Asher – 6.5 years
Chancery – 4 years
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Asher: “Do you have any idea what is inside my safe?”
Asher: “It’s a music card!”
Chancery: “And you have more cards!”
Asher: “This is what it would be like to be inside the safe, Chancery.”
Chancery: “I’d rather be out, Asher.”
New Years Day we went to visit Mr Harrie & Miss Geesje’s farm. It was out of the ordinary since PChad actually got to come with us. So, the kids showed him around the barn a bit, the calves sucked on their fingers, & we saw the cats! I think Chancery could sit in the piles of straw petting the cats all day.
It was fairly cold, so after a bit we went into the house for coffee time & olliebollen, a traditional Dutch New Year’s treat. We ended up playing Qwirkle. The kids caught on fairly quickly & the game was afoot!
Chancery was looking at her tiles, then said, “Do you know why the starburst got out of the game?”
Miss Geesje: “No, why did it?”
Chancery: “Because it had the most points!”
I’m not sure if Chancery understood the double meaning & why her joke worked, especially since she followed it up with several jokes that did not work, hoping for the same reaction from us, but we were quite impressed with her joke!
Asher – 6.5 years
Chancery – 4 years
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Chancery: “Asher, look! Mummy’s taking our picture!”
Asher: “This is strange, Chancery. We have our church clothes on, but it’s not Sunday!”
Chancery: “Where do you think we are going, Asher?”
Asher: “Where are you taking us, Mum?”
Chancery: “Oh yeah, it’s New Year’s Day! We’re going to church, Asher!”
Asher – 6.5 years
Chancery – 4 years
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Asher: “Do you think I can get my grabber in every picture today, Chancery?”
Chancery: “I’m not sure, Asher, but Mummy said the faster we cooperate, the faster the pictures will go.”
Asher: “We’re pretending to be stockings!”
Chancery: “I think you missed having your grabber in the last picture, Asher!”
Asher: “That’s ok, I got it in all the other pictures!”
Asher – 6 years
Chancery – 4 years
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Chancery: “I just love Christmastime, don’t you, Asher?”
Chancery: “It’s a great time to remember that God loves us so much that he sent his son to save everyone!”
Asher: “Yes, & we get to spend time together with our family too!”
Chancery: “It’s like the biggest birthday party for Jesus!”
Asher: “He sure has had a lot of birthdays, he must be really old, Chancery!”
After the Salt Shaker of the Future, we have had a bit more activity at the table lately. It seems that our pepper shaker is where the people from the Nativity must go when they need to apologise for things they have done wrong.
Just the other day I heard one of the Wisemen saying, “I’m really sorry for tickling people with my feather when they are sleeping!”
I wonder what special thing the napkin holder does?
Asher – 6 years
Chancery – 4 years
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Chancery: “Asher is sick today, so I decided to stand by the stockings, to show that my dress is the same as a stocking!”
Chancery: “See? If I stand here, can you see that I look like a stocking?”
Chancery: “I look like a stocking full of girl!”
Saturday we decided to get a live Christmas tree for the first time in our 13 years of marriage. The kids were excited for the big adventure!
The kids looked high & low, & soon found the perfect tree!
There it is!
Right beside our driveway!
We agreed that it was a nice tree, but perhaps a bit large for the house… We decided to try it anyway!
PChad got the chainsaw out…
The kids played a game of hide & seek…
The cutting commenced…
The tree was felled…
It made it into the house (though we forgot to give it a good shake first)!
We decorated it & are ready to fill the space with gifts!
It’s a actually pretty nice for a driveway tree, unfortunately we only have one other pine tree on our yard, so it won’t be so easy every year!
I couldn’t get to sleep at all, no, no! ♪ ♫
These are the things that run through my mind when I can’t get to sleep…
-I wrapped all the stocking presents, & I know that I took one thing out of the pile for Asher, but did I put something BACK in the pile to replace it?
-Now that we have presents under our tree, it’s going to get harder to put water in the tree stand. I should get a funnel with a piece of hose on it. That would make it easier… Wait, I’ve seen those before!
-I’m really hungry! I’d love to have a cookie, but I know I shouldn’t eat cookies this late. I SHOULD eat celery, but who WANTS to eat celery? Maybe I’ll have some raisins.
-I heard my phone beep downstairs. I wonder who would have messaged me at this time of night? Maybe one of my friends can’t sleep either! I should go check.
Asher & Chancery were playing with our Playmobile Nativity set. Asher was playing with the angel, & flew up to PChad & asked…
