Childhood...

So, as a parent, there are certain things that I must encourage my kids to do/see to be sure that their childhood is both full and enriching...

That said...

I bought The Never-Ending Story on ebay last week and finally got it on Saturday!!!! I STILL cry when Artax dies.... *sniff*

We have, at last count, watched it three times... and it's on again...

And then I went on Itunes and bought the song, cause who doesn't love that song!?! (I'm updating my playlist so if you wanna hear it for old times sake, it should be there...)


And, yeah, he was a cute kid... but... *big grin*

In other news...

David got his stitches out today. He did good. I know he was SO nervous, but I held him and they got it over with pretty quickly. He was so relieved when it was done. We went for donuts after. :D Donuts make everything alright.
He might scar pretty good, but he's young enough that it won't be too bad. His face looks pretty rough though, between the nasty SpongeBob bandaids that ate his skin, and the closed-yet-nasty looking gash in his face.

This morning in our family prayer Ike Ike said, "Please don't let Granni be dying." It was one of those *groan* moments.
I am reading a fantastic book called Grieving: The Pain and The Promise. It's has a lot of good advice. I am also reading a book that one of my online friends sent me called Motherless Daughters that is also good, though I prefer the first one. I have finally begun journaling about the whole thing. I've kind of been avoiding it. I've realized also that I could really use some "me" time... far away. I have so much going on everyday with kids and house and hubby back in school and then there were the holidays, and I haven't really had a chance to sit down and write/think about it. I have been meaning to start a scrapbook about her journey through cancer with all her papers and such that I have, but I haven't done that either. It's like I get up, get people out of the house, do a little housework (though I haven't managed to get back up to my previous level of productivity yet), and then I come and sit in front of the computer and zone out for a few hours... it's an escape mechanism I'm sure. Oh well... I'll get there.

I know there's a lot I need to do, but I just don't feel like it. :P

Wednesday.

Just a post with some pics.
This is the cake I made for Nathan's birthday. He wanted upside down chocolate flan cake (Me: Huwha-?). So I found a recipe hereand made this masterpiece.
M'Kay, I don't even like flan, but this was fantastic! The flan had a real chessecakey taste to it and I'd wager to say that the piece I had this morning was even better than the one I had last night!!! Seriously, make it a day ahead if you can...



And Daddy liked it!!!

Just because I love it.

HeeHee!

This made me giggle!!!

I can haz new music!!!

ROFLMBO!!!!

So I was in here posting those puppet pics and David ran in here giggling like mad and told me to come see what he had done...

I laughed so hard!!!!




The Culprits!!!

Puppets

Here's the Shark Boy and Lava Girl puppets. They are full size puppets, take up most of my arm (don't know if you can tell from the pics how big they are). David was scared of them at first, go figure. All I can say is thank goodness for hair, cause they had some serious issues.
Not bad for my first attempt!?!
(I was so proud of her hair. It is about 9 or 10 strands stitched together at a time, and then sewed to the head. Looks good up close.

New Years Pics and FrankenDavid

So tired, on the way home from bowling.

Super tired Ike Ike!!!

New Years Crackers!!! Gotta love 60% after Christmas. Holiday crackers are so much fun! The boys loved popping them and getting the junk.


Can't hardly see them for the smoke from the sparklers!!! (David and his friend Neil at midnight!)

Poor little man. You can just barely see the bruising under his eye. Six stitches. The doctor said it was pretty deep, down to the muscle. The tissue was bulging out of his cheek when they brought him inside. Yikes! *shivers* It bled pretty good. They even had to pick some grass out of it. (One of his friends got him with a golf club!) Lucky he didn't lose an eye!

Signs...

Okay, it's been 2009 for about... 16 hours, and I've already had poo on my shoes, and a son in the ER getting stitches... is this a sign?


Oi.


Update: No, it wasn't the bunk bed. :D

Happy New Year!!

As I said on facebook...

Dear 2008,
Don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you.


We went bowling tonight for the New Years Eve party here on post. It was fun, but a little pricey, and we had to share a lane with a father and his teenage daughter (which was undoubtedly more frustrating for them than for us). I actually had a really nice time and the boys were so good!!! I wanted to lay the smack down on some other people for not watching their own kids, but that's another story...

But the boys were beat by 10:30 so we left around 11 and came home and they were all asleep by 11:30. David had said he wanted us to wake him up for the new year, so we did (Man, that boy goes out HARD!) and we went across the street to our neighbor's to light sparklers with them.

As the New Year dawned, I stepped in a pile of dog crap. I hope that's not a sign. 2008 was bad enough.
Then Nathan, as we were toasting our sparkling cranberry juice, loving looked at me and said, "Happy Poo Year."

Indeed.

Uh-oh.

Yes, I am one of *those* people. Here's some little cakes I made. It's Snape and Granger. I wrote a super silly story to go along with it (I giggled like mad whilst writing it) but you'd probably want to vomit.

Anywho... it's a good example of my growing love for fondant...