Holidays, in Our Style

Another Christmas came and passed.  Boy was it fun to have a break from work and focus on the family.  Mariano made duck that I got from an Amish farm.  It was delicious.  I made a squash soup, that didn't turn out well at all!  Since then, we've been playing with some of the new toys that family members got for the kids and enjoying hiding out in the house together.

- Nalini has taken to playing with dolls that she received for her birthday.

She is getting a temper too

- Kaio shat in the bath tub

- I'm getting and looking old

time goes faster the older you get

 -Kaio discovered his first icicle and we made our first snow man

- Kaio whines and it makes me crazy

- my stepmother complains about having to clean her 8 bathrooms

- missing mariano's family

- working from home and trying to make yogurt, but to no avail

- did you know that crock pots have lead in them?

- We got our first family chirstmas tree.  A potted one, so that we can plant it, or keep it in the house for years to come.  We only had two ornaments though, a little painted christmas tree and a popsicle stick rain deer that kaio made in daycare.

- christmas is about being with family and having fun together

- I've been making teas

- kids sat in the wagon and we all went for a wagon ride around the block

Since it was raining the day after we got the wagon, Mari fashioned a covered wagon from a tent, and we all climbed in to take a ride around the block.  Nalini was going nuts with excitement, but then she fell asleep.