Snowflake Art

We had to make a family snowflake for Charlie's school. Please note the toddler glueing technique. "Less is more" is a pretty foreign concept. We decided to add buttons all over our snowflake. Charlie had a great time placing as many buttons as he could onto his masterpiece.

Cookie Exchange

The cookie exchange was a lot of fun. For those of you who have never been to one, basically each person brings a specified amount of one type of cookie. At the end, each guest collects and takes home cookies from all the other guests. It is a great way to get a variety of cookies without doing a lot of baking. Not that I'm promoting laziness. . . Ok, maybe I am.

Although the cookie exchange was fun I had apparently lost my baking mojo before the event. It took me 3 tries before I found a recipe that actually worked. But I finally went with Peppermint Twist Kisses. They were easy and looked festive.





Check out the spread! Everything was so pretty and delicious.



















As you can see, we had a party crasher towards the end. The kid was in heaven. Cookies as far as the eye can see and hugs from one of his best buds, he was one happy camper.

I am so lucky to live by such a nice group of women. They were all a lot of fun. I got the impression that the party was a bit mellow. But I found out later that that was only because I was sitting on the wrong side of the room. I guess that conversation got quite colorful. I am sorry I missed it.

I am already looking forward to next year.

Charlie's Note of The Day

When Charlie took his banana out of his lunch box, he pretended it was a dumbbell and said he was strong.

Computer Update

I should be able to post pictures tomorrow or the next day. I can't wait to get on my own computer. Pictures aside, nothing makes a woman feel like she has "man hands" like trying to type on a laptop keyboard.

Tap Tap Tappity Tap Tap

That was Morse Code for "My computer has died." It has been a long few days. I am now on a laptop that we had laying around. One of the best things about being married to a techie is that there is always an extra computer laying around. And keyboards. And monitors. And power strips. You get the idea.

Shawn will be getting a new computer and I will get his old one. It's fine by me. But, this is the third time this scenario has played out since we have been married. And I am beginning to wonder if he's not breaking the computers on purpose.

My photo library is on the other computer. So, for now I won't be able to post pictures until I can get a real machine. Maybe my first picture should be of Shawn getting kicked out of the Apple Store because he is drooling all over the displays. Again.

Glad I Live In Such A Safe Place

Still Not Good at Waiting

The other three showed up at the door. They are Blue Winged Jewell, Ebb and Tortoise Shell. My parents actually got me the dragonfly one. What can I say? I have a family stock full of awesome gift givers. As you can imagine, I was very excited about the Blue Winged Jewell. I even entered a Haiku contest, given by the company, to try to win it. Yes, you read that right. When this year's ornaments came out, I literally squealed at the computer when I saw it. There is a red one too. But I am pacing myself. A person can only handle so much hand blown glass in one sitting.