On Wednesday I decided I would get ALL my housework done so I could spend all of Thursday working on Christmas presents. I know it probably seems early to be thinking about these things but all the siblings on my side of the family decided, in an effort to save money, it would be fun to make Christmas presents for everyone. Considering how many people we have in our immediate family now (13 adults and 8 cousins), it’s turning out to be a lot of work. But it’s fun. I really shouldn’t complain since it was a little bit my idea.
But it’s fun.
So yesterday I spent the ENTIRE morning making rag dolls. But I haven’t put their hair on yet so they’re a little ugly right now. Then I took Linus to school, Jeremiah was home so I left #2 and #3 with him and went to parent time which was awesome. His class is learning about gears and pulleys for science and the pilgrims for history, Haydn for music and Manet for art. They get to go out to the playground and actually set up a pulley on the monkey bars and try it out. Then next week they are going to ‘time travel’ back to the days of the pilgrims and they get to dress up as either a Native American or a Pilgrim and they are going to make butter and eat it – how fun is that?!
After parent time I ran out to the ‘farm’ and got goat milk, ran back to the house for a bit and tidied up and made a grocery list. Jeremiah decided he was going to take #1 and #2 to see Toy Story 3 at the dollar theater so he took off to go get Linus from school and go to the movie, which left me with the Christianater.
So I swooped him up and went grocery shopping. Shopping with one is infinitely easier than with three. After getting the groceries put away I decided to work on some of the adult Christmas presents which I will not reveal YET. But I will admit that on a whim I decided to try out a recipe for chocolate truffles I had been wanting to try. I made two kinds, a creamy milk chocolate one and a peppermint one. I am in the process, still, of coating the milk chocolate ones with white chocolate which I discovered is rather more difficult than I thought because the dark chocolate melts as you are in the process of putting the white on, anyway, they are coming along.
This morning I was severely behind on laundry – it is amazing how skipping ONE measly little day puts you a total of 3 days behind. So I had a little helper, I guess he felt sorry for me and my mountain, so he climbed the mountain and spread it out, I presume to make it look smaller? I thought he looked so regal sitting there observing his work with his little tie on. He had the tie on because Linus, in the process of cleaning his room, finding Christian’s tie and being himself rather obsessed with ties lately, brought it too me wanting to know if it was his and then finding out it was Christian’s attempted to put it on him. Christian was too busy rearranging the laundry to have a tie put on so Linus gave up and tossed it in the pile.
Which of course I didn’t notice since there was so much of it anyway.
Little Miss On Top of Everything came along, found the tie, sat on top of the owner to hold him down all the while saying in her soft, cunning little voice, “Hold still, Stistin, hold still, put tie on you.”
And thus the tie was put in it’s proper place.
Little Pork Chop. It still has the tags on it since I can’t seem to find a shirt in my stash of boy clothes that he can wear it with.
I later went to check on the kids work that they had been given and found this:
She had ‘made’ her bed and tucked Clarabell in with what is commonly known around here as, “Seese”.
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