Just call me the Grinch. Or Scrooge. Or meanie (if you're 5 or under and live at my house).It all started with me taking down the Christmas lights in the girls' bedroom.
And then continued with me breaking up the rousing game of ornament-golf when I found Sage and Eliza teeing off down the stairs (and calling it baseball).
And the last straw was me making zucchini casserole for dinner. I tell you, I practically had mutiny on my hands tonight when Mark got home.
If the truth be known, I'm a little grumpy, too. I hate taking down Christmas decorations. And delightful art projects.
I hate life going back to "normal" after the holidays. I love Christmas lights and music and my snowflake luminaries and olive wood. I love not needing a good excuse to drop off treats to neighbors whose names I can't remember.(And I love caramels and fudge. And I don't love treadmills, but I am going to learn to love mine this month with Discipline 501.)
Sage just came in and threw up zucchini casserole. I guess the joke's on me. It's settled--the tree is staying up until Three Kings Day. Because if I have to be up during the night to do laundry, I definitely deserve to walk by a beautiful tree.
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Heeeeeeeeeeeee! I love Lily's face. I love it I love it I love it. And you can't blame the girls for putting around the house--I know I'd do anything to avoid zucchini casserole. :) (at least it wasn't spaghetti squash pizza)
Poor Sage! Maybe next time you should hide the zucchini in zucchini bread instead.
Oh, and you don't need a good excuse to drop treats off to me. You can just do it-- any time!
I love the ornament gold photo!
How were we ever friends? We are so opposite on major issues.
1. Our tree was down the Monday after Christmas. (We need the space and some of the lights on the pre-lit tree were out so it bugged me.)
2. My treadmill is my happy place as long as my iPod is on.
3. Zucchini casserole...I don't even want to go there.
If you need to make treats you can send them to me. I do like zucchini bread and almost any other sweet. If it makes you happy then leave the tree up all year and decorate it will appropriate things like snowflakes for Jan., hearts for Feb., shamrocks for March, etc. That might be fun.
Good thing we have more in common than not. And you can tell your girls that you'll never be as mean as I am. Just ask my kids.
When's Three King's Day?! The week before next christmas? Perhaps playing one of the worst christmas songs ever "I cry the day that i take the tree down" (too whiny for me, or maybe it's just played 1 million times on FM100 over the course of the season) would facilitate? Or maybe it would just make you throw-up, instead of Sage! (hopefully that's not one of your top 5, if it is Sorry!) For the record, I think zucchini casserole sounds divine!
You are hilarious and so are our kids. Except sometimes broken ornaments aren't so hilarious in the moment. Anyway, just FYI, the most recent goal chart is actually called "Accountability." I think we already tried Discipline 501 (remember--the College Years?). The Discipline sequence wasn't quite so successful so I thought we'd opt for something new to spice things up. Like a fancy, spicy, brown baby. From Malawi.
Too funny! Our tree is still up too, if that makes you feel any better.
I forgot everything I was going to say after reading Mark's hilarious comment!!! Our Christmas tree is still up too, and Adam asked if I wanted him to take it down and I said, "Weeeelll...." Sage has some serious physical talents- eking out potty stuff five separate times during naps, and regurgitating her dinner! Wow. That picture of Lily is so funny! I wish it had a track to go with it so I could hear the machine gun cry.
No worries, my tree is still up...I may just leave it up this year, what is the point of taking it down since it is fake. :)
Shatterproof ornaments is what you need!
I love Lily's grumpy face.
Hey, I like you zucchini casserole - it's a Janel classic!
You totally look like Sandra Bullock in those cute sidebar pictures. Except you are glowing with goodness and purity. You have probably been told that a million times. Why am I just know seeing this?
It sounds like you need to have some major Valentine's day decorating to get you out of the post holiday dumps. But I wouldn't stop making treats. You made me all hungry thinking of caramel and fudge and other such lovelies.
And I agree with whoever Kimberlee is about you looking like Sandra Bullock (or Julia Roberts with your luscious lips).
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