Hello- we got an email from Flat Geetle the other day, check out that blog post below. We had a lot of snow on Tuesday night/Wednesday. The kids still had school, although our peeps in WI were home on a snow day. (wimps). But, I wonder if we will have a day off tomorrow, since the wind chill is expected to be -15 degrees here.
While Geetle and Pookie braved the cold to attend school on Wednesday, Giggles and I holed up at home. We played toy kitchen for a while. She loves that. She has a set of plastic vegetables that are held together with velcro, so you can “slice” them with a toy knife. She uses that knife pretty well, as long as we are talkinga bout plastic veggies and a plastic knife. After our toy kitchen fun, we went upstairs to clean out the real pantry. I cleaned, she ate. Literally. Everything I pulled out of the pantry, she wanted to eat. I think she ended up with raisins, sesame crackers and pizza goldfish.
We must have done a great job, because now we have a whole empty shelf! I condensed a few boxes, organized others. We did not really get rid of a lot, but some. I found a giant Slim Jim in the pantry that I had bought for BAGD a while back. I guess it got lost in there, and he never found it. I told Giggles to give it to Daddy the next time he wandered up from the basement for coffee. (he is still working at home). She misunderstood and jumped right off her “helping chair” and ran over to the cat door which leads to the basement stairs. (cats are gone, door is not). She stuck the Slim Jim thru the cat door, waved it and yelled “Here Daddddeee! Daddeeee! Here you go! Is for you!” He, of course, was not anywhere near the cat door or the basement stairs, so only I got to laugh at that one.
After our cleaning, we made Sweet Potato Muffins, Chocolate Pudding and Jello Jigglers. When I clean the pantry, I have an undeniable urge to “cook some of it up” so I always find myself baking right after. We ate the muffins for lunch and were pleased to discover (thanks to the custom recipe section of LoseIt.com on my iPod) that each muffin is only 109 calories. And tasty too.
Giggles was ready for a nap early, since we had also shoveled the driveway and sidewalk that morning. Well, I did, while she and the big kids played and waited for the bus to come. While she napped, I wrapped. Chrismas presents. Lots of them. Not done yet. Whoohee. I think I have about 10 more to do. Giggles actually woke up earlier than I expected, so I let her come into the secret wrapping zone and “help” me. That means she played with some toys that I hope she will forget about until 12/25. Only a few of them were hers, she mostly played with the tape!
When the big kids got home from school we did a quick round of homework and then put up our tree. This was a tricky year for us, its our first time with a real (fake) tree in a few years. The last few years we just did our felt tree. But, this year we decided to do both. Our new real (fake) tree is almost 8 feet tall, and much bigger than I expected, so we had to find a good place for it. Our house is pretty lived in…meaning that we have stuff everywhere and its pretty much adequately filled. Finding room for a Christmas tree is always hard, right?
We decided to put our real (fake) tree in the eat-in area of our kitchen. That probably sounds weird, but its sort of a cool place. Its a natural alcove, its in front of a window and an outlet. Its got walls/counter on 3 sides so the present pile will be contained. Its near the living room where we hang out, so we can see the tree at night. And, we don’t eat in the eat in. We made it into what we call “The Art Area” with a kids table, chairs and art cubbies. We did that several years ago, so we never really think of it as part of the kitchen any more anyway.
Pookie loves to decorate Christmas trees. He really started to get into it last year. Not sure why. But he is serious about it and his attention span is longer and more enthusiastic than you would expect from any 6 year old boy. He and Geetle did a great job with the tree this year….BAGD and I only had to reposition about 40% of the ornaments after they went to bed (shhhh!). Giggles tried very hard to help, but the ornaments did not cooperate. But she did have a lot of fun asking “What that Mommee?” about every ornament I pulled out of the box.
I wonder if the big kids will be home from school tomorrow. If not, Giggles and I will have to decide if we want to brave the cold to do our normal Thursday morning Mcdonalds PlayLand playdate or not. I can already tell you that I am NOT taking Giggles and EE swimming tomorrow after McDonalds, like I usually do. It just seems like a good day to stay in. But a little trip down the street to McDonalds would be Ok, I think. If there is a snow day, maybe we can all go. I wonder what the morning will bring…..
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