I just love the gift giving part of Christmas. I love the hunt for the perfect gift for each person, & then watching them open it. We opened our gifts as a family on Christmas Eve this year.
What could be better than seeing that delight? Celebrating Jesus’ birth! The ultimate gift all wrapped up in swaddling clothes. It’s pretty awesome to think about!
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!
We were having Moroccan Chicken a few nights ago for dinner, & the kids have definite parts of it that they do not love. Usually at the end of the meal we find all the tomatoes from their portions still in their bowl, but the raisins are always a favourite! The recipe calls for 1/3 cup of raisins, but since I love them too, I tend to add almost a full cup!
So, we were dining on our Moroccan feast, & Asher turned to me & said, “Mummy, I do not really like these egg peas. They are not my favourite.”
“Egg peas?” I inquired, “What is an egg pea?”
Asher: “These little brown round things.”
Me: “Oh, you are silly! Those are chick peas!”
Asher: “Well, I couldn’t remember what they were called, and anyway chicks do come from eggs!”
Asher – 7.5 years
Chancery – 5 years
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PChad just walked into the room a few minutes ago & asked, “What are you watching?”
Me: “The U.K. Christmas special.”
PChad: “Is that Robbie Williams singing?”
Me: “No, it’s Gary Barlow.”
PChad: “They sound the same.”
Me: “Well, they were both in ‘Take That’.”
PChad: “He sounds a lot like Robbie Williams.”
Me: “Robbie already performed.”
PChad: “I thought so!”
Sunday was a snow day, & since I knew we’d be taking Christmas pictures, I decided to just wait rather than take pictures of the kids in their jammies!
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Asher – 7.5 years
Chancery – 5 years
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Saturday night we went out to dinner, & a few booths over, we saw a familiar face. Chancery was trying to figure out who we were talking about, so she started pointing to various people. We have tried teaching her that pointing at people is bad manners, so we were trying to discourage her pointing to everyone in our vicinity.
Asher decided to weigh in on the conversation, “And especially don’t point with your middle finger, Chancery. It means a very bad word. It means the ‘S’ word. I don’t want to say it, but it’s S-T-U… you know what.”
Sunday we had a big snowstorm in the afternoon that left us with about a foot of snow. Monday & Tuesday were cold, but nice days, then Wednesday we had another snowstorm that left us with another foot of snow. The kids had no school, so in the afternoon we sent them out to make a snowfort!
The main idea was to get the kids outside to get some exercise, & in that case, the mission was accomplished!
A few weeks ago, Asher decided to do an experiment with snow. He wanted to see how long it would take snow to melt, so he took some snow from outside where the temperature was 4°C. The temperature inside the house was 20°C. He took pictures of the snow every 5 minutes. It took 1 hour & 15 minutes for his chunk of snow to melt completely! We asked if he wanted up to put the results on Facebook, & he was adamant that we ‘publish’ it!
What did I expect would happen?
-I expected it to melt in 3 days.
What did I like best about this experiment?
-That it melted in only 1 day, & it was easy.
What did I learn from it?
- I learned that whenever you take ice in your hand, it would take about half an hour to melt.
Anything else you’d like to say?
- When it’s in a cup it takes 1 hour & 15 minutes. And not half an hour.
Asher – 7 years
Chancery – 5 years
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Asher – 7 years
Chancery – 5 years
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Chancery: “I wish we could go on the airplane & visit Grandpa & Grandma!”
Every night before bed, we ask the kids to say what their 3 favourite things were that happened that day. A few nights ago when I asked Chancery, she said “the Deal” was one of her favourite things.
Now, the kids are not allowed to watch TV or play video games until 5pm, but I had made a deal with them at 4:30, that if they could play nicely together with no fighting or arguing, they could watch TV at 4:45. About 5 minutes into it, they were fighting & arguing. I started coming up the stairs, & Chancery said, “No, Mummy, we are talking about it!”
They wanted to sort it out on their own. However, I have 2 very stubborn, opinionated children, & neither one would back down from the injustice they thought they were suffering from at the other one’s hand. So I had to get involved.
It was now 4:45pm. Chancery asked if they could have a new deal. So, I told them that if they could not fight or argue for the next 10 minutes they could watch TV early (it was only 5 minutes early, but any extra time is extra fun!). This time they had a tiff, but they talked it out (instead of fighting it out), & they managed to get the 5 minutes extra.
Even though the first attempt was unsuccessful, the second worked, & Chancery said it was one of her favourite things from that day. Maybe I’ll have to make more deals!
Last year was our first year to have a real Christmas tree. It was not a difficult task to find a tree last year since we had a pine tree right beside our driveway which we had decided to remove, so we just used the top part of that.
They even had Apple Cider & cookies to help us warm up. We really liked that part!
Asher – 7 years
Chancery – 5 years
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