Happy Holidays to any LJ friends who are hanging out there in the interwebs.  I hope you have a happy and healthy 2015 ( Read more... )

Very pretty and unexpected.  I hope all of you who celebrate it have a Merry Christmas!  We are spending it here with my parents and brother and then flying to Oklahoma to see the in-laws just after.  OKC is due to get something around 6 inches of snow tomorrow, so the kids are very excited.  My packing plans, not so much ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a good holiday and that you have fabulous New Year's plans to help me live vicariously through you, as I have no New Year's plans.  My hubby and I did get to do an overnight in DC thanks to my parents being here to babysit and to celebrate both X-mas and hubby's 40th birthday, which was at the end of November.  We saw "Spoiler ( Read more... )

I hope all of you out there who celebrate Christmas are having a great one.  So far so good in my house.  Tomorrow morning is set to be crazy -- I think my kids will be really happy with the giant pile of presents under the tree and what Santa brings them.  I have put our holiday card under the cut, if you'd like to see a recent pic.  The pics came ( Read more... )

Tonight my 7 year old told me his friend lied to him because the friend said that Santa doesn't exist and it is just your parents.  Which my kids (even the 10 year old?) disagreed with.  My 7 year old's logic is that his parents would never buy him and his brother a 10 foot basketball hoop for the driveway.  And I agreed that there are plenty of ( Read more... )