Christmas and other ramblings

Christmas day went really well. Molly really enjoyed all her gifts, Joe loved his huge Lego Star Wars set he got and Nick was so thrilled with his IPod touch he got!! Hubby surprised me with an over the oven microwave oven. The one we have been non functioning for about two years. I have duct tape holding up a piece from hanging but there it sat!! My dad is going to come over and help me and or hubby get the old one out and the new one in! Paul also got me a nice point and shoot digital camera that i wanted!! All the kids were well behaved, the meal turned out great though i forgot to thaw the rolls so we had no rolls...i dont think anyone but hubby missed them lol!!!

Molly wound up getting sick the day after Christmas. Just very sleepy and didnt want to eat anything cough,sneezing and very watery eyes. She stayed home from church today but the boys went due to needing to ring bells with the other youth in bells. I am looking forward to a relaxing week!!

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!