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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Time

Well, it's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!  The season is upon us, and I am SO not ready!!!  I am hoping to go out shopping today, and finish it up.  Yeah, right!  Then, I get to wrap!!  Maybe I should just get gift bags and be done with it.  :)

My parents are having Matthew come over tomorrow afternoon, and spend the night with them.  To say he is excited, is an understatement!  He had his dad get out a bag, so he can get packed up.  He was commenting on how big the bag was, and that he could hide in it, and surprise the grandparents!  So, he put himself in there, and then zipped it up.  Then, he started yelling that he couldn't get out!  LOL  Really, he is an intelligent child.  Just lacks some common sense--as in the story of the train.  I haven't told you that one, yet. 

My hubby has a fascination with train sets to go around the Christmas tree.  So, he has a new train set under this years tree.  For some unknown reason, Matthew laid his head down, as close to the track as he could, and got hit in the head by the train.  I found this story out, when I asked him at the dinner table what the funny mark on his forehead was.  :)

I've been having fun making new candies, and cookies!  I tried out making Home made Mounds Bars, and Layered Mint Fudge.  Both yummy.  We also made up some Home made Snicker Bars, and some pretzel candies.  We made 2 different kinds of Pretzel candies--you take the round pretzels, and place a Hershey's kiss in the middle, put it in the oven, and melt it for a bit, then, remove from the oven and press in an M&M.  The other way, was to take round pretzels, and place a Rolo candy in.  Melt it a bit, and then press in a pecan--made little Turtles.  YUM!!  We also made a triple batch of Peanut Butter Kiss cookies, and my dh made some roll out cookies yesterday!  I don't do rollouts!  Matthew was hoping for some Christmas tree cookies, and so Sam and Matthew helped cut out the cookies--Sam liked making stars!  The rest of the children frosted and decorated the cookies.

I found a new fun, FREE organizer.  Did I mention it is free????  I used to love my Palm Pilot, but this will take the place of my Palm Pilot.  I love to go paperless when I go shopping.  The new program is found online, but, you can download it to your iPad, or even to your smartphone.  You can put in shopping lists (even make up lists for each of your favorite stores!), it has a calendar (so you don't double book appointments, like someone in our family does--hint, hint, Rachel!), a journal, to keep notes of what your family is doing.  You can put in all your family members, and their email addies,if you choose, and it will email the family the week's schedule!  You can color code each family member.  You can put in your recipes, as well as make menus from the site.  All this for free!!  (it does have some ads on the site, but I haven't had a problem with that!)  They do have a Gold version, where you can pay, so you don't get the ads, but, like I said, I haven't had a problem with it.  You can tell each family member what your username and family password is, so they can each go in and add to the schedule, etc.  The name of the program is Cozi, and can be found at http://www.cozi.com

We have a fun game on Facebook right now.  Everyone is guessing whether Josh and Brittany will have a boy or girl, what day the baby will be born, and how big.  Their actual due date is December 30th.  I can't wait to meet this newest blessing.

Well, I suppose I should get going, and get some shopping done, with my Cozi list!!

Remember to keep Jesus first, in all of your preparations!