MOM

Alder has taken to starting to call me MOM. Not Mommy, or Momma just plain old MOM. It sounds like a 13 year old with such contempt in her voice. UGH. Why is my baby growing up and why is she calling me MOM??? I want to go back to the days of Mommy.

Advent Calendar

Grandma got the girls Advent Calendars again this year. It is the same kind we had as kids. You open a little door nightly and you get a little chocolate. I remember them being taped to the side of the fridge in our kitchen by the basement door. Cole and I both so very excited for our piece of chocolate every night. Yum!! The girls are the EXACT SAME WAY!!

snow angels

They don’t have the same kind of effect but that does not phase the girls. They are enamored with kids on Frosty the Snowman making snow angels. So they are constantly laying down on the carpet and making “snow angels.”

too early for me

On Thanksgiving Day our Christmas tree when up, even before the turkey was dropped in the hot oil. We were given a fake tree from some friends so we needed to check to make sure all the pieces and parts were included. It only took about 10 minutes and it is all lit and so pretty. It is bigger than we normally buy, but for free how can i complain? So Sunday instead of going out shopping with money I don’t have, instead I stayed home and got out all the decorations and decked the halls. I did not get the tree trimmed that is still in the box to be done maybe this upcoming weekend but the rest of the house is Christmas ready.

dog house

Friday after thanksgiving our friends had a horrible incident. While they were out of state their back shed caught on fire. The fire marshal believes that their neighbors threw a lit cigarette into the trash and that is was ignited the flame. That spread to the fence from there lit the plastic kayak, then the shed that blew out the window and burnt the roof. Lucky the firemen/women did an amazing job and saved the house. We were called because our friends were out of state to take care of their three dogs. Thankfully with Chopper being blind we were able to keep the dogs on the back porch with minimal drama. The girls were in love with the idea of having 4 dogs. We kept reminding that they were not keeping them. We ended up with the littlest of the dogs for almost 3 days. The girls will be sad tonight when they go home and she is not there.