amount due. . . I apologize to the grandparents for filling your Christmas cards so full of photos you may have had to pay extra postage to receive them. Ummmm, I'm thinking this may have happened last year as well and nobody told me, until now. Sorry. I wasn't even thinking about it, but I hope you liked the pictures anyway. Put it on my tab and I'll do better next time.
high hopes. . . Dave would like to apologize for getting everyone's hopes up by telling people he wanted to travel to Africa in January. That was a pipe dream of his, since he wanted to use the last of this year's vacation time before it reset in February. No fact to this rumor, we aren't close to travelling yet. You should know better than believe Dave's plan though. ;) I just found out he told people HIS plan. Stick with me, I'm the one doing all the work here, I'll have the right information. ;)
wishlisted. . .The Disney store is taunting me with it's emails. Always a new discount or promo and here I am biting my nails trying not to click 'add to cart' . . . for ALL those adorable Disney Princess dolls. . .
. . . We already have Tinker Bell, Ariel, and Rapunzel. I ordered Tiana and Belle. I couldn't help myself. I think they are the cutest things and totally want them all! I'm so glad I have a girlie who I can pretend to buy them for. ;)
decoration-less. . . Miley wants to know when we'll be putting our lights up outside. She admires everyone else's and so she's got it into Dave's head that he needs to do some too. . . now that we're what, a handful of days away from Christmas and then take them down. ha ha. Well if that's what they want to do. . . I guess we'll see Saturday if it happens.
You've Got to be Kidding Me. . . I suffered from some serious frustration this past week, when our agent sent over some more forms we needed to get done for our adoption dossier. !!!?&@!?!! I hate wasting time, and it seems we've been twiddling our thumbs thinking they had things in hand, when in fact there was more to come. OK, so we got all the additional stuff in and NOW should be good to go. Fingers crossed, and then crossed again to be extra sure. Oh and the strangest thing we had to add to our dossier. . . after a federal and state background check, we also needed a letter from our local police department saying we were good citizens. Seriously, where's the trust? ;) I offered to provide a cup of my urine too, if it helps move the process along. OK, I really didn't, that's gross.
ho ho hum. . . Santa visited Miley's preschool this week. Miley is mostly indifferent to Santa, since we don't threaten her with him or make a fuss about getting magical presents. She wasn't afraid of him I guess, sat on his lap asked for a special bike that is purple (???) and told me he was her friend and they were going to go swimming some time.
subtle cues. . . Little Miss was all attitude the other day. I asked her why she was so crabby and she said, "Mom, look at my forehead (straight faced), see I'm not crabby, I'm happy." Oh right, the forehead wasn't scrunched, I should have noticed, and knew that meant she was in a good mood. ;)
facial ticks. . . So Miley loves to sing songs, and she loves it when I sing her a song and stop for her to fill in the word or line that is next. One night while I was singing her her bedtime songs she stopped me and said, 'mom I want to sing it like this' and then her eyebrows shot way up her forehead and back down, a couple times. Ummm, I sat for a second trying to figure out what that meant, when it hit me. . . I must raise my eyebrows when I stop to signal her to sing the next part. It looked freaky on her, I hope I don't look as ridiculous doing it. ;)
will work for charity. . . Miley is supposed to be working to earn some money to donate for charity. That is something her preschool does each Christmas. I can't figure what work to get this kiddo to do. She helped in the yard for cleanup, but I'd say her effort wasn't worth much cash. Am I supposed to be being generous or working her little fingers off? Who is learning the lesson here? Hmmmm. I've got to make a longer list of chores.
smitten. . . I'm feeling a deep pull to the new
Nikon 1 camera. It's so pretty, and little, and cool, and pretty. I'm in deep
smit here and begging Dave to let me try out another point and shootish camera!
wake up . . . Miley experienced a first this week. She was laying on the couch watching a movie, when she got up her arm was hurting and she was very distressed about it (it fell asleep). She was panicked. I told her it was just asleep and it would feel better in a minute. She yelled "wake up" at her arm and then turned to me "mom, it's not listening, we need to get to the doctor's office." . . and then she brought me my cell phone so I could text daddy and ask him what to do about her arm. ;)
Bah. . . I can tell Christmas is almost here, cause I can't take much more of these Christmas movies. I really need to wrap some presents though, I've got nothing.
