Finally Getting Christmas Going (Dec 15th 2012)

We are finally moved into our house although not totally unpacked, but there are things that take first place. Christmas has waited long enough and is time to get it going.
As things would have it, it seems it’s never the usual business around here lol. I have a full size pool table in the middle of my living room. No, that was not my idea, it was there. The kids daddy had come over to help move the furniture into place and set up the bedrooms. We tried to move the pool table but you can guess that did not work. So I am using it as a Christmas display table. You have to work with what’s given to you and make the best of it.

Work in progress

You’ll have to excuse me if I mistype while I write this as I am trying to down a cup of nasty Theraflu. It does work, I just wish they would make it taste less like medicine and more like the actual soothing chamomile, lemon, honey taste they claim to be. I have had the flu for a good month now. The degree of intensity comes and goes but it does not want to leave. This is what happens when you have multiple children and some of them go to germ town, I mean school. And how could you not hug them, kiss them, comfort them. My house is a merry go round of cold virus that laughs at my efforts to vanish it.
Ok , now that I have finished my cup of the yucky medicine and have washed the flavor off with a couple fudge filled cookies and ton of water, maybe I can focus on the theme at hand.
So I went to put together the Christmas tree. Its not my usual tree, is one that has been donated by the kids grandmother as mine is humongous and needs a mile long strand of lights and more ornaments than I have. Not to mention the fact that with the pool table in the room there is not enough space for a tree that big. Anyhow I go to take the pieces of the “slightly used tree” (which by the way is pre-lit) and there is no stand for the tree….Now I am left with two choices. Either I try to put up my regular tree where it doesn’t fit or don’t put up a tree at all yet. As I have mentioned before I can be a stubborn (I prefer determined) woman. I consider myself pretty resourceful when I need to be, so I take out the stand for my tree and see how the other tree fits in it. The stand is too wide but I am not defeated in the least. I cut pieces of a shoe box and and fill in the stand until is a snug fit. Now we are in business! Again is about working with what you have been given and making the best of it.
Oh , oh…I can feel my head start to float away as the Theraflu starts to take effect. This mami is going to put the laptop away and lay down to “watch” a movie I will not finish because I will be out before I’m half way through it lol The rest of the story will have to wait until tomorrow in the mean time, sleep well world.

In front of the decorated tree :)

The supervisor says "Good job!"

About 8 hours have gone by. I slept fairly good. Today is the last day of school. So now I am faced with two and a half weeks of having all the children in the house 24/7 with no “time out” back up like TV, internet (they do love great sites like Starfall, Sesame street, PBS kids, etc), a collection of DVD’s they have seen 100’s of times and a very limited variety of WII games. So is time to get creative. Don’t get me wrong, this are not activities I would want them to be engaged in for hours every day, but they are nice ones to have for when is time for me to cook dinner, or the weather outside is nasty, or when I need an hour of peace (aka no fighting between siblings) just to recharge. So what do I do with them? And keep in mind that I have a 10 yr old girl, a 5 1/2 yr old boy, a 4 yr old girl and a 20 month old girl at home. Some time will be spent outside riding bicycles and tricycles and running after the baby constantly to prevent her from going on the road. How do you all think I stay in shape? lol There are board games, which of course usually start nicely enough but eventually brings out an argument or a tantrum. Hmmmmm I wonder how long it will take before it gets to that. They can make Christmas cards, provided the baby is in her “jail” aka play pen or taking a nap to avoid mayor disasters. We can bake cookies to give out as presents and take out to neighbors, we can designate specific themes for play time, Little people day (the fisher Price ones I am talking about), Hot Wheels day, Barbie and friends day ( yes I know there is a boy in the house, he is learning how to be good to the women in his life), we can have story time where we make up our own stories.

Making Red Velvet cookie batter

Sampling some cookies

Well is days later and I have written other posts in the meantime. is a normal thing for this to happen as I can’t seem to be able to write uninterrupted unless is late at night and since I was under the influence of night time meds that never happened . But hey, that’s real life happening here, so even if I got to no conclusion I will still publish it when I get internet access. So I guess the conclusion of this post is that life is in constant motion, things hardly ever go as planned and still we manage to go on. And when it comes to children , they really do not need too much. I know mine have been perfectly happy having the tree and stockings up and the “DO NOT TOUCH” mami’s villa on the pool table with the Nativity. Aside for that , all they required is to be fed, listened to and loved showered on them. As I take my tired self to bed I only hope they know how much they mean to me and I hope my older, grown boys know how much I miss them and I still see their little faces running around and that in my heart they will always be my babies : )