Showing posts with label Vicky and Jamie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vicky and Jamie. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Not Sure What to Call This...


As usual, Christmas at Redsock Mama's house was unpredictable to say the least.
Michael and Catherine came first, bearing gifts.

Henry got a drum!
That wasn't bad, it had a pleasant sound but since my tree was on the clapper...
Yes, it was off and on all evening!


Teagan and Henry, who are best friends, shared!


It was a musical evening...
The little kids got slide whistles...



Locklan got a harmonica...
He loved it!



Then he became a one man band!


He also got a watch and announced the time every two minutes!

I got Teagan a 'dancing dress' and ballet shoes...


Every time someone asked her to twirl she did...
complete with a 2.5 year old's version of an arabesque.

But the best part was Grandma Jan's special gift...
I decorated 5 gallon buckets...


I made one for Henry and one for Locklan and Teagan...


And put 50 indoor snowballs in each...


How long do you think those snowballs stayed in the bucket?

It wasn't the kids, it was the adults!


I didn't get many pictures because once those snowballs started flying,
I was laughing too hard!

Seriously, I was not looking forward to Christmas for the first time in my life...

But I prayed that I would be okay,
and I was...

Everyone was out of here by 8, they predicted freezing rain and snow,
and we got it.

On Friday, Ashley sent this text:

In case anyone is wondering, we still have ballet shoes on
and we are still using the harmonica and 
announcing the time every minute!

Mr. K and I planned to sleep in and stay home on Christmas...

I didn't sleep in but we did stay home.

But it's all good.  Back to reality soon.














 

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Over Full

Yesterday started out rough...

I took the wrong check book to the bank...

Took the wrong amount of cash out...

Burned the ham...

Had presents to wrap...

Yelled at Ron...

Stressed that my patio was messy...

Had family coming at 5 for a dinner that was burned...

Ron went out and bought another ham...

I put it in the oven and sent him to pick up my  mom, an hour away...

Andy  and Ashley and kids got here early, I wasn't dressed!

Then...it was Christmas eve...

Ashley carved the ham while I took a bath...

The kids entertained us...

Tony and Mindy came...

Vicky and Jamie came...


Michael and Catherine came later when Michael got off work...

We laughed and ate, we ate and laughed...

The kids opened gifts and played...

~sigh~

I love family time, and it's no secret that I love Christmas...

Last night just before I fell asleep, as I was watching It's a Wonderful Life for the 845 time,
 I got this text...


~double sigh~