Our PARTY... twas fun :)

Personalized icing...
Friends and Chums.
Under construction...
Katy's chimney...
Mansion City...
Snack breaking-it.
Before Brittany's infamous "yarn trick"...
Working hard...
Some lovely ladies...
Sister-master-pieces...
ML's cozy cottage...
Jack's "trailer park at Christmas" rendition...
Sneakers.
TA-DA!!!

• elliott is still mr. sicko.
• tomorrow night is our school holiday program (can any-one say "rite of passage"?)
• seth is leaving for the mexico lands on saturday morning. im excited for him, because he needs to get away. but i am of course sad for myself...
• i can't wait for our 1st annual gingerbread making party on saturday afternoon.
  
• elliott and i will be decorating while "da-da" is gone. but it probably won't be a surprise since he reads my blog.
• i am tired.
• i am ready for winter break.
• my throat is sore.
• life is too much for me sometimes.
• i am so aware that it is "much more too much" for others far more often than for myself.
• thank you baby jesus.

i will have a big picture update at the end of this crazy-eventful weekend...

hope you are all well my dears.

ps: it's snowing. and it's lovely.

oh, and also... i can't wait to see these boys!!!

I just finished reading THIS. I went to see IT tonight. Does that mean I should be embarrassed? Oh well. I am not.


Also, Elliott has pneumonia and it sucks!

let's ketchup...

So, at school, we needed something to do with all of that dried corn we had. The kids decided to make collages. Also, we added some pretty snowmen and snowflakes to the math area. It's a little 1:1 (pre-math) exercise. Every snowman gets 1 snowflake. See how it works...
All done.
A cute, little, holiday-necklace-making work is also rather popular...
Friday night, Lola and I decided to go look at Christmas lights and eat yummy treats. We also celebrated her first-ever purchase from Victoria's Secret... random I know. She looks pretty cute though with the holiday bag...
My friend. She's just special...
THEN, this morning, it was time to make MONSTER COOKIES! A tradition that's been running for, ehh... like 13 years!!! SO much fun. Elliott rocked the apron this time...
Watching Christmas music on the tube...
Cute-est.
Digging in...
Nerd-o-rific...
He didn't like touching the gooey dough. I don't know why? It's the best part.
Nick got him to try some...
The End.

some randoms...

Elliott hates cheese. I keep trying to get the kid to love cheese as much as Urkle, but it's not going to happen.
He loves corn. I'm serious. He really, really, loves it. We have to stay stocked. Or should I say "stalked"?
Bad jokes are bound to happen.
I am currently loving clementines and pistachios. I may eat my entire surplus of them this evening. I really might.
I have not yet purchased a new camera. I want to get a really nice one eventually. I'm using an old one for now. However, I have left it at school for the past two nights, along with the pictures of the new holiday work in my classroom. I will share all of that tomorrow.
The E-tron has also been making this "to-die-for" face when he gets upset. I have GOT to capture it on film before yet another adorable phase comes to an end.
Don't you hate that? When your baby outgrows something that you were loving so much? I do.
Hopefully the future can only promise more adorable things...
He is also sick today. Yes, again. 104.3 temp.
I bought two Christmas magazines... so excited. I can't wait to be free, so I can bake cookies, finish my book (which is more than halfway done now) and snuggle with my little Elli-Belly.
I feel good today.
But tomorrow could always be another story...

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

Why, (besides the fact that The Sound of Music is one of my favorite movies, and I watched it obsessively as a child) does this song always pop into my head when I rock Elliott to sleep? Honestly. He must dream every night of Liesl, Brigitta, and Gretl's sore "finga". Hopefully though, he doesn't have nightmares that involve me making him wear clothes made from hideous curtains...

i feel so boring today. seriously. i kept catching glimpses of myself in the mirror at school, and i thought... "i look like a mom".

no offense to us moms, but for real? what happened to me?...

im sure i must be very depressing lately, but rest assured... that's only because im depressed.

so until i feel better, and probably after that too, you can find me anywhere, drunk on cups full of starbucks-holiday cheer!