Christmas is a comin' the geese are gettin' fat

slept in, let Katie sleep in until we barely had time to pick up our girls &get to Mercer Co GS Xmas party in Princeton....little Emily's mom was walking her across the yard to our house...I thought we were picking up Sierra...no one was home...went to Lineville after Mackenzie...at Mercer the truck started cutting out....so I turned around on old Hwy 65 & headed back....didn't make it. had to call for roadside rescue....we timed the boys....6 minutes from call to pick up. so we ended up being about 25 minutes late to the party....I was surprised that we had a full table of Mercer girls making gift bags! Melissa showed up after us...ended up with 13 girls! and we had a huge pile of donated soup. the Princeton Brownies had the most...all together over 250 cans for the food pantry! got home, Kevin had got tech support to work on computer.....5.5 hours. they said it was a virus. all is well in our world now...computer running....truck at Willis Garage....fresh snow on the ground....and Mackenzie is waiting for her dad to pick her up. she stayed over last nite....Katie is fun fun fun at night....but tends to sleep away most of her days....so Miss Mackenzie is bored out of her mind, although Miss Cuddles is paying LOTS of attention to our guest!

Friday

another shitty work week has ended....kj has josh & val over watching wrestling. I got the GS vest order ready for new girls vests...now working on the Jan. Reduce/Reuse/Recycle meeting. need to be baking cookies for tomorrows Mercer co GS party....

Wednesday

took the day off....got my hair highlighted, went to bank, to Dollar General, Kevin & I had lunch at Grammy's....Kj made it home from college for xmas break....Girl Scouts caroled around the square, then decorated cookies & made crafts. long, exhausting but fun day. got some very sincere compliments on my cookies from a few of the youngest girls. (& I carried on about the hardships of cookie baking just last nite....)

to-do list

took the day off work. kj is supposed to come home from college on xmas break today. have a highlight appt. at 9a.m., have to buy dog food & miss cuddles food, then pick up GS at school and Lineville for our annual Christmas Caroling and Christmas party.

have once again discovered that Katie awakens for school about as well as her older sister did. of course, God knows when she goes to bed....always waaaaay after me, I'm sure!

an incredible amount of work

I'm not sure what I was trying to prove, but I made 3 batches of cookies...chocolate chip, gingerbread, sugar cookie....and even using mixes, it was just exhausting. once upon a time I used to make homemade cookies....measuring ingredients....following recipes...

the girl scouts will have cookies to decorate tomorrow. will just get some of the freezer ones from Grammy's Grocery for Saturdays GS party....or buy some at Casey's! honestly!

have all the craft stuff out...the cookie badges and the toys the troop bought ready to hand out....now onto the piles of laundry on my bed that need put away....

p.s....my cookies don't look this good!

monday

school out 11:30- heating problems. kevin took the truck to Willis' to get the vibration deal dealt with. colder than a witches patootie. sitting on my butt family history blogging...katie has kayla over.

Pooter has a first name!

I found it reading a book about the Border states and slavery.....he will now be Philemon "Pooter" Dailey. but I can't get it changed on frontierville.....

also going to change Tallulah Jane (the new Tallulah Jane on my 2nd frontierville!) to Oh My Darlin' Clementine. haven't got that one to work either....