Advent Blogging done.

If you are not totally 'Christmased' out, listen to the birth of Jesus as narrated by the Bible Experience. It's my favourite audio bible: Birth of Jesus

Peace of Christ to you.

A special delivery and Candlelight service

After sleeping by the tree last night, we had an early morning wake up call. Friends of ours had suggested we join them in delivering food hampers in our village. So armed with coffee, donuts and Christmas tunes we headed over to the loading place. There was a line up a mile long of cars filled with people willing to give up Christmas Eve morning to deliver food in the pouring rain. We got our 4 loads of 2 boxes each and headed over to a low income seniors' complex to bring our boxes. Each of our ladies were super thankful for their boxes, but we got a bit of a shock when one lady opened the door naked! She welcomed us in, but I told her that we could wait while she put some clothes on. Then we had a lovely chat.

After spending some time with my family, we headed off to church for the Candlelight service. The masterpiece of the night was a huge floating pool that was created to float the candles. So fun to watch people come and place their candles as an act of worship. Some floated a little too close to the edge, so I took pictures and kept the candles from setting things on fire.


Merry Christmas!

Sleeping by the Christmas tree

I didn't think how painful this activity would be. A shag carpet on hardwood floor is no comparison to our lovely pillow-top mattress. However, the excitement of the girls is hard to say no too!

Puppets and Playdates

Another gorgeous day here and the girls jumped on my bed early in the morning with the plea to 'defrost' the trampoline. How? By putting on snowsuits and sliding on it of course! So out came the snowsuits and 20 minutes later the trampoline was defrosted and the girls had rosy cheeks and an appetite for breakfast.

The card/activity of the day was puppet making and story telling, so the girls started their puppets and set making soon after breakfast. But that was all put aside with a phone call from good friends wanting to hang out. Lunch, gingerbread house decorating, playing at the park, hot chocolate and trampoline jumping made 3 hours fly by. With such a busy fall, it was so good to just play and chat together. Sometimes you can forget how life giving good friends can be!

Then after dinner, the puppets came out and the girls and Hubby each put on a show!(I begged off because I still have a paper due for school. However, I was the audience for the night) I love hearing the girls' stories and just excitement to be doing this with us. Hubby took an old pair of socks and put on quite the show. The pictures don't quite do it justice, but they are phone pictures after all!

Pookie's Princess and Dragon Story

Bear's Princess and Elf story

And the sock puppets

Counting down the days

Today we were supposed to take our free movie tickets and head to the theatre with the girls, but there was not a single movie that they wanted to see. So when we woked up to a glorious sunny day, the girls and I decided to walk into town and pick up a DVD and some treats instead. We got Kung Fu Panda 2. I love the Kung Fu Panda movies, all 3 of them. If I could only have one kid movie/series, that might be my choice. It always cracks me up.

Potatoes and milk

A couple of weeks ago Hubby and Bear were left at home due to sickness while Pookie and I went to a family dinner. When I came home and asked what they had for dinner, Hubby answered, 'Milk and Potatoes'. Then Bear gleefully chimed in, "French Fries and Ice Cream".

Yup. They dipped fries into ice cream and called it dinner.

Tonight I worked late and the Advent activity was going out for ice cream. This time Hubby made chicken strips and fries...then they went for ice cream. Then we all met up and headed to good friends for hot chocolate, cookies and candy.

And now it is 10 pm and the girls are bouncing off the walls...I wonder why?

A strange occurrence

At first it was no big deal. Then my palms started getting itchy. I started fidgeting and shifting in place. I broke into a cold sweat and my ears started buzzing from all the noise. Finally, I could stand it no longer.

Enough! We have to get out of here!

The girls have discovered the sparkly, girly mess that is Claire's in the mall. I stood there as they oohed and ahhed over dangly earrings, rainbow skirts, makeup, nail polish and so much more. I hit my limit when Pookie dragged me over to see a feather boa that she NEEDED!

Parenting girls is going to kill me.