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War Zone

The kids have 5 days off school. Parent teacher conferences and then Monday is Veterans Day. And the weather has been pretty crummy so the kids are stuck in the house more than we'd like.

This is what happens to our house when the kids are stuck inside for an inordinate amount of time. It becomes a War Zone:

The basement is absolutely trashed. You are looking at a large PVC pipe clubhouse covered in sheets. -House cleaning? I give up.

I can hardly wait for Christmas vacation.

 

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Animal Instinct

November 13, 2002

Little Maxie has basic animal instincts. Little Maxie like to bury his bones. Little Maxie likes to bury his bones where no one, including himself can find them. Little Maxie lives in the house. Little Maxie hides bones ALL over the house!

If you catch little Maxie burying a bone, and he knows you're watching him - Little Maxie will pick up that bone and go where no one can see him.

When little Maxie buries a bone, he noses invisible dirt over it. It's hilarious.

Here's one of the places I caught little Maxie burying his bones!

We have open steps that lead upstairs to the main floor. Well little Maxie has discovered this and slips through them onto this cabinet and 'buries' his bones along the edge. That's the white thing you see laying off to the left. I thought the boys were putting his bones there until little Max got caught red handed!

Silly little dog!

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Caught in the Act

November 25,2002

Oh, what a lovely fireplace. (but boy, talk about a messy housekeeper....gloves, shoes, a dirty sock)

Oh, well.....wait. What do we have here?

It's looks like an overgrown rat with an expensive Cabella's shearling slipper in his mouth!

I don't believe Max is a Yorkshire terrier. I think he comes from a strict bloodline of "Pack Rat Terriers" !

 

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Hark, Harold the Angel Sings

It's great - the kids are old enough now to put the tree up! (I know, I know - it's not a REAL tree. But this is so much easier, not to mention safer!)

So as they put the tree up I got to listen to wonderful Christmas songs coming out of the mouths of babes - like-

Jingle Bells - Batman smells - Robin laid an egg - Batmobile lost a wheel - Joker got away!

And of course this turned into a total downward spiral of "Hunter smells" then "Chase smells" etc.....

Currently as I'm writing this - the boys have a friend over and they are sitting at the kitchen island - cracking peanuts with their HEAD and eating them. This is after they decided that cracking them under their armpits doesn't work.....You just have to laugh!

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Santa

December 15, 2002

You know your kids are spoiled when Santa comes right to your front door to get your Christmas list!

 

Santa has my youngest Christmas list in his hand and of course my oldest - otherwise known as "Mr. Last Minute", hasn't written his yet, so he had to tell Santa what he wants.

I'm not too sure about Santa's elf....Thank goodness he didn't wear green tights! :)

Small towns are wonderful!

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Holiday Programs

December 20, 2002

Christmas is the time of school holiday programs!

Both kids got to play a guitar solo this year. We were such proud parents!

And of course the Christmas plays! My 5th grader was one of the 7 geese a laying...note the wings on his back. He was quite embarrassed when he had to flap across the stage!

My angel:

And my 3rd graders class sang a couple songs for us-complete with red Santa hats!

And a little nature to share....

- the squirrels have been busy eating all the acorns in our yard -

An ironic tidbit from a website I visit:

From the "mildly ironic" department of today's news...

A Swedish researcher with an organization called Clonaid has claimed the first successful human cloning...a baby girl born from a genetically engineered cell. The researcher and her organization, however, are having trouble gaining credibility because most people don't believe it's possible to clone a human being. In addition, there is some amused raising of eyebrows and surreptitious nudging of elbows going on because the organization was founded by a guy who claims to have been visited by space aliens back in the 1970s who told him that all human life was genetically engineered by people from another planet.

OK...got it...you can't have babies without the normal reproductive process taking place, and there are no such things as space aliens.

I now return you, and most of the world, to your celebration of the virgin birth of a baby, brought to you compliments of an invisible man in the sky.

 

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Dec. 22, 2002

Screen Saver Wars

The kids have been having screen saver wars on their computer. First Hunter wrote:

 "CHASE HAS CRUSTIES"

Then Mark snuck on their computer and wrote:

"HUNTER SMOOCHES GIRLS"

And of course then Hunter changed that to:

"CHASE SMOOCHES GIRLS"

I wonder what will be next? Should be interesting....

Made a few beads & vessels yesterday. A couple new vessel designs which I love. Maybe today will be another good glass day.

 

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