Mommathon

Liam has been busy cutting pictures from magazines so that he can use them as visual aides when writing his letter to Santa. He said he wanted to make sure that Santa knew what the toys looked like. He was also sure to include the descriptions of the toys so that Santa would know what else came with the toy. Someone is going to be very disappointed on Christmas morning. Hopefully he will forget about some of the things he cut out and perhaps he will get some of them for his birthday which is what Santa had to do last year because Liam sent his letter too late.

These are the pictures he has cut out. He has started glueing them to paper. He has quite a little operation going here.

Last night in the car we were listening to a beautiful rendition of O, Holy Night when Liam said, "Mom, doesn't this song make you want to just sway your head from side to side?" So, we were driving around listening to Christmas music swaying our heads from side to side and probably getting a few stares from other drivers. Oh well, I guess they just aren't in the groove of the holiday season yet.

This is the diary of a girl who grew up in the 70's. The diary is from when she is 13 until she is 18. It is easy to relate to the angst she goes through while dealing with her family, friends, boys, and her faith. I think it reflects the troubles, worries, ups and downs, joys and sorrows that every teenage girl experiences.

I finished another class tonight! Yippee! I have two more semesters (this spring and summer) to go and then I will be done! The last two are going to be the most time consuming, too, since I have to do three case studies, two of which are VERY in depth and I also have to take a comprehensive test in there somewhere to prove that I actually learned something, oh, and then we are going to be moving in the middle of all of that. Sounds like fun, huh? I am sure I will look back at all of it in September and smile.

Liam HAD to decorate the tree today. So we dragged it out of the basement and let the festivities begin. Liam did most of the decorating and Sean put the star on top. Colm wasn't interested in decorating, so he played us a tune on his whistle-instrument thing.





You have absolutely no idea what I went through to get this picture. I tried to take a pic of the boys together, but it was clear that that was not going to happen...so I did them separately. Colm was doing everything but sitting up nicely and smiling for several pictures (God bless digital cameras!) The promise of an M&M got him to sit like this...finally!

Today was our church's Christmas Family Festival. First, we went and talked to Santa. Liam had a list for him which included two walking hands (it's a Halloween toy he saw in a catalog) and a truck. Colm was not happy about sitting with Santa, so we made it a family portrait instead of just the boys.

Then we had a yummy pancake breakfast provided by the K of C.

Then the boys made some crafts, like a sticker nativity scene, a Christmas button and a Christmas lace-up project. We also colored some Christmas coloring sheets.

They also had a cookie walk (both the boys won some cookies) and we decorated birthday cupcakes for Jesus' birthday.


A good time was had by all!

We finally went outside and played in the white stuff this afternoon after naps. The boys wanted to play in it this morning, but it was only 19 degrees outside, after naps it was 32 degrees so I figured we had better seize the moment. It was still cold though and it took us longer to get ready to go outside than we actually spent outside.