Our weekend has been a busy one, well for Ken and the boys at least! Saturday Ken spent the bulk of the afternoon/evening running errands that would be much more difficult to do once we gave back mom’s car (today). We are down to a trip to IKEA for Emanuel’s final present after pay-day (ie. after Tuesday) and my shopping at The Mall on Tuesday to complete our shopping for the kids. A friend in the US left money with my mom when she was up for a funeral last month to buy gifts for the kids so I will add that to my to do list for my mall trip.
We have started our Christmas baking and wrapping of presents. Ken even sent my package to my dad and his family in South Carolina last night… and our Santa letters!!! Be sure to write your own!
Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
CANADA
We are keeping up with our Advent colouring, the calendar I made out of Perler beads AND our December calendar page. The kids are so excited to count how many days are left. Even Trinity is getting in on it. This week I am hoping to get the creative juices flowing and have the kids work on some of the little kits I have in the craft bucket. So far I have been leaving each day’s ornament page under the mini tree for the boys to find first thing, and this morning when I got up I came into the living room to find all 3 boys hard at work at their colouring. And the dot to dot I printed out for them to boot!
I am so happy with my nephew’s stocking, I managed to complete the stitching late last night. Which was just in time to have Ken and the boys take it down to my mom for her to assemble. Ken DID change my design quite a bit but the result is just too cute! I am not sure if you can see it from the picture but there are little mice running along some of the lines done in grey and pearl, the cat face is a loose interpretation of my sister in law’s artwork that I previously made into a cross stitch as well! So both of the stockings I set out to do for the year are completed, though we still need to assemble and mail Quinn’s.
Done!
I am still planning on putting the patterns up for sale, though most likely not until AFTER Christmas. We are just too busy with everything else right now.
I did manage some quiet time this afternoon. Ken and the boys headed straight to my mom’s after church so I put Trinity to nap and Echo in the swing (which thankfully today WORKED… it is about 5 or 6 years old now so it working is a bit amazing but new ones are NOT cheap.) and as soon as she settled started wrapping presents. Sadly Echo had a bad night last night and was up from 6 am on wards for over an hour causing me and Ken to have a nice sleepless patch. So she slept in late and then an afternoon nap… well I am not expecting a restful night but at least she seems to have kicked the fever and has not needed any Tylenol today.
Asleep in the swing
Watching Cars
I have been working on my barrettes today. My ribbon stock is in a bit of a mess but I figure I will sort it all out AFTER Christmas.
The boys had a great time with Grandma and Mike. They took them to see Tangled in the local theatre, decorated the tree and met the new dog. While we 3 girls enjoyed the calm and quiet of a boy free home. Ken got himself in a nap while the crew was gone for the movie. I have to say I missed them, quiet is fine and good but not what I signed up for when we decided to have 5 kids. Towards the end of the day I missed the conversation and excitement… just a little! I will go through and post pictures from their day tomorrow. Tonight I need to get my bum in gear and get off the blog!
This week we are going to continue our Advent fun, work on the new math work books and hopefully spend some time in the snow. I have to take Echo out for at least a picture. But tonight, tonight I am working on barrettes, baby books and other odds and ends… after all as of tonight we are officially vehicle free!
Ready for Bed!