Our car went BOOM.
Our ONLY car went boom.
Our only car to pick up daddy in tomorrow went boom.
Our only car to take Molly to preschool and pick up daddy in went boom.
Our only car to take Molly to preschool, K to her CF Clinic, and pick daddy up tomorrow went boom.
Have I said…
CRAP
Last night I finished (mostly) our Christmas Cookies!! It took me two weeks and 8 sticks of butter…but they are DONE! See the pretty plate I made up for Archie to take to work today:
They are from the top-clockwise: The Best Christmas Cutout Cookies EVER,
Polish Apricot Cookies, Cherry Shortbread, Brownie Cookies (w/powdered sugar, w/ candy cane bits), and Lemony Snickets in the center!!
I say ‘mostly’ done because I am going to make more of the Brownie and Lemon cookies because the brownie recipe didn’t make much and the Lemon ones have been scarfed down by me and Molly (she LOVES them, and so do I). Depending on how the next week goes I may have to make more of the cutouts, too…we’ll see!!
I don’t know what it is this year…but I’m turning into a nutcase…cleaning and cooking and baking and…
(Cutout recipe coming later today…I swear it tastes delicious and was the EASIEST dough to work with I’ve EVER made…and I’ve made a LOT of cutouts in my time!)
And replaced my baby with some talking, jabbering fool!!! Not to mention a BIG girl!!
Molly TALKED at preschool!! SHE TALKED!! ALL WEEKEND she’s been talking!
Pants, Tights, Dress, Santa (sun), Mommy, Diego climb tree, belly, shirt…just for starters!!
And then there’s the JABBER she’s been doing. Just talking our ears off!!
She listens and allows me to bargain with her. She has taken much more interest in solids (good), but therefore ignores important nutrition giving bottles. Today (twice) she was refusing the sippy cup, and I bargained with her, “Do you want to go night night?” “No!” “If you aren’t going night night, you have to drink your milk.” She took it both times!!
Last night at the company party she ended up with my plate in front of her and fed herself all night…mashed potatoes and HAM (she LOVED the ham!!)!!!
It happens so fast when it does happen…it catches me so off-guard!! She is SUCH a big girl suddenly! I swear the aliens took the whispy silent creature that was my daughter and replaced her with a lively little thing that is showing me just how MUCH knowledge she absorbed in her internalized silence. The girl is smart as a whip…I think we’re going to be in TROUBLE!!
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Coming tomorrow – The BEST Christmas Cutout Cookies ever made (I’ll proved recipes at Side Dishes, too.) And the next in the line of the Geek stories…Mama Geek!!
Posted NOW over at Side Dishes – My review of Sci-fi Channel’s Tin Man. (short version-95% loved it, 5% not so much)
I tried to do this myself and ended up cross-eyed and annoyed…so here is a link I found…excuse the ads, it’s a tripod site…but it lists ALL the christmas movies, when they are showing and what channel!! It makes me happy!! Now I know when I can see Bells of St. Mary’s and other assorted favorites!!
And lazy….and…yeah.
I have several posts on the tip of my tongue…but none of them seem to have come out this weekend. Hence, I feel quite lazy.
Besides that, I feel pretty 😛 Tonight was Erik’s company party. It was at the zoo. It was a poorly organized slubfest, mostly. Molly’s present was something she was NOT interested in (pissed me off in light of the fact of how many Dora and Diego toys were running around being held by other kids…especially since E’s side-by-side coworker that he’s worked with for 10 years did the shopping). Overly crowded, poorly organized, bit of a mess….and the girls started out in WONDERFUL *insert sarcasm* moods.
BUT, I still feel pretty *G* I actually did my hair, which led me to realize (after a comment from Erik) that my hair is now down to my bra-strap again!! WHEN did it get that long?! BUt, anyway, I did my hair in a style I haven’t for years. I put on my newest jeans (it was dress-casual), which are actually long enough for my legs, and a pair of high-heeled boots that I haven’t worn in years. I put on a shirt that doesn’t disply my skin rolls so much, painted my nails, and wore makeup!! I felt pretty for the first time in a long time! Still took terrible pictures (well, one of them is really bad, I was making some STRANGE face in it).
After the party we wandered the zoo a bit. Molly was fascinated, so I’m definitely going to have to take the kids this summer (it is only 30 minutes away give or take). I’ll need to buy a leash by then.
I plan on posting about Sci-Fi’s Tin Man, but I may do that over at Side Dishes, which I’ve neglected since NaBlo was completed. I have other things too…but they’re coming when I’m feeling inspired!