Christmas Menus & Dubious Capitalization

Christmas Eve Morning: Mini Morning Buns (Trader Joes) Clementines Mini Ham and Cheese Paninis Bacon Orange Juice and Coffee Christmas Eve: 7,000 Frozen Appetizers I Just Purchased At Trader Joes (Assorted Box of Frozen Appetizers, Mushroom Turnovers, Pastry Pups, and Ham and Cheese In Puff Pastry) Black Olives Crackers with Cream Cheese and Green Tomato [...]

House Projects 2011

1. Find a pile of money 2. Refinish the hardwood floors FTLOG. 3. Replace the front screen door and regular door, paint red. 4. Find a cheapish wrought iron bench for the front yard. 5. Find some loungy furniture for the backyard. 6. Buy a bed for our room and a bedside table. 7. Buy [...]

Cribs

I am very very tired.  Wonder Baby doesn’t sleep any more! Have I mentioned I am very very tired? Because Kate Face is now awake from 7-10 PM instead of asleep in her bed like she belongs, I have NO time to myself.  This might actually be worse for my mental health than never getting [...]

Ideas To Survive the Next Four I Mean Five I Mean Six Days of Non Stop Rain

This weekend we were SUPPOSED to go take a horse drawn carriage ride and go see the light show in Old Sacramento.  Instead, it’s pouring rain, so I’ve been brainstorming ideas of things we can do to keep us from slowly losing our minds. 1.  Go to the post office and pick out a letter [...]

My Morning So Far

Katherine had her six month doctor appointment this morning, and Eli woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  He was just absolutely horrible and I eventually got sick of dealing with it and I put him in the crib with all his clothes and told him to get dressed. He was in there [...]

The Roller Skates Behind the Television

I was six or seven years old, I think, that year.  I know I still believed in Santa Claus.  The funny thing is that I remember almost none of the presents I got under the tree or for Christmas when I was a kid, but I can remember this like it was yesterday – the [...]

Christmas Card 2010

I wanted to use this one, but Erik said it looked like we were divorced because I am not in it.  Let me just say that if we were divorced, which we’re not, everyone who knows us would know that there is NO WAY IN HECKFIRE that Erik would be able to get it together [...]

Her Super Power is Extreme Adorableness

Advent Day 14 & 15

Advent Day 14 was boring (make a Christmas card) so we forgot to do it. Advent Day 15 was “Make A Handmade Gift for Someone” and we made super hero masks.  I know two adorable children who might be getting super hero capes for Christmas (shhhhhhhhhhhh) and they needed masks, obviously! I remembered seeing this [...]

Pittman Tuppett (TM Mr. E)

When Eli was a tiny baby, still, and we were right smack in the thick of it, I had a big list of things I felt guilty about.  We couldn’t afford organic milk, so he drank the regular stuff.  We never joined a play group.  And we had no bed time routine. Obviously we were [...]