How do kindergarten teachers do it???

Seriously??? They are special people!! Today was Mollys class "Holiday party" So I volunteer for the parties but I do not plan them...which is fine with me! Give me directions and i can follow them! But please! If you sign up to "help" PLEASE do more then sit and talk or sit and then stand to take pictures. It's not fair to the very few remaining parents to pick up your slack!!! They had some very involved projects, 2 included paint, 1 included paint with glitter, the others involved lots of glue...these are 5 year olds we are discussing!!!! Then, when teacher kindly asks us to get snack ready, please help, dont just stand around, then decide that the table I had to use because you were sitting at an available table was not clean enough and could not be used...seriously if I put the stuff there it really would have been clean enough for the 5 minutes they would be eating there!!!!
Tomorrow, because Tuesday is my normal day to help...I get to do all 5 projects with 2 children who were absent...unless(hopefully) they are absent again.....I am sure I will still have tons to do, because the one mom thought it would be cute to wrap one of the gifts....um yeah....I don't think so!! But at least it will be fun because i'll be in my jammies for PJ day!
All in all it was still fun, and I am happy to have helped because it made Molly happy to have me there.

Christmas fun!!!

So these past few days have been full of fun! We started out on Saturday making cookies and some plates to pass out to our nieghbors. Molly was supposed to be my little helper...she did a little bit of decorating but that is about it! We also had Joes Christmas concert for school he had a lot of fun. He had a "solo" part but actually it was the whole Trumpet section that had the solo! We've been finishing up the Christmas shopping. On Monday I had to make cinnamon rolls for Mollys class they were studying Christmas around the world. Well as a special treat Molly got to play Saint Lucia and pass out the cinnamon rolls to her classmates. It was really quite precious!!

Tonight the boys have thier All Night Bowling Party for scouts so they will be tired puppies tomorrow and I predict quiet unhappy,cranky people!!!

Molly as Saint Lucia! The girls made these crowns and the Boys made Star Boy hats in the Swedish tradition!

so, yes I officially want a stand mixer!!!

My arms are tired!!! I only made 4 different batches of cookies but boy was I tired out yesterday!! Apparently I also have a hard time measuring things correctly, no, I don't mean ingrediants, I mean size of things!! For the Pecan cups I made I was supposed to get 48 of them! I did actually get 48 but JUST barely!!!! Ok no big deal right?? The other cookies I made each said I would get about 3 1/2 dozen cookies....yeah......I got 6 dozen each!!!! That was great since they were mostly for gifts for neighbors and a little left over for us but each one need to be rolled into balls before baking!!!!
So, the stand mixer will only take a little strain out of my arms but I think it will be a great addition to my kitchen one day!!!!
I was really happy because out of the 4 cookies I made only one was a tried and true recipe, the rest were new to us and they were all winners in terms of ease and yummyness!!!

Frigid cold!!!

Baby it is COLD outside!!! We had some running around to do and yesterday, everytime we got back into the car the temperature had dropped another degree. These kind of days makes me so thankful for my nice warm house(though i do need to get some plastic up on the kids windows) and so sad for those that dont have homes of thier own.

Excited for baking!!!

So Molly and I should (hopefully) have some fun baking this weekend!!
We are going to make some
Peppermint Meltaways
Pecan Cups
Fudge Thumbprints
Snowballs
Mrs. Claus Fudge
and Chocolate Mint Brownies
I can't wait!!!

I like Molly's thinking!

Hubby came home from work and Molly told him I want you to make dinner tonight. I sat patiently to see how he would react, he said sounds fine to me, I'll call for Jet's pizza. Mind you I already had planned on making a chicken and potatoes meal but since he didn't balk at the thought of him taking care of dinner I let him order pizza! yay! Night off cokking for me and chicken and potatoes will be tomorrow or Monday!

online shopping versus in store shopping

So, Paul and I always thought that online shopping was so much of a hassle, especially if orders were wrong,billing issues, things like that. We really try to avoid that. Well, we received an email from Best Buy that we were eligible for a special deal if we called in our order. So technically its not online shopping but its not in store either. We called, placed our order, two day later we have our goods! Easy peasy!!!! I mentioned to Paul that I would like a certain camera(just a cute little good deal on a point and shoot camera that i could keep in my purse) we tried to buy it online but it was out of stock and it would not let me order it. Paul decided to go to the store, well of course they were sold out as well (lots of people including me will be carrying around a wine colored Kodak Easy Share camera lol)but the sales clerk told Paul that they could order it for him(he received the camera case that day) and that they would send him an email when it arrived at the store. So he paid for everything right then. I got the email that the camera was ready to be picked up. Paul printed the copy out,went to the store and they had NO camera for him. Kidding right?? Nope! But they did locate the camera at another store. So this is what they did, they refunded him the money, rang him up again and sent him home. So I call the other store and they said , no we dont have a camera today for him but he can pick it up tomorrow.
So the next day, i get an email that the battery is in for the camera so we head to the store and not only do they have the battery they have his camera, sigh. So crazy!!! Anyways we finally have everything set and in our hands!
Well another funny thing, while we were waiting for them to clear our purchases an older man came to pick up his order. The girl scans the email, gets the things. She hands him a Wii Fit balance board, and a camera or something like that, and walks away. The guy is looking at the purchases strangley, turns out he had ordered a WiiFit Balance board SLEEVE, they gave him the balance board instead of the sleeve, the sleeve costs like 13 bucks lol thankfully the guy was honest but seriously 2 people, the cashier and the warehouse could have quite a loss!!!!
As we leave the store with our purchase, Paul hands the guy at the door our reciept, the guy waves it away like he didnt want to see it, as we left we set off the alarm, the guy just completly waved us on!!! Dude!!! We could have taken anything we wanted lol!!!! Good thing for Best Buy they had honest people in thier store that day!!