I managed to get myself out the door without Ken today to do my Christmas shopping for him. Due to a lucky coincidence I had over 20.00 of survey cheques make their way to our mailbox before today. This increased my budget to 40.00 which turned out to be just enough to get him some rather interesting and fun things (of course no hints here since a certain hubby DOES read the blog – mainly to make sure I don’t bash him or tell personal embarrassing secrets I think!).

While at THE Mall I also got my first glimpse of a tazer gun in action! We were on the upper level and chanced to see (by we I mean She Chris and I) a bunch of people standing around one of the railings. Thinking it was some sort of performance or something we went to take a peek. 3 cops on some man who was flailing around… until he got tazered! And then he yelled “I am NOT resisting”… yeah – NOW. Definitely a good reinforcement that I do NOT want to ever experience that. I didn’t stick around long, just long enough to see what was going on and move on since we were planning on using the escalator right there to get to the lower level (we continued on).

The kids kept themselves busy with beading and playing in the basement and of course – colouring. Don’t forget the Connect 4 game – Trinity’s personal favourite!

Connect 4! (Zander)

ABC's (Gavin)

Sewing has been a bit delayed with my unplanned trip out and about and Ken’s being over-run with small children but I have managed some more work on the Santa ornament. I also just started a 3rd version of the pea-pod baby while I await my next larger pattern. (man is the clock running down!)

Pea-pods #4

Santa So Far!

There is some news in regards  to the pattern page – the freebie link to the Harley Davidson piece, our Chemist piece is up and the Homer Simpson one I thought was up SHOULD be up by tonight!! Feels good to have some new stuff up there! Oh and last night I got some beading done too!

Beaded!

Since it is Thursday it is – of course – gaming night… without Ted tonight but still a crowd in my living-room. So now tv for me until later tonight… but plenty of time to sew… which is what I SHOULD be doing right now!

Day 10 of Advent... lovely colours! Thank You!

Cousin David and Trinity

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