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Noth’n Says Christmas Like…

by admin on December 8, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Holiday Messages, People In My Heart with 4 Comments

Like a knock at the door just after breakfast,
and a friend standing there in -35 weather to bring you a treat!
I didn’t exactly know what to say when I saw Kim on my step in a beautiful red coat.
She had brought some of her home made Pepernoten cookies (a Mennonite tradition)!
I was humbled because I had made a little comment on a photo of hers about childhood memories wrapped around these treats.
I really do cherish such kindness and thoughtfulness.

As a little girl I used to attend a little Mennonite Chapel.
Each Christmas they would have bake sales and for 50cents I would buy a pretty big tub of peppernuts from the older ladies.
I would then rush home and devour them all alone in my room.
I looked forward to them every year.
They really are a perfect winter treat!

Little Woman, Baby Boy and I ate them with some very warm tea in between naps all afternoon…
no reason to leave the house when you have cookies, tea and babies to snuggle!
Thanks so much Kim:)

Merry Christmas!

TTFN

Craft Day!

by admin on December 6, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages with 5 Comments
I am not a craft person. Not enough patience or good ideas and I am overwhelmed when ever I try to find all the stuff needed to do crafts, BUT once a year I find I end up having a good time doing them with the kids. We always seem to make something around Christmas. The ideas we come up with are pretty humble but we all have a good time. Last year we made angels out of yarn, for the tree, and a silver angel, out of a cereal box and some wrapping paper, for the top of the tree… This year we have three plans and they have kept us busy most of the day.
Garlands of snowmen, gingerbread people and snowflakes for the kitchen (CHECK)
Wreath out of some of the many pine cones collected off of our drive way (COMING SOON)
Decorate all the brown wrapped gifts ( COMING SOON)
The house is a disaster on craft day. All the chores get forgotten as we become wrapped up in our creations (another reason I don’t do this a lot). But today the paper clippings can keep building up on the floor and the dishes can wait for we are having a family adventure!

(Here we all are, still in our pj’s… breakfast clutter not yet removed from the table, we where all so eager to get started!)

TTFN

Decoration Day!

by admin on December 5, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages, My Romance with No comments

And then we decorated the house!This is our second year with a tree and we all agreed we really like our iddy bitty tree a lot. The kids and I worked hard at decorating it and Little Woman put the star on top. I am particularly proud of our star. Our tartan star gets my Scottish pride worked right up, he he he…
Big Girl was amazed at all the Christmas STUFF we had when I started unpacking it. Big Boy was very impressed when he saw decorations he had made through the years and very happy with me when we put them on the tree.

We started the evening with a lovely supper, Christmas music playing in the background, watched Elf while we decorated the house and even managed to get our family photo taken for our Christmas card… to be sent out soon! There wasn’t to much crying and screaming… who am I kidding, I think there was more then last year!

Once the kids where in bed my man and I had a more relaxing time. We had tea and bree cheese with dried cranberries, bananas and spicy almonds. Ahhhh it still sounds good this morning!
As usually my mind is full of little romantic moments I want to have with my family this Christmas season! I hope to find the time to capture some fuzzy Christmas memories, fuzzy moments in time, and put them in a bottle for the cold months of winter that follow the holidays!

TTFN

What Does Your Man Think About Christmas?

by admin on December 4, 2009 in Holiday Messages, My Romance with 1 Comment
Trying to feel more Christmas-y with a question period for my man… ha ha ha, it was interesting…

1. Describe your ideal Christmas?

Lotsa time off with family, that is the only thing that counts.

2. How do you think our expectations differ at Christmas?

I expect to servive the holidays… you are all about the fuzzy moments, a true romantic with visions of sugar plums and fluttery angels dancing around in your plans…

3. Share your thoughts on exchanging gifts?

Awe, thinking about that stuff makes my brain hurt.

4. How do you focus on the true meaning of Christmas, Christs birth?

I don’t, tend to think about it more other times of the year where there isn’t so much din…

Well, this was supposed to be a relationship building exercise to help me get to know my man a little more (got it off of another blog)… but I don’t think my man was taking it seriously… ah well…

TTFN

Christmas Cheer On Sale!

by admin on November 26, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Holiday Messages with 2 Comments


Christmas and sales make me feel cheery:)

The kids and I set up the step today, to go with our ‘fairy lights’ (called that in England according to E-Mom). The ribbons where a dollar each (at the dollar store), garland was on sale for 4.00$ at Zellers and the little sign was only.47 cents (also found at a Zellers sale). We got the Christmas look for a deal!

I am tickled!

TTFN

OUR Lights!

by admin on November 24, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages, Life Keeps Changing with 5 Comments

I had been pleading with my husband for years to let me get Christmas lights. I love the cheery light on the short days of winter and wanted to have my own to plug in each night. We had finally gotten one little string of lights for our Waldheim home and then we moved… and forgot them there…

Well it must be official! We must be in our own home again because we put up lights! We have graduated from one little string to four! I am so happy every night I plug them in! I hope to get one string each year and keep adding to them. It was a family event putting them up. I had a wonderful helper in ‘Big Boy’. He handed me the clips and helped me unwrap the lights but most importantly he held the ladder for me (except when he took the below picture.). Holding the ladder and chatting with me turned out to be very important because I discovered I don’t like being on ladders at all! I was pretty shaky getting down again. It is so funny how we change when we grow old. I remember climbing up and swinging on ladders as a child… we used to play ‘dare devil’ and jump from fence to ladder to roof tops as kids!
The pretty star lights are to ‘Little Woman’s credit. She insist we get them! Such a grand helper she was as we found a few affordable strings of lights.

When Daddy plugged them in for the first time all the children where on the couch watching out our big window. They clapped (even Baby Boy) and a chorus of ‘Ooooh’ and ‘Aaaah’ rang out. There is no snow here yet and it seems so strange!! So for now we decided with shorter days the cheery lights where needed… might as well get them up while the weather is still mild! But the inside will probably wait for a bit! I am not looking forward to removing ‘Baby Boy’ from the Christmas tree constantly…

TTFN

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