Christmas Jammies!

We are following Melissa's example and posting (late, I might add) the kids in their Grandma Mary jammies. Thanks Mom and Dad, it was a great day!

Christmas 2008

I am so thankful for the family that I have been given. We spent the morning at our house and then we packed up food and gifts and went to Grandma and Papa's house. There was (predictably) much more food than we needed and the afternoon was spent resting while the kids played in the snow. It was a good Christmas indeed!

To-Using!

When Craig got home from work today he supplied a snack for the girls and as I walked by Maggie said, "Mom, we are 'to-using'!". I must admit I was a little confused and with all children comes a foreign language that we hope we will master sometime before they are 18. I asked, "You are crushing?", to which Maggie decided a demonstration was in order. I'm not sure where Maggie picked up on this. Maggie held up her banana and Molly did as well, they smashed them together and yelled "To Us"! They were indeed 'To Us-ing' and I finally understood.

'We scored a tree!'

Well, it was 50 degrees today and the sun was shining. I called Craig and left him a message gently suggesting that it would be a great opportunity to get a Christmas tree. As I recall, last year we spent Christmas Eve with beach towels under our tree to soak up the melting ice before we could decorate! This has to be a record for the Green clan. Craig did find a great tree, and he is VERY picky when it comes to trees! The kids enjoyed decorating and Molly enjoyed taking all the decorations back off! We have been blessed with so many great gifts.

Super Molly!

When Molly got stripped down tonight to get into the tub the bathroom was still occupied so I slipped a pair of Maggie's panties on her. I know the thin cotton would not be any kind of barrier to an accident but it seemed fun to her. She absolutely loved them! After her bath she cried and cried and kept pointing to the panty jar (each child has a glass jar with socks and undies above the washer because it seems to be the gathering place after baths)and motioning 'please, please'. I obliged and slipped on a clean pair over her jammies, it pleased her immensely!

My HUGE Breakdown!

On Thursday morning my washing machine did not seem like it wanted to cooperate with me. Oddly enough the last load that actually got through a complete cycle was a load of Craig's work gloves. I decide that I would wait for my handsome talented husband to come home and see if he could fix it. He can mechanic on anything but appliances are one of those things that he loathes working on. He graciously accepted the duty of fixing my HUGE breakdown. As the laundry pile seemed to me that it was growing by the second I was grateful that he was helpful in my dilemma. Craig got to work on the washer and finally decided that the drain pump motor was not working. Not to worry, he can fix anything! He got the corroded motor to run, checked it in an outlet in the garage, plugged it back into the washer. It worked! It sounded horrible, but it worked! By this time I think it was nearing 2:30 a.m. but the helpful little hands were asleep so what better time to get it fixed. The kill-joy came when I put a load of towels in and the pull on the weak old motor was just too much, it refused to work. Did I mention that in the process of taking the pump off I'm not sure how many gallons of water spilled onto the floor thus making my laundry pile grow, not to mention we had no towels for showers in the morning. I'm as bad as the kids when I get tired, the tears came. We ordered the part the next day and were promised it would be here on Monday. We will take the good out of this situation, Mom and Dad were on their way home from the coast so we went out to the house, started a fire in the wood stove and did laundry until they got home. It was so good to see them, even if it had only been a few weeks! The part came today and Craig fixed it, just like I knew he could! I am thankful for a fixed washing machine, my life practically stopped without it!

My little helper.

I was emptying the dishwasher and Molly had to help. I hope she is always so eager to put away dishes! She felt as though she had accomplished a great deal, which explains the big cheesy smile when we were done!