Great Project over at ScrapMatters

Hey All.... I do a little eco-blurb over at Scrap Matters for their Project Re-new it blog entries once a month. With all the envelopes arriving in the mail at the moment... I thought I would pass this timely project along that Kate created. You can find it here.
Wile coming up with the eco-facts about junk mail I learned that the average American adult spends 8 months of their life dealing with junk mail. The link has links to get off all those awful lists and save some trees!

Sweet Sleeping Babe

All is Calm...
All is Bright...

My little Ci. She has had a few tough weeks. First she got that nasty cough,and finally she got better... but she got used to being around me full time again, and is having separation anxiety every time I drop her to pre-school this week. I HATE leaving her in tears. I'm hoping she will be ready to go back after the holidays.

I had to snap off this picture. She looked so peaceful!

Oh my - where has the month gone?!!

So it is the 16th, and my holiday cards lay in pieces waiting to be assembled still. I hope to complete them this evening.

Here are the photos I didn't used for the card from the same afternoon. We made a gingerbread house, so I thought it might make a nice "prop" for our pictures.

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Cough Cough

We made it through the Thanksgiving Break. We picked up one eye infection, four colds and one still bad stomach. We took Zach to the doc the day before Thanksgiving and the Doctor decided that dairy and apples might be upsetting his stomach. So he says, "ok... no daiy for the next three weeks starting now... oh and by the way - almost everything has dairy in it - you need to really watch the labels.

I walked out of the Doc's office in a daze, and since both the kids were sporting an awful cough along with the stomach ailment,we cancelled out of our Thanksgiving plans. After a short meltdown, I gathered myself up and headed to the new Whole Foods. An hour later we were set to cook for Thanksgiving.... sans dairy. Gotta love Whole Foods. Unfortunately I got the cough we are passing around, so I was zapped of energy on Thursday which made cooking a less than delightful event. By Saturday Mark was sick too... I think in his case it was the early morning shopping that got him. My husband loves a bargain!

Fast Forward to Monday and Zach is still complaining about stomach upset. I'm not sure how long it takes for the dairy to get out of his system, or if that is even it. Sela missed school today too, both are still coughing and I'm kind of doubting they will go tomorrow either.

On a happy note, our kitty Chumba gets to lose the lampshade tomorrow, and get her stitches out from her ittle surgery.

Gosh - just call us the house of ailments!