Mommy's Christmas Gift

For so many reasons I love Christmas. The smell of pine, the cold brisk air, snowmen, and the thought of Santa squeezing his fat white booty down the chimney always make me smirk. So this year why would it be any different? And did Santa let me down? NOOOOOOOPE! Mommy got a new lap top~ Yay! Perfect timing considering I start school next Tuesday! My mom also got me this great new soft bathrobe I was eyeing too......and I don't ever ever want to take it off.










For many reasons I won't mention, I had a rough month here. I won't go into the gory details, but walking by Mema's picture last night I asked her to please just be with me and to give me a sign that she was here watching over me. Now if you aren't the type that believes in this stuff, well just believe this........Samantha came out of her room and said "is there a Stacey here? Stacey? I have a message for you"..........this girl is just learning how to spell 3 letter words so I think nothing of her scribbled note.......until I saw the name on the top: Here it is: exactly the way my grandmother spelled her name....."Stase"........now I know she is truly with me. Merry Christmas to me......from heaven.

Merry Christmas to Everyone

Here are a few fun shots we took on Christmas....Grandma is using a dress up rack/shelf we got from Brian's sister as a photo frame for her and the girls.....I thought it was too cute to not post don't you agree? The girlies love their "Grandma".....

Here is Samantha opening her favorite gift, Squawks McCaw, a fur real pet parrot. I originally despised this thing! Every time I walked by it in the store it blurted out "Hello" in an annoying voice! So when Santa brought it to our house I let out a nice loud "ooooh nice" in my monotone "oh this toy is so annoying" voice. Well, as I was cooking dinner, Samma left him on the table and all I heard was "whatcha doin" and it was the silly parrot. So now he's my new friend and we even can make him do gag things like "fart".....it's awesome. I'll get video footage of him later.....and last but not least......

Brendan's precious face the moment he opened his cell phone! I cannot believe that we caved and bought him a cell phone, however, he has shown so much responsibility this year and has kept his grades excellent. He also wants to go to all his baseball and basketball practices by himself now and also wants to walk to friends houses so..........I need to be in touch with my boy!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..........

Natalie is running up the stairs and locking herself in with the gate....none of that white cold stuff for her!

Well we got hit with some serious snow this past weekend and the kids were loving it.......everyone except Natalie of course who cannot stand the feel of cold on her skin. Delaney ran out in the pajama bottoms (my kid would dress like a hobo right?) and run outside to see how it really and truly is.......of course, we warned her the number one rule of snow.........anyone? anyone? Never eat yellow snow of course! So here she is, soothing her incision site in the throat while Natalie is running for cover!

So let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Bring it on baby! I'm not afraid. Nope. Not one bit.

Christmas tree.........oh Christmas treeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

When we first put our tree up this week, we couldn't understand why Natalie, also known as Little Miss Mischievous would not want to touch the tree. She would walk away from it and sometimes she would get a bit closer only to run in the other direction. Then she tried using her ride-on dora bike to get close and she backed off again. Here she is today, enjoying her view of the tree.......touching the branches and exploring. Now instead of Rocking around the Christmas tree, we're playing "peeka boo" around the Christmas tree!

It's been a while........

since my last post but things were crazy with Delaney being sick and well, with all the kids fighting me for the computer and all, I swear someday I will post more again! Delaney is finally feeling better and is almost back to her old self. Brendan just had his school musical and christmas shopping is almost complete! It's hard to believe that Christmas is such a short time away! In 12 days we will be going loopy in this house and it will look like a wrapping paper tornado hit Braintree!

So we finally got the tree up last weekend and now we are just doing last minute Christmas stuff. Tonight I am taking the girls to the Nutcracker at the Opera House compliments of Della's godfather Higgy. Della just loves it and so doesnt' Sam. They even have matching dresses so I will post them as soon as I can tomorrow so you can see how adorable they look.

I'm off to start my morning, but I just thought I'd finally come on and say hello!

It's really cold now......anyone know the way to Florida?

Baby it's COLD OUTSIDE

While Delaney is still on the mend from her surgery this house is getting stir crazy! My truck is in the shop as well so I don't even have a way to get anywhere so we've been housebound.

Yesterday afternoon, Delaney took a nap and Natalie saw Brendan through the big window sledding in our neighbor's yard. She wanted out! So I dressed her up and opened the door and she went out into the freezing cold. She was in the sled that Mema bought for Brendan for Christmas when he was 2. She was in the swing. She was in her "pretend" dora car. She was loving it.......

So here's a few photos of her having some Winter fun with her brother.

All I want for Christmas is ............

a new bottom front tooth! After many months of waiting and watching all of her "younger" friends loose many many teeth, Samma finally came out of her room tonight ecstatic because she pulled out her own tooth! She wiggled and pulled! Mema would be so proud!!!! Anyway, she was so excited and went to bed with a spring in her step talking about the tooth fairy. She didn't get away without me taking the "I lost my first tooth" photo.........

No serious, All I really want for Christmas is.......

well, I think Samma wants lots of things. However, she really wants her T-W-O bottom front teeth! That's right.....two. In one night. She wiggled one and pulled it out. Then she came out and said "what would happen if I lost two in one night" so we proceeded to tell her that she would get "double" the money. She came out and said "this is going to be a fun night" and was holding another tooth.....................She looks so cute. Don't you agree......?????