Sarah’s Thoughts: My last regular post was recounting Halloween and now here we are, two and a half weeks before Christmas! This is going to be a special year because we're not traveling! We get to celebrate this year at home with Owen, my brother and my parents. In light of my overspending tendencies at Christmas, I’ve been trying to focus on homemade presents. The problem is that I have about 6 x 12 different projects brewing and only 2 1/2 weeks until D-day, not to mention my full-time job and my 2 1/2 year old. Despite these obstacles, I’m spending every spare moment crafting my little heart out. I hope that old saying about it being the thought that counts, is true because there’s a good chance that all of these little crafts are going to turn out pretty hokey.... but, what's a girl to do? In the meantime, I'm loving it!
Low- The nastiness I found when we removed the outer cover of Owen’s car seat. Pulverized crackers, peanut butter and smashed dried cherries...
High- Toss up between getting to spend the afternoon with my brother and my hot Friday night date at the annual Christmas party for all of the dental offices.
Luke Update: When I asked Luke what he’d been up to this week, he said, “Oh, you know. Same old thing. Still dreaming of bigger and better jobs and bigger and better bucks.” He started back to work for the state mid-November and will be there through the end of the legislative session in mid-April. This time of year, there is very little going on in Luke’s office, so if you need any internet research done, he’s your man! Besides working, Luke has been getting out deer hunting on the weekends. He did manage to shoot another deer on his way home from a five day deer hunt, just before Thanksgiving so we are going to make it through another winter! Phew! Luke spent this most recent weekend at home working on our exterior christmas lights. After spending 2 hours out in the 20 degree weather, he discovered that its time to invest in some new lights...
Owen Update: Owen is all about Christmas and he doesn’t even really know about the present part yet. I think he’s going to freak out when he makes that discovery. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Luke was out hunting and I decided to pull out our Christmas decorations from the attic. In order to gain access, I had to back the car out of the garage, fetch the foldable ladder from the shed, assemble it, climb into the attic and retrieve the Christmas boxes and then do it all again in reverse. Needless to say, Owen had some significant “alone time” in the house with the Christmas boxes. When I came inside, it looked like Christmas threw up in the living room. Ornaments all over the floor, rolling under the couch, wire decoration hangers gouged into the carpet, Christmas books and stockings and present tags and lights strewn everywhere, and Owen in the middle of it all shaking and yelling, “Tismas! Its tismis time!” I wish I’d had my camera!
Owen and his daddy
cousins
baby, it's cold outside!
exploring ice.
who knew you could throw a rock onto a lake
and watch it slide?
me and my hot date, out on the town
