Yesterday, we did our own thing during the day but then had everyone over for burgers on the grill at our house. You know...nice & simple, just the 10 of us. LOL
We are the Larabie family - Kelly, Corey, Morgan & Alex. We are a homeschooling AND public schooling, work-at-home, eco-friendly family. You never know what you might find here. Feel free to stop by often.
Merry Yule! We hope everyone had a blessed day. It was the Winter Solstice today...the longest night of the year. After this the sun will return a wee bit more each day leading up to the longest day of the year at the Summer Solstice. It is a celebration of light.
Tired, tired, tired. I think that about covers it. LOL! I can't believe it has been a week since I last posted. Sorry about that. It has been a busy week. Morgan's sleepover and Yule Ball went great last Friday. Corey managed to get home before I got home from picking up the girls. I think they all stopped giggling about 11pm. Saturday morning we all went to see Eragon. I thought it was good and I think everyone else thought so too...except for those that read the book and they had a lot to say about how much was cut out. Doesn't that always happen though? We met up with the girls' mom and spent some time up in Cool Springs doing shopping with my mom. Then we met my brother & his girlfriend for dinner. Alex dumped some Creole seasoning (powder) onto the table and then ended up getting it in his eye! Then poor little man fell asleep before his dinner came & slept right through.
Yea, Corey will be home tomorrow night. We've managed to get through the week just fine but we have all missed him and he has missed us. It hasn't been an easy week for him while attending the class the big project he is on has had problems so he keeps getting called out of the class to log in & deal with it. Very frustrating since he is missing the class he is supposed to attend.
It is official....I'm 39 now. Funny, I don't feel it. Or maybe I do and this is what 39 feels like. LOL! Either way, it is all good.
Brrrrrrrr!! Talk about cold! Tonight was the local Christmas parade. Every town around us has a parade on a different day/evening and tonight was Columbia's turn. The parade started at 7pm. We headed up there at 6:30pm to find a place to park before the road was closed. It was 27 degrees at that time. We were all layered and bundled but man 'o man it was still so cold. The theme was "Santas, Santas everywhere" and so there were Santas everywhere....every float, walking around, etc. It was cute. Morgan's dance classes were cancelled for today because all the teachers & older girls were to be in the parade. We saw them dance by & yelled hi to all the ones we knew. Morgan thought that was cool. By 7:30pm the kids had had enough of the cold and wanted to go. There was a little more to the parade but since we were there for them to have fun we left when they were ready. I think we all had a numb nose & toes. Thank goodness for a warm van. LOL! On the way home it was 25 degrees, with the windchill in the teens! We got home and made some yummy hot cocoa. :-) They are now watching Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys on ABC Family.
Let the baking begin. LOL! Today we made oatmeal cookies and peanut butter blossoms (peanut butter w/choc kisses). So that is 2 down. ;-) Cookies baking always make the house smell so good. :-) This afternoon we went over to my mom's house so Corey could help my brother work on the fence. He is making her a 4 board fence and has all the posts in and is now working on the boards. They were doing good until the nail gun jammed so bad they couldn't get it to clear. While at my mom's house, Alex fell off her bed while watching TV. I was outside and heard my mom screaming for me & Alex screaming. I came running in to find my mom holding a screaming, sobbing Alex, while he clutched his right arm to his body. Mom was so worried that he had broken his collar bone or dislocated his shoulder or something. I finally got him to calm down enough to answer questions & show me where it hurt. He kept placing his hand under his right arm & against his ribs...and was very worried that he was bleeding. I think he fell with his arm out & something caught him under his arm. Nothing seems out of place or causing him pain or trouble so I think it is all just bruised.
Shopping on Friday was fun. Mom loved The Fairy Grotto at The Factory and spent some money there (I knew she would). After checking out other shops, the 3 of us had some lunch and headed out to JoAnn's and some other places. I can't mention all of them because some people we were shopping for read this. ;-) LOL! I was bummed at JoAnn's because they didn't have diddly for cotton interlock which I need for the tops to the jammies I'm making for the kids. Ugh! So I'm going to have to make the pants & get t-shirts to match them. A little frustrating but workable.