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Monday, January 5, 2009

Holiday Wrap-Up

The husband is back at work. The kids are back at school. I have a mile-long list of things to do. And I sit here and blog. At least my priorities are in order.

Jason did an excellent job blogging about our Christmas vacation activities. I won't repeat all that here, except to add one thing. We took the kids to see Bolt at the theaters after Christmas. As we were paying for our tickets, we were told we would see it in 3D, and that it would cost extra. It cost our family $75 to see an afternoon matinee, eat popcorn and drink a couple of drinks. The movie was great, but I thought the 3D was distracting. Now that we have a great TV, DVD player and sound system, I don't think we'll be trekking out to the movies very often.

Our vacation was marvelous, fun and relaxing. I'm sad it's over, but am ready to get on with the rest of the year. It's going to be a great one!

1 comment:

Heather (wife, mom) said...: youch! 75 bones to go to the movies?!! that encourages me to stick with two kids, or even to just leave them with grandma...
you can't be the meanest mom if you take the kids to a movie and get popcorn. we hardly ever got popcorn and had to sneak cans of soda in! your kids don't know how lucky they are.; January 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM

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Funny Things My Kids Say

(Finally- one from Emily)

There was quite the discussion on what we could have for treats during Family Home Evening- ice-cream shakes or chocolate cows. Emily came up with the solution. She told Tyler, "You can have a shake, and I can have a cow!"

Lucy just walked in with one of her stuffed dogs. She says his name is "Doggy Doo."

At scriptures tonight, Randy was actually participating. I was starting to see the tell-tale signs we were losing him. In an effort to engage him in what we were reading, we had the following discussion.

Me: (referring to Matt. 11:5) Randy, what does "deaf" mean?

Randy: (stuttering and stammering) Uh, not able to hear.

Me: What does "blind" mean?

Randy: Not able to see.

Me: And what does "lame" mean?

Randy: (no hesitation) Not able to be funny.

Bullet chewed up one of Lucy's toys- something from a Happy Meal that she never played with. Later, I found her sitting on the couch, cuddled in a blanket, still weeping. "Do you know why I brought my blanket downstairs?" she asked. "To catch my sadness," she said, as she wiped her face.

At church, our primary was practicing for their Sacrament Meeting. At one point, Randy sneezed and stood up for a Kleenex. As he was blowing his nose, he leaned over to our first counselor and whispered something in her ear. She started to laugh and then mouthed to me, "I'll tell you after." She told me that Randy had said, "There's too much singing. I think I'm allergic to music."

"LUCY! Don't change it to chimpanzee!" ~Randy, chastising his sister for changing the language setting on his Nintendo DS to Japanese.

"Mom is always right. Sometimes." ~Tyler

It's that dreaded time of the year again- fundraiser time. This year it's frozen cookie dough. Therefore, Cookie Monster is making appearances at the school. He was greeting kids as we dropped them off this morning. Lucy was so excited to say hi and that Cookie acknowledged her with a special wave. As we were driving away, Lucy looked back, sighed and said, "Wow, I've never seen Cookie Monster in the wild."