Magic Moments

 If I could choose a word for Christmas this year, I'd say it was eventful. For as slow as 2020 seemed at times with most things canceled, Christmas was thankfully a normal Christmas for us. After celebrating with my parents the weekend before Christmas, we came home to a sick kitty. Clementine was not herself, had most likely thrown up a hair tie, and needed to go to the vet. She ended up staying over night, needing xrays, bloodwork, and an IV, and THANKFULLY came home after 36 hours and finished recovering. She's back to her normal self and we're thankful she is ok. It was a lesson that God cares even for animals as we felt silly praying, but know we can talk to Jesus about anything. After the Clementine episode it was time to start getting ready for Christmas. I prepped egg bakes and veggies and muffins for brunch, put together a hot cocoa bar, finished wrapping presents, made up beds for guests, and the gang arrived. Christmas morning I told my 18 year old nephews they ...

 We celebrated Christmas with Pappy and Marme over the weekend. Pappy and Marme actually came up to the cabin on Thursday and then took Aiden, Sage, and Cade home with them so Tom and I had a night to ourselves before we went to Iowa on Friday. Marme had her hands FULL and she pulled it all off without a hitch. Jack Jingle visited the boys while in Iowa, the tooth fairy came to Pappy and Marme's house for Sage, Marme took the two littles for a haircut, AND they made gingerbread houses....all before Tom and I got there. We had a steak dinner for a belated birthday celebration for Sage. Ami, Will, Teddy and Annabelle all came on Saturday for Christmas and it was the very best day. It was sooo fun to see all the boys play together and my three boys are just smitten with Annabelle. We were all spoiled at Christmas and I can't wait until we are all together again.  We came home from Pappy and Marme's and right away started delivering bird seed wreaths. I am so hopeful that tomor...

 I'm trying to wrap up all loose ends as quickly as I can so I can go to bed. I LOVE the quiet of the night after the kids go to bed and I can lay in bed and watch TV. It's my unwinding time from all the business of the day. The days have been so BUSY. I'm drowning in bird seed. The boys have 90 bird seed wreaths made. I think we need to do one more batch in the morning and then we'll be finished and Tom and the boys will deliver next week. WHEW!  Yesterday I got home from errands and the boys decided that Jack Jingle didn't want to be a soloist so they made him a band. Jovie also played the guitar and out of Legos they made a trombone, drum set, piano, and harmonica. They also made stadium seating for all the concert goers. They put our Alexa in the middle and cued up Jingle Bells and it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. Tonight Jack Jingle is having a snowball fight with some of the guys in the neighborhood.  Cade is really into making forts with umbrellas....

Our Elf has been busy. He's roasted marshmallows and left s'more ingredients for the boys. That naughty Elf also tee-peed our tree and painted Tom's toe nails. Tonight Tom went to tuck the boys into bed and discovered that Sage and Cade we wearing two layers of soaking wet socks. Evidently Aiden convinced them this was necessary so that they wouldn't wake up with painted toenails. Sage was so horrified that Tom had painted toenails that he even refused to look at them. HAHA. Anyway, Jack Jingle is much more behaved tonight and is putting on a nice Christmas concert for some friends.  Last night we got pizza and drove to Maple Grove to see a nativity light display. The nativity light display was a complete dud. I normally would never say such a thing about the Nativity, but the "display" consisted of a VERY simplified version of the birth of Jesus written on a few signs. I'm kind of shocked this kind of think was advertised. So, we drove 45 minutes one way ...