Do you miss my longer, wordy, snarkier posts? Too bad. Mostly pictures today—but maybe by the end you’ll see why I don’t have time to write more than this lousy explanation for why I haven’t been writing many blog posts.
I hosted our annual gingerbread houses decorating day (which involved baking and building ten houses ahead of time):
…and helped the boys make jeweled serving spoons/forks for some of the teachers:
…and helped them make these stick Christmas trees for the other teachers:
…and helped them paint three of these babies for Christmas presents:
…and helped Vincenzo make five sets of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ornaments for his student market:
…and helped the boys make two of these for Christmas presents:
…and finished round one of holiday baking and delivering:
…and somehow also I have also gotten the boys to two martial arts lessons a week, two basketball practices, three speech therapy appointments, one family swimming lesson, and weekly visits to Great Grandpa and Great Aunt Helen.
And just to be mean:
Done.
I feel crazy. I feel invincible! I also feel like I must be incredibly irritating to a lot of people right now.
But most of all I am irritating to myself. I am so irritated! Can Christmas just be over so I can go back to making fun of myself? I like me so much better that way.
WHAT’S COOKIN’ 2NITE:
Pork tenderloin with plum sauce
Macaroni and cheese
Fresh fruits/vegetables
Christmas cookies
You were also the first to send a perfect family Christmas card to my house before I had even ordered ours! Thanks for that guilt trip too! And, what the hell, did you color coordinate the wrapping paper on your gifts? Good grief.
Oh, and could you teach us to do that serving spoon/fork thing?