Category: Kids

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Wonderful Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas with the family. We had a big brunch after the kids opened their gifts. They weren’t very happy about having to wait for the family arrived, but we had already agreed so they only pouted a little bit. I just laughed at them,because as I mentioned before they had agreed. Fortunately the family wasn’t late for a change and the second the last one arrived the kids dug into the presents like starving animals to food. It was hilarious.

The kids were happy though, they got pretty much everything they asked for and then some, so I am content. I wasn’t sure I would be able to pull it off, but I just barely managed to handle everything. I was shopping for that last present on Christmas eve, and wasn’t sure I would find it. I ended up paying more then I anticipated, but it was so worth it. Hope everyone had a great day too.

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Keeping My Son From Losing His Things

I really love my child, but my son keeps losing his things. Somehow he managed to misplace his jacket at school, and this was not the first time that he did something like this either. He also managed to lose his shoes. How does a person lose their shoes? The answer to that question still escapes me to this day, and it really does not matter because it happened. What I need to do now is focus on trying to prevent him from losing his things. This is starting to get rather expensive!

I sat down and had a long drawn out talk with my son, but we all know how that goes. I am not even sure if he was listening to me. For some reason, kids seem to have this natural ability to tune their parents out. I don’t remember doing this to my parents, but I think I must have. It must be some kind of built in defense mechanism. Then it dawned on me. I needed to start using name labels for kids. This may not prevent my son from losing his things, but it certainly would make it a lot easier to find the items that he keeps losing.

With a label, I would not need to depend on my son to not lose his things. I could handle every single bit of it myself, and all I needed was something as simple as a label. So now it was up to me to find a label that I could use to label everything that my son owned. I had a plan.

Luckily I did not have to look very far. I found stuck on you and labelcity.com. They had a wide assortment of great labels that I could choose from. Now it was only a matter of getting a bunch of labels and adding the everything that my son owned.

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Brrrrrr

Gosh it got cold really quick! The other day we didn’t even need a jacket or sweater, today it is so cold you need hats and gloves as well as your heavy winter coat. This is the reason I have come down with this cold. When the weather goes back and forth dramatically, it make it difficult for my body to keep up. The kids tend to have the same problem as well, more so then I do actually. It isn’t often that I get sick. I just hope that it stays the way it is now and doesn’t get any worse, or I will be laid up in bed for a few days.

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Mine ~ Taylor Swift

I really like Taylor swift. She has nice wholesome music that isn’t full of sexual innuendo. My son really loves her as well. I hope that she comes to concert here sometime soon. I want to surprise him with tickets to the concert. I won’t even tell him where we are going either. I will just take him and he can be totally surprised when she walks out on stage, or at least until we get into the venue.

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One thing left

I only have one thing left to buy for Christmas. I am very thankful for that, because I am tired of having to shop, shop, shop and wrap, wrap, wrap. I know that sounds horrible, but if you had to do as much I have done, you would feel the same way too. Sometimes I can get one of the older kids to help me but it is not always a good idea for them to know what everyone else is getting for Christmas. They have a tendency to blurt stuff out that you don’t want known. It’s a typical kid thing and there is nothing you can do for it, but not allow them to know what you don’t want known. Hehehe.

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Running late today

Blah, I am running so late today. I haven’t gotten anything done that I wanted to before the kids got home and now it looks like I wont. I think I will just give up on it altogether and shoot for tomorrow. Since I don’t have to be up early every day, I can sleep in and hopefully get a good nights sleep. That will make all of the errands and stuff much easier to get done.

Now, I think I will go relax and watch a movie with the kids. I think they are watching a super hero movie. Something called Kick ass. I have never seen it, but it is definitely a kids type movie. Most of the super hero’s are all kids. I will let you know if I like it or not.

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Almost done

Phew! I am almost done with the Christmas shopping. I went this morning and bought a few of the things my son mentioned the last time we were at Wally world. The older he gets the harder it is to shop for him. That is why I usually make a trip to the store with the kids and watch them as the browse and constantly ask me for one thing or another. Works great every time. I already had the the little guy taken care of with all but one thing I picked up today. The older ones are just a little bit more difficult as they transition out of childhood and into young adult or preteen. I think I have this all covered though. Now I just have to wait for my next check and get the last thing for my older son, some stuff for the girl and my man. Then viola’! I will be done. Unfortunately my last check doesn’t come in until Christmas eve. Grrrrr

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Wedding flutes

I found the loveliest Wedding flutes for the toasting. They are an absolute necessity for any wedding. I still have mine from my wedding to the kids father. I will pass them down to my daughter someday. She says that she will use them at her own wedding when she grows up. I cannot wait until the day comes when we can plan her wedding, even though I don’t want her to grow up yet. One day I will look up and that will have happened already. I know that it will seem like it happened over night, because it seems like yesterday when she was born. She is already halfway to womanhood and I begin to feel old, just looking at how much she has grown and changed.

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Wine wedding favors

Oh these are really cool. They are Wine wedding favors that are wine stoppers with heart shapes at the top of them. They are really classy. There are several different styles, like the snow flake one, or the one that looks like a martini glass. I didn’t know that there were this kind of wedding favors available. I told you that I am obsessed with the wedding favors. I just keep finding all kinds of neat stuff. My kids think I am crazy because I keep looking through them, but I don’t mind. If I ever get married again, I will have a good idea of what I want for that wedding.

I already know that I would want an elegant wedding, not just your run of the mill one. I have so many ideas, that my daughter will be hard pressed when she grows up to be able to plan her own wedding without my interference. That sounds bad, but I mean it in a good way. After all, I am a mother and we only want what is best for our children. Nothing but the best is good enough for mine and I freely admit it. Okay, back to work. Later gators!

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White wolf

This is so pretty. I am totally into winter themes with my pictures lately. Of course, that is normal given the season. Sometimes I wish I was the one out there in nature taking the pictures.

I seem to be an observer in life though, as I have chosen a different path, that of motherhood. 🙂