Archive for November, 2011
Evaluating the Christmas Tree
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011As a kid, there was this weird tradition. My parents would get out the boxes of decorations and ornaments and there would be these wooden reindeer body with no antlers or limbs. In fact, I had no idea what they whole thing looked like. Just the body. Later, when my parents moved to a new [...]
Thanksgiving
Sunday, November 27th, 2011We had an amazing Thanksgiving! Mark’s mom came into town for the holiday which was nice. Atticus loves having “new” people to play with. He had so much fun showing off his cars and other toys. Napping was not in his plan which made him slightly more than bonkers. We had a pot luck at [...]
The Unwanted Milestones
Sunday, November 20th, 2011The title is referring to a parenting milestone more than a tot milestone. However, I supposed one was reached on both sides the yesterday. The backstory- Someone rude well-meaning lady woke Atticus up from his nap yesterday by yelling “THAT’S SO COOL!!” in our direction after I’d taken great care to get him out of [...]
We will soon live in a war zone!
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Recently our neighbors had their roof replaced. We had a horrible hail storm during the summer and it damaged their roof. We got to thinking if their roof had significant hail damage, ours probably did to. Not to mention that we have evidence of water seeping through a skylight and has stained a wall and [...]