December plans

So a few days ago Smarty was laying in the bed with Hubby.  Just quiet and snuggling when out of the blue Smarty asks "Dad, what kind of light artillery do you think we need to protect our house?"

 Hubby stopped and asked "Protect our house from what?"

"From people who want to get our stuff.  We need to protect our house."

"I don't think we need artillery to protect our house, Son.  It's pretty secure."

That was good for a chuckle!

Yesterday driving to and from preschool, we heard two different versions of Santa Baby on the radio.  Girlie in the back asked both times if it was Christmas tonight or if the singer was "just joking."  Guess she was taking the line "Hurry down the chimney tonight" literally.  I had to explain that the singer was just pretending that it was Christmas night to which she replied "She's being silly!"

It's been a busy week here.  There has been more snow falling which is something that makes the whole house happy.  Even in rain follows closely on  it's heels.  The world is currently white and icy.  Sergeant was sick all last weekend with the flu, and a sore throat for the first part of this week.  All of the kids' tempers are shorter as we approach the holiday, but everyone was happy this morning to know that it's the last school day.  Daddy even has the next two weeks off which is very odd.

There has been baking, baking, and more baking.  Perogs, Oh Henry squares, mocha truffles, shortbread, regular bread, mocha logs (notice two things with the word mocha in them?) and as it is there is extremely little left.  Gifting it all away so we don't eat them all ourselves.  And it's fun.

Monkey has figured out how to get her own diaper off.  After being so lucky that the other three never did, we're paying for it now!  Thankfully she hasn't made a mess, running around bare, but she certainly loves feeling free!  She's been working on getting her own pants on this fall and can get one leg in but not the other.  So she just runs around with one leg in her pants and the other one dragging.  This morning, though, she actually got both legs in and they were on the right way too!  Such a smart cookie!

This holiday is looking so different than usual, I'm almost not sure what we'll do with ourselves.  No doubt that we'll fill the days, though.  I saw some people sledding on a hill near Shearwater this morning and thought that it would be a fun way to spend a morning in the next little bit.  Trips to the library, have friends over, eat popcorn, watch movies, go for drives.  I'm looking forward to two weeks of no school!

Our snow day on Wednesday was fun.  Two minutes after I told the boys they had no school, Smarty had the diningroom table absolutely covered with paper, glue, scissors, tape, crayons, markers, you name it!  Then when they were done with crafting we went downstairs and set up the tent and pulled out the sleeping bags and they watched some cartoons while playing in it.  They weren't happy when we took it down at bedtime, but we'll have it up again soon.  It's going to be a fun Christmas!