The indoor soccer session was very strange with all the holidays - we had a two week break and the last class was tonight. Carrie really loves soccer. I think I may try to find a summer soccer league for her this year!
I’ve been having trouble with my trusty old Kodak EasyShare point & shoot camera - the lens cover doesn’t retract all the way anymore. I use it a lot, mostly when my Canon dSLR is too much to carry around, and since we’re headed to Disney in a couple of weeks I figured it would be a good idea to replace it before then.
I bought a new camera today, but for various reasons I think I may have chosen poorly. I’ll give it a few more days to see if it’s a learning curve issue. I hope I just haven’t found the right settings to get decent pictures out of it yet…though as far as I can tell there really aren’t that many settings to change…
I think maybe I’m just spoiled by my dSLR.
Be it hereby resolved that:
1. I will finish more projects than I start this year. And “finish” can mean actually completing the project, ripping it out, or dropping the half finished parts off to Craft Bits & Pieces.
2. I will declutter my house. I am tired of living with all of this stuff. If someone came through my house while I was gone and cleared away 95% of the stuff, I wouldn’t miss it, so I ought to be able to get rid of it myself.
We spent the evening at Lisa’s annual countdown to 6:00 party, and now Carrie is working really hard to stay awake until midnight to see the ball drop for the first time. We’ll see whether that was a good idea or not tomorrow morning…
Carrie and I went to see the new Disney movie this afternoon. It was really good, and Carrie did very well even with the scary bits. I like how this Disney Princess was not waiting around for Prince Charming to make her life better and instead was working hard to try to make her dreams come true!
Carrie, Uncle Michael and I decorated a whole gingerbread village yesterday. It’s a *lot* more work putting together and decorating five tiny houses than one big one!
Good thing Carrie has teeny-tiny fingers, because Michael and I couldn’t manage the teeny-tiny candies they included in the kit - they were practically sprinkles. I think “candy” is a very misleading name for those little bitty things. Tweezers might have helped!
The morning didn’t quite go the way we wanted - I think this is the first Christmas in my whole entire life that I didn’t get to mass - but we had a mostly good day. The girls found out today that…
…we’re going to Disney World!
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…except for Mommy clicking the mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds, not actually sleeping, but calling for “Mommmmmmy” instead…
Yeah. Don’t they get that Santa won’t come until everyone is sleeping???
Last night I piped some simple decorations on pre-baked (yes, I cheated) gingerbread men for the bus drivers:
And today Carrie and I baked a million (OK, only 16 dozen or so) G.G. cookies. She even stayed up really late to help us decorate them all tonight. This is the first time in years that I’m not going to up past midnight on the night before Christmas Eve finishing them by myself!
All the K/1 classes met in the school cafeteria tonight to construct these gingerbread houses out of empty milk cartons, graham crackers, frosting and candies. A cute, fun project!
