Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Awesome Giveaway! Seriously...

Obviously I'm doing this for an entry into one of the most amazing giveaways EVER!! Go to Today's Mama to check it out.

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family? I really just want them to be happy and understand the real reason we celebrate Christmas.
2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition? We wake up super early and while the kids are opening their stockings I call Grammy and Papa so they can come watch them open presents. Then we have our traditional Christmas morning Crepes, poached eggs, and bacon.
3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?That's a hard one. Probably either an entire pamper mom day or an entire day with Mike without worrying about the kids.
4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money? I do the 12 days on the A.R.K. Where I do Acts of Random Kindness for the kids and then on the last day we do something for a neighbor.
5. What games did you play with your family growing up? What games didn't we play? We were a board game playing family.
6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood? Christmas breakfast.
7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip? Hawaii
8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? Jercie wants a DSi I want Mario Kart since the baby broke mine, and Blaze would like any Lego ds or wii game. There are many more I'm sure.



Tuesday, November 23, 2010

One proud momma

I know I'm a little late posting about this but here it is. I went to the kids' parent teacher conferences at the beginning of the month. Here's what I learned...
Jercie is in the top reading group in the second grade. She reads like no other. She loves the Diary of a Wimpy kid books and Beverly Cleary. Some of the books they send home put me to sleep, but she reads them anyway. Even though math isn't her strongest subject she is still above average. She's a good kid, even if her attitude shadows it sometimes.
Blaze is ridiculously smart as well. He passed all his letters off in 3 weeks. He is on his 7th sight word list. He loves doing homework. We would do it all night if I had the patience and time. His high scores are in math.
I decided last night that the reason I was blessed with smart kids is because of my impatience. Blaze tests it sometimes, but I think he likes to mess with me.
Even though Kaia doesn't have parent teacher conferences I still think she's smart. She counts to 10 and only forgets 5. She loves to run and sing and help Blaze with his homework. She hates having her hair combed so she wears a lot of hats. Well she starts off wearing the hat but within 20 minutes is lost somewhere.




Thursday, November 18, 2010

Happy Birthday to Jercie

I'm just not sure how this sweet little tiny baby

turned into this sweet sassy 8 year old...

Happy Birthday Jercie Girl!

The kids

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