Posted on December 10, 2010 by Nancy
It’s been a rough season for The Zoo. We’ve all been sick multiple times. Burke missed a day of school last week and then another on this week. Maggie is just finishing up her 2nd day of being sick. (Fever, vomiting…good times.)
This morning Maggie fell to sleep in our bed…and woke up around 11AM or so … ready to head to school. And was heartbroken to hear that they’d started without her. She rallied for a bit, but the withered again this afternoon.
I’m hoping that since we’ve all been under the weather so much so early this season that we’re DONE with it…and we’ll all be healthy for Christmas and then for Disney!! (Shhhh! The kids still don’t know *grin* )
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Posted on December 9, 2010 by Nancy
This is about the 100th picture in or so…..
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Posted on December 8, 2010 by Nancy
I had my first Usborne Book party tonight. I have SO.MUCH to learn!! It was fairly laid back…and small, so I didn’t do a whole schpeal or anything…just showed off some of the books.
I need to find a good balance of salesman vs. pushy. Ido NOT want to be “that friend” who pushes books at everyone every chance I get, but at the same time…I don’t want to miss an opportunity. Hopefully when I get into it a bit more and know the books more intimately, I’ll be more comfortable about trying to book parties and REALLY selling the books.
For now, I guess I’m just going to have to be comfortable with knowing that these are kick ass books and hoping others out there know it too!
(wanna hold a book party? You’ll get lots of free books! *grin*)
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Posted on December 7, 2010 by Nancy
It’s HERE!!! Our new Pellet stove was installed today! I’m so, so excited.
So, crazy story. Mike goes over to a buddy’s house for Poker night…comes back (omg, so late!) and starts talking about this cool pellet stove his buddy has and we need to go get one. Uhm…okay. (I’ll say anything at 3am to just go back to sleep 😉 )
The next morning, we start looking online at some and find a local place that sells them…and go visit the next day. Here I’m thinking we’ll shop around a bit – this one is cool, maybe we’ll check out a few other places…nope. We buy it. Right then and there. Oh, and by the way, did you know that there’s a huge tax break going on right now if you purchase by 12/31? No? Well…BONUS!
(Then as we were signing the papers, Logan hit his head on a display hearth…so we forgot about the papers we needed to apply for until yesterday.)
The fireplace - BEFORE
The Pellet Stove - AFTER
We’re told we need to get a hearth extender…but OMG!!! I’m loving this thing already!! The 2 pallets of pellets (2.8 tons EACH) were delivered yesterday (holy huge semi – totally entertained the kids for a little while), so we’re set for the winter!
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Posted on December 4, 2010 by Nancy
Posted on November 28, 2010 by Nancy
…That really wasn’t.
The projection for this year was that there would be more people driving than flying. So the roads would be horrific. Not so. At least for us.
And perhaps that’s because we left at 7:45PM on Wednesday night.
And the kids were *fantastic* the whole way there. (Perhaps because they all slept for part of the drive…) We didn’t have to break out the DVD player at all for the 3.5 hour trip.
You’d also think that having 16 people under 1 roof (9 adults, 6 kids, 1 teenager) would be crazy. And it was…but a good crazy. Oh sure…there were a few meltdowns, but nothing too major. (And fine…4 of those actually live a 1/4 mile down the road, but they were all there pretty much the whole time 🙂 )
And then the ride home…that was supposed to start at 2:30PM, but ended up being 3PM tanks to 3 flat tires (Thank God for my Dad’s old farm stuff – the air compressor came in VERY handy!!) However, it all worked out because we didn’t hit much traffic on the way home either.
And the kids were – again – *fantastic* the whole way. (This time with no sleep AND no DVD player!) We had a good time making Logan’s Woody doll dance – lots of big belly laughs and giggles 🙂
I’m so thankful for my kickass family!
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Posted on November 27, 2010 by Nancy
…without baking time with Nana!
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Posted on November 26, 2010 by Nancy
With Aunt Cathy!
1/2 Cup Elmer’s white glue (not school glue)
1/2 Cup water
Food coloring
1/2 warm water with 1 Tablespoon Borax
Put together in the order above, pouring the Borax in slowly until it’s the right consistency.
Store in an air tight container or plastic bag.
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Posted on November 25, 2010 by Nancy
From the kids table 🙂
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Posted on November 21, 2010 by Nancy
A little eerie that my WBW post this week was when Maggie landed in the ER because she hit her head… Logan smacked HIS head in the same exact spot today. He and Burke were fooling around in a fireplace store (more about why we were there later), and I’m not 100% sure what happened, but I’m fairly certain there was a slight push involved.
It’s nowhere near the level of emergency of Maggie’s, but the poor kid has got to have a whoper of a headache.
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The Zimmer Zoo 