Late Post

Hi everyone! I hope you all had as good of a Christmas as we did. We went to Georgia to spend some of the holidays with family. Thank you to everyone who invited us into your homes. We had such a good time just being able to see everyone. I will be posting pictures soon, I promise.

Chad was able to spend quiet a bit of time with us for the holidays. He had to go back to Norfolk on Sunday, but he was able to spend Christmas day with us.We are already trying to see when he can come home again!

Again, I will be posting some Christmas pictures no later than the end of next week. And to all of our family, it was great seeing all of you. We don't get to see each other enough, so we really appreciate all of the effort you make to get together with us. Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

Gingerbread House

The kids and I made a gingerbread house this past weekend. I got the icing a little too runny as you can see. The kids had a lot of fun though. Can you tell which side of the house Mommy helped with?

PTA Night at Chick-fil-A

The night before Thanksgiving holiday the school had a fundraiser. It was a really easy one too. All we had to do was eat at Chick-fil-A during certain hours. It was very loud with kids running around, but not too crazy. As you can see from the pictures below, there was face painting available. We came straight home and washed it off, but it was fun while it lasted and the red did come out of all of the clothes!

Caitlin with her hearts. Could there be anything more girly?

Caleb had to have Falcon colors painted on his face.

And Ostin was Spider Man. The red got on everything before we got home. I was afraid of stains, but they did a good job of having washable paint.

Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I'm very thankful for my family and friends. I miss you and love you all.

CF Auction

I made a few things for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Auction that is happening this weekend. I had a lot of fun making these. I'm not very creative and it takes me a while to find a pattern that I like.

The first bracelet is just white glass beads with a silver rose charm on the end.  The bottom bracelet is two different sizes of cat's eye beads, white glass beads and three rose charms. The roses are part of a symbol for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

I made this necklace out of pink roundelle beads, two different sizes of white cat's eye beads, and silver rope spacers. I made the earrings out of the pink roundelle beads.

This necklace is made out of green cat's eye beads and yellowish colored disk beads. I really like the earth tones of this necklace.

Color vs Grey

Today Caleb is home sick. He has been sick since Thursday evening, but I think we are on the road to recovery. He feels almost good as new, he just is not fully recovered yet.

He's taking it easy lying on the couch watching tv. He's watching Cars. I'm not sure what part of the movie he is at, but it triggered a question from him. Our conversation went something like this.

Caleb: Mom when were you born?
Me: 19...
Caleb: Really?
Me: Yes. When did you think I was born?
Caleb: I don't know, the 1950s maybe?
Me: Okay.
Caleb: Back in the 19s, did they have color?
Me: Yes.
Caleb: Oh. I thought they might have had just grey back then. I didn't know they had color.

I really never expected to have this conversation with any of my children. I honestly thought that it only happened in a Calvin and Hobbes strip. I can now say that this really does happen and more frequently than most people think. As for myself, I think I need a nice long, hot shower. And to maybe find something that makes me feel young again!

Fifteen?????

So tonight we had to take Chad to the airport. He is on his way back to Virginia. We are now counting down the days until Thanksgiving. He will be back home for that. This is probably going to spoil us. All of these holidays that he will get to be back home all together like this. But that's okay, we'll take what we can get when we can get it.

Anyway. Tonight on the way to the airport, Ostin asked Chad a question."Daddy, when I'm firteen can you teach me how to drive?"

"You have to be fifteen before you can learn how to drive" was Chad's response.

Ostin said, "Fifteen? That's a lot of years!"

I am now really dreading my birthday next month. I wonder what he will think when he finds out how old I am!