Christmas

The kids loved Christmas!  I can't tell you how many times I heard Duncan telling the girls they weren't getting laptops.  

Jason loved his fuzzy socks!

Gotta get a picture with all of them and their fuzzy socks.

This year we made sure that the kids knew which cousin had them for Christmas.  Lauren was so excited to give Duncan his gift.

Max had Tori.  

Taylor had Sam

Mitch had Jason.  We had to make Jason get his present and open it.  The Milne's did well.  Jason loved all his stimming toys!

Duncan recieved gloves, underwear, and socks.  Then Grandma sent him down the hall to look under her bed.  Yes....he liked his gift.

Christmas Eve

It has turned into a tradition to spend Christmas Eve at Aunt Leslie and Uncle Jon's house.  We have dinner and hand out.  This year Duncan brought his guitar and Uncle Jeff gave Duncan a bit of a guitar lesson.  

This is the crowd listening to Uncle Jeff play.

My sweet and beautiful girls.

Jason had a melt down for about an hour.  This is something that started happening more and more often this year.  Especially through the holidays.  There is just too much going on.  

After getting a good thrashing from Jason it was wonderful to have him need me.  He clung to my hand and wouldn't let me move as he fell asleep.  

I love that he is affectionate.  Sometimes I wish he was a little more Daddy clingy but I love this little bugger!

December 23rd

iPad cords are fragile!

I cannot tell you how much money we have spent on ipad cords.  Jason stims with them.  It doesn't matter how many times I take it away from him, and replace it with something else, the boy loves his cords.  In desperation I got a plug and taped it to an extension cord.  I wrapped the cord itself in electricians tape hoping to save it for a little while.  The cord died as quickly as the rest.  However I love the taped plug!  I always know where that one is.  I also have found the locations with the cheapest cords.  Walgreens and Mavrick.  Who knew?

December 23rd

Sometimes Jason starts not drinking.  There isn't anything I can do to convince him to drink water, juice....anything besides mt. dew.

In those cases I go and buy all the banana ice pix they have at smiths.  You should see the look I get from people.  =)

December 22nd

I made the kids go outside and take a Christmas picture before church.  After I fought them all to take the picture I realized that their were old rusty cars in the back ground.  It's good to have a talented husband that knows how to photo shop.  

Either way I have cute kids!

December 20th

We took the kids to Kneaders one night for dinner, and Duncan become obsessed with getting apple pie.  He even had to order it to get one.  So after getting all the kids to school, Duncan and I went to Kneaders and he shared his apple pie.  He ordered it and purchased it and then insisted that we share.  

How lucky am I?

And since I had hot apple pie for breakfast I cleared off the driveway.  This was actually quite a hard feat.  I had let the snow freeze so I had to use a snub nosed shovel to clean it off.

December 19th

I apologize to you as readers....if I have any.

It's been a hard few months and so once again....I'm going to try and catch up on this thing.

Duncan had to give a presentation on Hades the God of the Underworld.  When Duncan does something he likes to go all out!  He told me he needed a beard and a wig.  When he asked me for this we had no funds left for about a week.  So instead of telling him no, I took some gray yarn I had and went to work.  I found a free beard pattern on line and started crocheting.  Once I got the beard done I had to figure out what to do about the hair.  I tried a different pattern but it was going so slowly that I gave up.  Instead I just faked a net hat and then added the fringe.  I was amazed how good it turned out.  Duncan was so excited that it made it all worth the time I put into the silly thing.