Journal Entries

As an early Christmas gift, the girls made a trip to the American Girl store with Grandpa & Grandma.  Natalie had been talking about this for the past two years, so she was excited when they finally made her dream come true.

As a Christmas surprise, the girls received American Girl dolls.  We had unboxed Kate's doll and the doll still had a hair net on, but she was walking around with it like that.  I asked Kate if she wanted to take the hair net off, but she said, "Oh, that's one of Natalie's favorite parts, so I was waiting for her to come back so that we could do it together."  I love it!:)

Special Veteran's Day program at school with our family's favorite veteran-

Overheard from the other room- The girls had a hip hop beat playing and were dancing very enthusiastically to it.  Scott saw them and said, "Stop it!  This is what's ruining our country." 

Kate and a friend have a play date scheduled for tomorrow.  They even wrote out a detailed itinerary at school listing everything they want to do while they are together.  Instead of asking, "How many more days until Christmas?" Kate has been asking, "How many more days until the play date?"  

She received a puzzle for Christmas and I suggested that she could work on it with her friend during the play date.  She thoughtfully said, "Well, doing puzzles is not on the list, but talking IS on the list, so maybe we could do the puzzle during the talking time."  

She later said, "If I wake up at 7:45 tomorrow, how many hours would it be until the play date?"  When I told her, she groaned and said, "I'm going to try and sleep until 1:00."  

It better be a rip-roarin' good time because it's been HIGHLY anticipated!:)  They put "Eat Brownie" on the list too, so I better get on that and whip up a batch!

Natalie: How come you laugh at Kate and never get mad at her?  But don't worry, I'm not going to throw her in a pit.  (Oh, thank you, Joseph...I mean...Natalie)

Take a long look at the kitties because they are on borrowed time.  For some reason, no one responded to my ad to adopt them.  Perhaps I should have left out the line about one of them regressing in his litter box training.  Anyway...not sure if we will keep them around much longer. 

Scout went a huntin' on Thanksgiving morning and brought home a big rabbit.  Thankfully, Carol made a delicious turkey that we were able to eat instead. 

Natalie on Christmas Eve:  Don't forget to put out presents tonight.
Me: Really??  Have I ever forgotten that?!  
Natalie:  No, but it's just one of those things that kids must remind their parents of kind of like you reminding us to be good at Grandpa and Grandma's house. 

                                        

To be continued...(Can you tell I'm on a mission to catch up on 2019 before the end of the year?!)