Only 5 days left till Christmas! Hope you all are ready and excited for it to get here. There's lots of excitement here at our house today...well, except for this morning but that story is coming in a minute...We are getting our clothes and presents packed this afternoon for our trip to AR! The girls are so excited! They can't wait to get there. We are leaving tomorrow morning after Taylor's Christmas program is over.
I am so relieved to be finished shopping and wrapping gifts! As I know you are too...if you're done. If you're not, I'm so sorry. I don't know about you but I always agonize over buying a gift for someone. Will they like it? Can they use it? Is it nice enough/too nice for the occasion? It takes me forever to finally decide to buy whatever it is. Pathetic! I tried this year, in an attempt to spare myself from some of the stress, to ask myself "Would YOU like it? Could YOU use it if you were them?" If the answer was yes, I bought it, if it was no, I walked away ticked off and in search of another gift. ;-)
Today I received a perfect gift from a friend. It was a new apron and Paula Deen's Christmas cookbook. I was so excited about it!!! I love to cook, love Paula Deen and now I can cook in style in my pretty new apron! Oh, the simple things that thrill us!
Yesterday Nathan and I celebrated our 9th anniversary. Can't believe it's been NINE years! We both forgot about it until reminded by someone else wishing us a happy anniversary. Would that have ever happened in the first 8 years? Not on your life! -at least not on my end!! But this year, we've been so busy with everything that it hadn't crossed our minds. We had a nice dinner of frozen pizza and were both so tired, I was in bed asleep by 9:30 and he fell asleep in his recliner somewhere around that time too. Again, PATHETIC! Ha! We had already decided not to get each other anything. We're going to Branson while we're in AR and we'd decided to let that trip be our anniversary gifts.
So that brings me to the sad story that took me out of the running for the Mother of the Year Award. Yesterday morning, Taylor was getting ready for school and her other front tooth fell out. It has been loose for some time but I kept telling her not to touch it until her OTHER front permanent tooth came in. (All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!...) I even told her the other day not to pull it because if she did she may have trouble singing in her program on Friday. I told her that her tongue would keep slipping through the giant hole in the front of her mouth and the words to her song would come out like "Up ons the howth thop rain theer pauth..." She was worried about it then and stopped pushing it back and forth. So that morning when it fell out she was horrified and said "Oh no! How am I going to sing?!!" I said "Don't worry, I was just joking with you...you can still sing fine." As I walked out of the bathroom I heard her going "Fa La La, La La, La La La La"! Ha! She came out smiling. That night, Nathan put her in bed and they put her tooth in a plastic bag and stuck it on the side of her bed post because she was afraid that it would slip out from under her pillow. As I said before, I was dog tired and fell asleep early, completely forgetting about the tooth fairy coming. Nathan had also forgotten and fell asleep as well. This morning I go in to wake her up, see the wadded up plastic baggie sticking out of the side of the bed post and I wondered "What the heck is that?" but didn't think any more about it. I sat on her bed, gently waking her up and all of sudden, she jerks herself up and starts feeling frantically under her pillow. Confused, I said "What are you doing?" Then she looks at me bewildered and says sadly "The tooth fairy didn't come." Instant dagger to the heart! :( I quickly looked around thinking where can I find a dollar to sneak under her pillow or SOMETHING!!!!....there was nothing. All I could come up with was, "I guess she couldn't find your tooth since it wasn't under your pillow." I felt terrible! I told her we'd try again tonight and this time put it under her pillow. She seemed still confused but okay with that. I quick, hurried downstairs to give Nathan the dirtiest look of his life and somehow make it HIS fault. But after the dirty look and saying "Hello?! Tooth fairy didn't come last night!" I felt sorry for him and saw the same pain in him that I'd felt a few minutes earlier, so I calmed the demon and said "I can't believe WE forgot!" (I did very good using that "WE" didn't I?!) When she came downstairs, she told him that the tooth fairy couldn't find her tooth but he had already come up with another excuse. (His excuse requires a little background info: She had gotten in trouble the last two days at school for talking and had gotten her name on the board. She has been in big trouble with us over it and has been grounded from everything she holds dear. ~quiet Mom!! ~remember "Do as I say and not as I 'DID'") So Nathan tells her, "You know, Taylor, the Tooth Fairy is a lot like Santa in that she knows when you've been naughty and nice. She knows that you've made bad choices at school the last two days and she won't come reward you for your lost tooth when you're not behaving at school." At that, she just shook her head yes and promised to be good today. Thank God she was!! When I picked her up I was so nervous to hear what her teacher was going to say to me as I have done everything and threatened everything I know to do. Thankfully, when Taylor came out, she mouthed "Much better today" with a smile. Whew! This afternoon I put a note under her pillow from the Tooth Fairy. It says "Dear Taylor, I'm so sorry but I couldn't find your tooth tonight. Please try again tomorrow night. Love, The Tooth Fairy." She hasn't found it yet but I'm sure she will by the time she goes to bed. I'm setting my cell phone alarm to go off and remind me tonight. However, based on how terrible I've felt about it, I don't think I'll need the reminder.
Well, time to get packin'! I don't know that I'll be able to post any messages until we return from AR, so I hope you have a wonderful, restful!!!!, holiday and enjoy the time spent with your family and friends. I know that it's sometimes easy to get agitated or irritated with our family members when we're spending that much time with them, especially in close quarters, but try to remember to thank God that you have them and thank him especially for sending us his Son and making this holiday possible! Love ya! ~and for those of you in AR
SEE YA REAL SOON! ;-)
Here is a picture of our tree.
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