IT'S ABOUT ME, MY BOYS AND A LITTLE CRAFTING THROWN INTO THE MIX!
Sam was putting away laundry in his room and I found Jack sitting under Sam’s desk, thinking.
He looked at me and said, “I can breath under water.”
Me: “OK”
Jack: “You want to me to show you?”
Me: “Yes.”
“See, I can breath under water.”
Notice the glass of water on top of the desk.
Jack is “breathing” under water.
Get it?
On Friday, Jason had a little fixer upper on his hip. I know, I know…your immediate question is did we get to keep the little hat. No. No we did not. The fancy green top. No. That stayed at the hospital too.
What he did get to bring home was a fixed hip. Long story short, Jason hip bone was rubbing on his labrum, which then tore. If he didn’t fix it, eventually the labrum would break…snap…come apart? Which would mean a hip replacement. So off to surgery he went!
The doctor took pictures AND a video for us to view on our own. I think I will skip the video. The pictures were graphic enough.
Happy to report that he is doing really well. Getting a little stir crazy, but he is a good patient. He will be pretty immobile for a couple of weeks, but he already has several little “outings” in mind for us to do during the day. (There goes nap time!)
Last night we threw a bug surprise party for my dad and it was a huge success and he was extremely surprised! It was wonderful to see the room full of people that came to celebrate him!
Yesterday I did some laundry and it was not successful! No, I did not wash my whites with my reds. I washed an entire box of 120 fabric softener sheets with my large load of laundry.
WHAT? How does that happen? Well, Let me tell ya…
I went grocery shopping and bought a brand new box a fabric softener sheets. 120 count to be exact. I had a laundry basket beside the basement door, so I threw the box of fabric softener sheets into the basket on top of the dirty laundry in the basket. Then I went and gathered other dirty laundry and put it all in the same basket, covering the box.
I went downstairs and decided just to dump the items in the laundry basket right into the washer, not sorting the laundry and never thinking about the box of fabric sheets or seeing them because they were buried between laundry.
However, I did remember them when I opened the finished load.
The white pieces are actually fabric softener sheets..in HUGE clumps! Brown…the box. Which I was pleased, not please, how bio-degradable it happens to be!
So I started to clean up…not pretty. The brown is the box. UGH!! And yes, that brown was all over the clothes.
And here is a pile of 100+ fabric sheets.
At least the box was on sale. And yes, the clothes were super soft…hahaha!
For the last 6 years, my mom takes the boys to a local cookie walk. It’s always the first Saturday of December and is a part of kicking off our Christmas Traditions, as well as me trying to eat every cookie possible before the boys!
One of our most favorite people, Nancy, has always helped the boys pick out their cookies! She first helped them in their choosing in December 2010.
An again on Saturday~Nancy hasn’t changed a bit!
Hope you enjoyed the snow on Sunday and have kicked off a few of FUN your holiday traditions!
I cannot believe it was a week ago that I was out shopping for 12 hours on Black Friday. We started at 10 in the morning and gave it up at 10:00 that night. Awesome day!
But first…a few pictures from Thanksgiving Day. This year, Jason and I took on preparing the entire meal.
Of course, Jason had to fish out the innards of the turkey. If you do not know at this time, I cannot stand raw meat and absolutely refuse to stick my hand/arm up that bird. Anyway, while Jason was trying to get the innards out, he kept saying, “I can’t get my hand in there! My arm is going to get stuck!! This bird’s chest is just to small!” At one point, he even held up the turkey to show how stuck his hand was.
Jason then recruited Jack to help him pull our the extra parts. Jack said, “NO WAY!” until I suggested a rubber glove.
Jack soon started joining Jason with the “It’s too small! I can’t get the parts out (What parts am I pulling out?)!”
I finally looked over to check out issue and said, “Can I make a suggestion? If you pull the innards out of the turkey’s rear end instead of its neck, you may have better luck.”
Complete silence. (that says it all)
Jason taught the kids how to pull a rubber glove all the way over their noses, blow it up and let it go to shoot across the room. Good Thanksgiving activity.
Jack had pumpkin pie for the first time and realized he was mising a little slice of heaven!
Sam is officially as tall as my dad. Well, maybe my dad has about a half inch on Sam.
And then it was Black Friday!
Mom and I started with coffee and looking over Christmas lists the bookstore to plan our day. Perfect start for holiday shopping!
We then headed to stores around the mall, where Megan joined us at the new Container Store! That is definitely one of my new favorite places!
(I think we have a photo bomber in the background!)
The last stop were a few stores in the mall. Mom wanted to look at winter coats and we had to pass the shoe section. Glad shoes were not on my list!
We looked around and there was not one sales person in the area. It was almost like they just left and I do not blame them!
So a successful thanksgiving, a successful Black Friday and a successful Christmas decorating the house weekend!
Hope you enjoyed your time and didn’t get you hand stuck in a turkey’s neck! 🙂
So the virus that Jack had a couple weeks ago. The one that took him out for about a week. Well, Jason has it now. He went to bed very early Sunday night. I walked into our bathroom and saw this and immediately thought..that’s not good.
Happy to let you know that he is feeling much better…it must have beeen all that sleep he got on Sunday night!
Unfortunately when I picked up Sam from basketball, the first thing he said was, “My throat is sore…”
UGH!
I saw this quote and doesn’t it make great sense! I think sometimes our own worst enemy is ourselves. We can beat ourselves up pretty well and pretty hard. A little self care and kindness goes a long with with yourself just as much as it does for others.
And this is what I am hoping to do this weekend!
Enjoy your time with family and friends!
See you back on Monday!!
I missed yesterday’s post because we were in Minneapolis all weekend for a little shopping and for the Vikings game! Skol Vikings!
All ready to head to the game!
Jack is finally getting over his cold/sickness. He had a virus and it really did take it out of him for about a week. So not like him! He felt more himself on Monday then he has for a long time
We headed up with friends that are huge Cardinal fans. It was a fun rivalry between the families…especially since the best team won! (hee hee)
For Christmas last year, I purchased a Vikings brick for Jason. We found it and took a family photo. The arrow is pointing to our brick. Remember…the family that wears hats together stays together! It was COLD walking to the stadium. Jack and I were very pleased to have worn our winter gear!!
I shared with Sam how he makes it almost impossible to crop photos! He is so tall that I can barely get Jack’s chin in the photo, along with the top of Sam’s head! I am actually standing on my tip toes to see over Jack’s head. Soon, I will be the one in the front. 
Our seats are two and two. Sam and Jason sit right behind Jack and me. That way, we don’t have to try to see over Sam and they can talk football.
Jack saw his favorite fan Sir V! This is Jack’s “mean” face.
Jack said, “Mom. Did you see his eyes? I sure hope those were contacts!”
Another fun filled weekend with a big win from the Cyclones and the Vikings…it doesn’t get much better than that (except for turkey eating, naps and shopping!)