MonkeyBoy has started saying grace at dinner time. We all hold hands and then he recites The Simpson’s prayer:
Rub a dub dub,
Thanks for the grub.
Yay, God!
Amen.
Tonight at dinner he mixed it up a bit.
Rub a dub dub,
Thanks for the grub.
Yay, God.
Dot Com.
I think he’s definitely a techie like his folks.
And in the car this [...]
The tree has been taken down and chopped up for recycling. As I packed away ornaments, I had to snap a few of this year’s additions to the tree. MonkeyBoy made these at preschool – aren’t they precious?
One of my friends did a Christmas craft countdown on her blog this month, showcasing her [...]
I had grand hopes of baking twelve different types of cookies this season, but so far it hasn’t happened. I have been cooking up a storm with main courses, side dishes, and various desserts (including red velvet “Happy Birthday, Jesus” cupcakes for Christmas day), so at least I haven’t slacked off in the cooking [...]
A bag of coal at Christmas time usually doesn’t indicate niceness. Oh, but wait, it’s charcoal.
Since we have both sides of the family in town for the holidays and a freezer full of ham and turkey from a grocery store sale in November, we decided to splurge and buy ourselves a Big Green Egg [...]
are not decked. But the living room is decorated for the season.
First we had to celebrate the season by ceremoniously hacking down a living tree. We went to one of my friend’s tree farms as we’ve done for the past few years. We’ve also started a odd tradition of seeing how long [...]
The boys are out shopping and I’m supposed to be cleaning the house, working on Christmas cards, baking, decorating the house and tree for the holiday, and finishing Christmas presents. My parents are arriving sometime today and MonkeyMan’s female relatives are arriving in a day or so, and the house is not in any [...]
I’m so exhausted tonight. It’s been a long weekend. I had two parties yesterday – one was a birthday party for one of MonkeyBoy’s friends and the other was an annual holiday party with a group of my friends (some of whom were also at the birthday party so I got to [...]
Not at all interested in Santa again this year. He refused to even remove his coat and clung to me like nobody’s business when I tried to set him on Santa’s lap. He told me “That was scary” when I stopped taking pictures. Of course, as soon as I downloaded the shots [...]
I sure do spend a lot of time in the car. As proof, I hit a milestone this weekend.
The digital number flipping is not nearly as exciting as the old rotary analog odometer dial turning over.
I made robot cupcakes for a birthday party this weekend. I think they turned out [...]
After four months on the market, we let our listing expire yesterday. We’d had two showings in those four months. One was a scheduled showing where the people bought a house with wood floors instead, and one was a wild rapping on the door by a Realtor with “investors” who turned out to not [...]