks. I know this will sound like rambling... but that's what it has felt like too! The pics are in no particular order...First of all Shopping: Katelyn and I have done a lot of shopping lately, mostly when Sam has been in preschool, but I have come to realize what a shopaholic this little girl is. Usually when we drop Sam off at preschool she will say, "Let's go shopping Mom" or one day she was out with Michael and Sam and I came out to say goodbye (I was going for some nice kidless shopping) and she started to cry and said "I wanna go shopping with Mom" (Michael thinks I've ruined her). Anyway, she loves to shop with me (most of the time). Sam doesn't get to shop that much with me (for some reason shopping with 2 is exponentially worse than shopping with one) and he prefers to help Michael in the yard or whatever Michael may be doing, lately we haven't had much daddy time so he'll take what he can get. Anyway, one day he did come with me and we went to the new Smiths Marketplace (plug for all those within shopping distance, I have come to love this store) and they have these mini carts and Sam was so cute. He just may be a shopper yet!
The day before Thanksgiving my sister and I went to my dad's house to help him with some tile grout. Josh came up as well and he had rented Walle so the kids had a little movie time with popcorn and playing and we also did gingerbread houses. When I was growing up we always did gingerbread houses on a December FHE (family home evening) and it was painstaking making the gingerbread houses and expensive, but tons of fun! AND I remember eating the houses after Christmas (I don't think you could pay me to eat them now). When we first got married in the prekid days we invited a couple over to do gingerbread houses with us for a FHE. And couple of times the Gardner side has done gingerbread houses which we have gone up for when we have been able to. I have to say (another plug coming here) I LOVE the premade, candy all in the box, ready to go gingerbread houses. Anyway, we bought some of those and we did those as well at my dad's place. Which is a long story and was an ordeal all in itself! But Sam had a great time (Katelyn was sleeping and missed all the action). The other day I think he had an even greater time destroying and eating the house with his buddy Ethan. I should have taken pictures, but I didn't.
Then we had a great time at Thanksgiving, this year it was at the Gardner's... there was tons of yummy food and the kids loved playing with the cousins and seeing grandma and grandpa. The next day I went shopping while Sam helped Michael put up the tree (Michael didn't feel good all week and didn't want to do it but there was NO WAY Sam was letting him out of it. He had been telling everyone his schedule for the entire week "Wednesday we are doing Gingerbread houses, Thursday we are going to my Grandmas and Friday I'm setting up the tree with my Dad") they waited for me to decorate the tree and the kids loved it! I bought them each an advent calendar (cheap $1.50 chocolate one) and after breakfast they have been opening the doors on it, and even that has been so fun. I truly think that kids make the holidays so much fun. I have to admit sometimes I'm a little bit of a scrooge with all the work with decorating and the stress etc. (confession - last year I didn't even put out my nativity set - blasphemous I know, I just wanted to put up as little as possible - but in my defense Katelyn was sick almost all winter and was in the hospital the week before Christmas with pneumonia and RSV) But my kids have been so fun with it, I find myself looking forward to their reactions to things and them looking forward to everthing.
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2 comments:
I think kids just make everything fun (and trying all at the same time). I bought the advent calendars for each of the kids too, something I have never done and with 5 it ended up being $7.50 so I sat in the store and debated back and forth forever. I would put then down and then come back, stupid I know. But finally broke and got them and you would have thought I gave Carson the world, so worth the $7.50 to make his day like that.
I need to break down and do gingerbread houses. We always did them when I was a kid and did them pre-kids and even when BJ was really young with mom, but then we hit the lean years and that was an expense that could go. Maybe next year.
What a cute little shopper!! That used to be one of my favorite things in the world to do was shop with mom.
Wow, "Looking forward to doing more for the holidays." Is this the new Judy. :) Kids do make all the differecnce. I love to watch how my kids react to the holidays and they make all the work worth it.
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