Hello, Beauties!!
I'm an awful blogger, I know. But I'm here, right now, so...Ta da!!
We are all doing pretty good these days. Winston is so big. I was four feet and eight inches tall in the fourth grade. My oldest son is two inches away from being four feet tall and he is four years old!
Tomorrow is his big Hanukkah show at school (where he is reading and ready for Kindergarten, according to his teacher). He has an assigned seat where I have to bring him in the morning so he can get his flashy golden gelt costume on. We are both very excited.
Wednesday is still the most silly and hilarious boy I've ever known. He turned three, you know, and he is most assuredly not a baby anymore. Now, if we could just get him to potty in the potty it would be glorious. He is right at the age where he is so very big, but I can still scoop him up for spontaneous snuggles without much of a fight.
Minnow is huge. He is divinely cute. Minnow is my favorite snack and just the most snuggly bug of a baby I've ever known. He is laughing, and squiggling, and charming everyone he meets. He got fussy in Barnes and Noble yesterday and caught the attention of the four or five ladies in line. I turned him toward the Giant! Yellow! Gift Wrapping! Sign! and he started laughing. He won over every single one of those women in a flash.
What else do I need to tell you? Thanksgiving was darn tootin'. Whatever that means. My food turned out better than it ever has in the past. Wednesday had two friends come and play on his birthday. They decorated enormous sugar cookies, are squash-berry muffins, and played outside until Winston came in and said, "I'm having a big problem out there, Mommy! I'm too tired to be nice anymore!".
We're spending Christmas at home; a tradition my Mama started in my own family that I appreciated then and do even more so now. A visit to my Grandmother's house and The Mr.'s Dad's house are in the works for after Christmas.
The Mr.'s Dad fell about two weeks ago and broke his leg. They expect him to be fine, but he is tired of being in the hospital and kind of down-in-the-dumps. His wife sent the most beautiful quilt for Minnow with the entire alphabet embroidered on it. His name is at the bottom, with a well placed "Z" to finish it out.
I think I'm just rambling now, but I've missed you so, little blog o'mine.
Some questions I've been pondering: What is a good way to introduce Karate to Winston before he starts once a week next year? Have any of you ever cooked turnips and LIKED them (I really want to try them this holiday season)? Does anyone have a good, Christmas-y, molded, jello salad recipe? I've always wanted to make one of those too.
Love to all of you.....
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2 comments:
Oh, an alphabet quilt sounds wonderful!
I have a good jello salad but it's not molded---I'm not sure if it would turn out of a mold nicely or not.
You take a can of jellied cranberry sauce and mix it (I use a mixer) with two of the small boxes of raspberry jello powder. I like to use the sugar-free but the original recipe calls for the regular sugar kind.
Then you add 2 cups of boiling water and mix it up well. Add 2 T. lemon juice.
Put it in the fridge in a 5-6 cup bowl and stir it every half hour or so until it's partially thickened, and then add a bag of thawed frozen raspberries and chill until set.
I know this is hardcore late lady but boil up your turnips, smash it up with butter and mix it up in mashed potato. Nom nomtastic xx
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