A Gift From Grammy!

I wonder, did she think through how the monsters would entertain themselves with the wagon? Maybe she did and bought anyway:)

A Few (Mostly) Good Days

The house has been over-hauled(again) and all the new new toys from Christmas have a home. We are all unpacked from our trip and I am getting caught up with the laundry. It has been nice being home with the family. Husband did venture out to work today, but that was ok, he needed a break from us:)

The monsters and I have done little today. They have been enjoying playing with there new toys. They even made it outside with there new WAGON that Grammy insisted on buying even though I thought they were too old! I was wrong, it is their favorite present!!! Declan and Killi are also enjoying the new Wii games they got. And Maggie spends most of her time with her Bitty Baby.

Declan and Killi still have coughs and Maggie is on day three with a fever. I too have begun coughing, but I am not feeling bad today. Hopefully this bug will pass me by quickly! I guess a trip to the doctor is in store for tomorrow if Maggie still has a fever. My poor little niece has been sick for three days too! Double ear-infections, but she is still running a fever and not wanting to eat, which is not making life easy on her parents- sick babies are the worst, you feel so bad for them and have no idea how to help them! I am happy mine can usually tell me what hurts:)

That's all- now I will switch laundry and start dinner!

A Few Christmas Photos

It was difficult to find, but I managed a few good(and by good I mean no tears:) pictures of Christmas in New Jersey. I am happy to report that next year Christmas will be at home in VA!!!



The girls opening presents!




Declan with a new Webkinz-




Killi falling in love with Biscuit:)




Santa bringing gifts to the house!!!!


That was it for happy moments in the Garden State. Stayed tuned for more details, I am trying to calm down before I tell my tale.

Home

I have never been so happy to be home in my life!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays?

We made it to Jersey. That is about the only good thing I can say about the past few days. Our first night here, we were woken up with some "house" issues in the middle of the night. The monsters are crazy and coughing! I am PMS-ing! My MIL is doing all she can to make me want to hit her! The girls keep begging to go home! And my husband keeps talking about staying longer!

I think the idea of family and the holidays is much better than the reality. The Reality is that while they are "blood" these are not the people that fill our daily lives. It makes the trip complicated. Things are different. And I am ready to go home.

Happy Birthday Killi Girl!

Because I have time now and I am not sure I will tomorrow, I am going to write my birthday post for my Killi monster. Tomorrow my "surprise" baby is turning six! I cannot believe it! Five months after giving birth to a baby, the last thing I was expecting was to go to the doctor and here there was another one coming! But 9 moths later she came, the best Christmas Present I could have ever gotten. My beautiful baby girl.

I can honestly say, that she is the sweetest child I have ever met. Her kindness to all is amazing. Her love of animals and all living things is incredible. While I don't always understand where she is coming from, I know it is never from a mean place:) I hope that never changes.

Have a Great Day Baby!

Family Fun

We had a wonderful day today(mostly:) After a very few hours of sleep, we had a pretty lazy morning. All of us except Declan, who joined Becca and her tribe for an outing. The girls and I were supposed to be cleaning the house but instead, we vegged. Around 11am, I forced myself into a shower and shortly after I was done, Declan returned home and we headed to the AT&T store for a new cell phone to replace the one I misplaced on Thursday(which I am sure will turn up, but I cannot wait). I was happy when we got to the store because while it was busy, they had alot of sales people, so there was no waiting. I quickly picked out a new phone(a blackberry curve) and we were on our way. Next we stopped for a bite to eat, Husband bought an entertainment book, so we only go where we have coupons, poocons- sorry Bec:) After that we hit Linens and Things, but nothing good they were pretty picked over. Then we were headed home.

Husband had other ideas! It was a beautiful day, cold but beautiful, so he threw out the idea of heading over to George Washington's birthplace. It was only about a 40 minute ride from where we were, and it was a nice ride. Once we got there we discovered we were one of only two visitors. So we pretty much had the place to ourselves. It was fun. The kids ran and played and there were farm animals so they had a ball! I would but up pictures if I could figure out how to get them from the new phone to the computer:) Well, even w/o pictures it was a good time!