It has been a good, if rather frigid, day today. Today was the twins’ very first true Christmas pageant. They were dressed up as angels and sang Away in a Manager. Sadly Ken dropped (accidentally of course) the camcorder outside before going in to the church and for some reason the zoom was fudging up so we only have the regular digital camera video BUT we got it! Oh and some pictures.

Singing at the Front (Gavin in Green)

Of course with all 4 kids dressed up (and myself – Ken opted for blue jeans and a somewhat spiffy sweater) we HAD TO take some pictures in front of the tree! Trinity was a little bit … upset about being dolled up but we reconciled her to the situation.

Proud Mommy (Gavin left)

The Babies

Trinity

We got a bit of a visit with mom and Mike at the church but since the temperatures were so low they had to rush back home to Harley who had to be left in the bootroom where she would be warm but COULD have an accident!

Off of Mike's Camera

Tonight I plan on working on baking, I have already made a dozen applesauce muffins… still need to make cookies, cookie dough and potentially a loaf. Thank goodness Ken enjoys baking too! Or at least mashing the bananas.

No new patterns today – but I am still working on my 4 pea-pod piece. I am hoping to complete it tomorrow when Ken assures me he will have my next big piece. I have two left that I REALLY want done before Christmas (and 3 IOU’s to give to people for belated gifts – not bad!).

Peapods!

The pears AND Homer should be up TONIGHT I am assured by Ken so be sure to check back! Homer will be a freebie and the pears 4.00… so check back!

For the 13th Day of Advent - Snowman candle! Thank you!

Yesterday Ken went back to the MP to talk to the aide that was assigned to our issue. The aide was surprised to see him since he thought this issue was resolved LAST week – well no money showed up so – NOPE. It was actually rather entertaining – without giving away any information Ken would rather remain private… So Ken gets there after 4pm as the secretary suggested and waits until around 5:30 or later to talk to “our” aide. HE in turn calls the contact at the other government agency and his supervisor with no results. This leads to him calling another supervisor and says – hey I thought we resolved this… the supervisor then checked his reports and records to find out that the original contact’s supervisor had gone through all pending cases and chose ones that looked “odd” and arbitrarily marked them for auditing or NOT paying out. This is not appropriate for our case as Ken has that dr’s note that says PAY OUT… So the result of all this is a correction on Monday (figures we finally get a reason on FRIDAY) with pay out 2 days after… shall we hold our breath ???

Oh and don’t forget the GOOD mail! I got a package from a homeschooling mom – her second as she is cleaning out old craft supplies!! All sorts of fun activities come to mind!

Thank You!!

Today was a definite attempt to get as much “little errands” done as possible. We finally have our hands on some wallet sized photos so I will spend most of tonight (while gaming with friends) writing the names on the back so that on Monday we can  get started on the time consuming and COSTLY process of posting them. FINGERS CROSSED on that one! My Advent package is on its way BACK to us… I am hoping to have it in my hands by Monday so we can ship it out again – this time NOT with the post though.

My plan for today is to just keep trucking through things. The boys are spending the majority of their time lately creating with Legos since the weather is dismally cold. Thank goodness for the basement toy room though I wish the weather would warm up slightly so that the kids could go out for a decent amount of time and play in the snow (when we were in Walmart I noticed sleds so if I can get enough survey cash… or a commission).

Colouring Winter Scenes in Jammies! (Zander blue)

Tomorrow the twins are taking part in the church’s Christmas Pageant. Apparently as ANGELS? Go figure! Then the plan is to head over to the nature centre to learn about snowflakes, but if the weather remains so cold we may have to give it a miss and come home and bake cookies instead  (not sure the boys would be to upset about that!).

Stitching has slowed a wee bit in the wake of cleaning and labelling of pictures but I am still plugging away on the 4 pea-pod piece. I am still getting in a stitch here and there on the Santa piece as well but nothing really different to photograph.

2 Blankets Down 2 to Go

So not a busy day on Friday but we made up for it today in running around. So much to do and the time is really running down!

Day 11 - Tree Shaped Soap!

Day 12 Metallic Thread! Thank You!

Due to sick mommy and 2/4 kids sick… blog entry will be up TOMORROW with a decent run down of our end of the week!