Talk about Survivor Weekend. We don't just mean the show either. Altho we are BIG fans of the show and are TOTALLY rooting for our KC gal, Danni. We will watch tomorrow night with our fingers crossed, but with fairly low expectations, b/c our fav rarely wins.
On another note, we got 10+ inches of snow on Wed and Thurs. It promptly got COLD, below 0 so we missed 2 days of school. I am wondering how MN moms cope with wet clothes all the time. I think I did 400 loads of laundry in one day, well maybe only 10 but it seemed like more. There must be a trick to it that I don't know. It did make this mom pretty CRANKY. I did play nice mom and let them play in the Xmas stamps and they had fun stamping and stamping. BTW Oxiclean will get out red ink from a 5 yr old's nice shirt if promptly dealt with--argh!! We watched some Xmas tv and they played a ton of games.
I got almost all my Xmas greetings ready to mail with the good help of my main techie, Mark, and a good stamper, Kat. Kat was in from the sledding as Abby ran over her with the sled on Thurs. Abby was going down the hill with her eyes closed--to see how it felt. Kat has been on a heating pad, but did make it to ball practice last night and to her game today.
On the final Survivor note, Hannah, Abby and Emily and I went to the nursing home for the annual Xmas party. This makes 5 years of Xmas at the Alzheimer's Unit. Yikes! Mom was dressed in her Xmas duds and they did a really good job helping everyone get their hair fixed at the salon and a bit of makeup. Mom had lots of smiles for us, and watched Em and smiled. She even tried to sing a few Xmas carols and smiled at my singing. (totally normal reaction. lol) She recognized her fav, White Christmas. I only teared up a couple times, and was glad we went. It's too hard to think about her sitting alone with everyone else having some family there, not that she would know the difference, but I would. I missed Kat's Sat ball game, but will get to see them tomorrow and Mon night. Always another game. :)
Tonight H and Kat and I are going to see The Nutcracker at Ray S High School. Our friends, Haylee and Jillian are dancing. Jilly is Clarissa and we can't wait to see her. :)
The whole month of December is about Surviving. :) My shopping is at about 1/2 way done. Our Xmas travel plans are making us and not them, will have to break the news to M softly. :) Time to stir up some Hamburger Helper, another Survivor food, and wash some heads before we go. Go Danni!!! Hang in there everyone!! Later I will post my new fav recipe that I feel burdened to share!!! So GOOD!!!
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Here I am commented on my own site, but one correction needed to be made and I don't know how to edit this blog after I posted. About the Nutcracker, Jillian was CLARA, not Clarissa. She was a DOLL and her soccer-lovin sister, Haylee was a lovely flower. Such a nice time.
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