Well, apparently I fell off the wagon. I managed to blog one whole time in the month of December.

And it wasn’t for lack of trying. I actually started a few posts, but never managed to finish them. Add a whole week in the High Desert, where I have full internet access and a computer that won’t allow WP to work no matter what I do, and the month goes poof.

Christmas was spent with my parents, brother, and grandmother in the High Desert. New years was spent at SAJ’s san SAJ and BB.

All in all the holidays went well.

The girls got just about everything they wanted, wait, scratch that, with the addition of $25 cash EACH, they did get everything they wanted. I got new pj’s, slippers, cd’s and Meet the Robinsons. Shawn got pants, pj’s a new front pocket wallet, a Brooks and Dunn cd, Pirates 3, the new Die Hard, and Fantastic 4 and the Silver Surfer. Everyone was happy.

For those of you checking out Flickr, I apologize for the lack of photos from Christmas, my brother took all the photos and I just haven’t uploaded from the disk to the computer yet. But there will be more coming.

The good news is that after getting about 10 decent shots of Rapunzel all last year, I think we made up for it today.

Not to mention the worlds most awesome sunset. We stayed until it was gone and you could no longer see Catalina.

Things here are bustling with the Christmas spirit.

The girls are constantly counting the links left to check how many days until we leave for Hesperia and until Santa comes. It’s cute yet annoying at the same time. I mean you can only handle hearing, “can we take another link off yet?”, so many times.

The girls Christmas gifts for all their Grandma’s are almost complete. I’m not posting photos of them until after they’ve been given to the proper Grandma. Sorry, there will be no peeking allowed.

My Christmas cards will *fingers crossed* go out in the mail this week.

Shawn is working for a construction guy right now. We decided last weekend that he was probably going to have to go back out on the road and was going to tell his boss Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. When he got to work on Monday, he was told that he wasn’t needed at the shop anymore. Tuesday he went to Kedge’s shop, she sent him in to talk to the office manager, and he was hired by the guy on the spot to help out g\for the week. The good news is that he goes back on Monday and is supposed to give the guy, also named Jim like his last boss, what’s up with him and the whole Jim thinking, anyways, his information. I’m hoping this means a legal job with at least a 1099.

As SAJ would say, Hast Pasta, catch you later.

And thanks to SAJ I found a way to make it snow inside.

The large snowflake was made using 8 1/2″ pieces, the medium 4 1/4″, and the small 2 1/8″. The medium size is a great size as a tree topper.

Here are the directions. The only thing that I did differently was to use a glue stick instead of a stapler on the two smaller sizes. But I did use the stapler to attach the pieces together on the medium one. The small is way to small to use a stapler anywhere.

This was fun and pretty simple. I think SuperChic could handle it with a little help and a lot of supervision. Older kids will have a blast. The kids will be making these in about two weeks. I’ll post photos of the chaos.

Tuesday the kids made paper chains that I’m sure you all remember from elementary school. They count down from December 1st to December 24th by taking one piece off every day.

And I completed my Christmas cards. Last year I only got two made. So this was definitely progress.

The countdown to Christmas break and Christmas day has officially begun.

All the kids made a chain calendar to count down to Christmas Eve. I only took a few photos and none of them wee good enough to post.

I have three more projects for them to do. One for each week before Christmas. We will be making reindeer, snowmen, and Christmas trees.

And I made my Christmas cards today. Tomorrow I’m going to try to finish BB’s dress. I need to make the overskirt, sleeves, and cape.

Photo by SAJ