Thursday, December 24, 2009
Last weekend we got around 5 inches of snow here are the girls playing it on Sunday after Church.
Here is where I found the girls and Romy one morning after they had gotten all ready for school. Reading the Bibles that our Church gave them for Christmas. That is such an awesome gift.
Tuesday was the girls last day of school before Christmas Break, and that evening we had planned on going Christmas Caroling with some other families from our Church. We would be caroling at two different nursing homes in our area. Both girls were very excited to go. Midway through the day I got a call from the school’s nurse, she informed me that Bridget had a bad stomach ache and had been to see here twice. I picked her up and and she seemed to be a little uncomfortable, but as the afternoon went on she seemed okay and was disappointed when she found out she would not be able to go caroling. As our family set down to eat homemade pizza we discovered that Bridget had another reason why she did not want to stay in school and that she actually felt fine. She had forgotten to wear her sneakers for a special gym time at the end of the day and did not want to be embarrassed by having to sit out. After the discussion on how it was wrong to lie and that all she needed to do is call home and I would have drove the sneakers over to the school, after all I did forget to remind her to wear them. We decided we would let her go caroling, since we considered it sort of an act of service. Us singing songs to these people might be the only CHRIST-mas act they see. We did take away her electronic privileges for the next day as punishment. Anyways here is a picture of the group caroling. It was such a pleasure to see our act make so many people happy!
Here is where I found the girls and Romy one morning after they had gotten all ready for school. Reading the Bibles that our Church gave them for Christmas. That is such an awesome gift.
Tuesday was the girls last day of school before Christmas Break, and that evening we had planned on going Christmas Caroling with some other families from our Church. We would be caroling at two different nursing homes in our area. Both girls were very excited to go. Midway through the day I got a call from the school’s nurse, she informed me that Bridget had a bad stomach ache and had been to see here twice. I picked her up and and she seemed to be a little uncomfortable, but as the afternoon went on she seemed okay and was disappointed when she found out she would not be able to go caroling. As our family set down to eat homemade pizza we discovered that Bridget had another reason why she did not want to stay in school and that she actually felt fine. She had forgotten to wear her sneakers for a special gym time at the end of the day and did not want to be embarrassed by having to sit out. After the discussion on how it was wrong to lie and that all she needed to do is call home and I would have drove the sneakers over to the school, after all I did forget to remind her to wear them. We decided we would let her go caroling, since we considered it sort of an act of service. Us singing songs to these people might be the only CHRIST-mas act they see. We did take away her electronic privileges for the next day as punishment. Anyways here is a picture of the group caroling. It was such a pleasure to see our act make so many people happy!
Yesterday the girls and I baked cookies and stuff. Here the girls are helping with putting ingredients in our bread machine for our gingerbread men.
I decided to use my bread machine as a mixer this year and it worked awesome. One day I hope to have a Kitchen Aid Pro 450 stand mixer to make baking easier. The girls and I decided to surprise Brenda with some Cow Patties (Quick/No Bake cookies). Here the girls are adding sugar and mixing up everything before we add the oats and peanut butter.
The final product pictures.
Cow Crap….I mean Cow Patties (Quick/No Bake cookies)
We will be decorating some of the gingerbread men today and will post some pictures at some point. Last night our dear friends, the Meigel’s, took the girls for the evening for their annual gift creation for us. They have helped the girls make us a gift for Christmas for several years now. This family is truly a reflection of God and His wish to us all. This year they made wreaths and sleighs full of chocolate. Awesome, explains it well. They must have been eating something with whipped cream, DJ sent me this picture via her phone.
So there are some of the pictures of what we have been doing this week. Looking forward to one of my favorite Church services this evening, Christmas Eve candle light service, it simply gives me chills every year.
Blessings to all!!
