I believe that we all strive to be happy but we have our moments where we fall short of our own expectations and even want to slap some sense to those that get on our nerves. I wish I could have done that to a woman on Friday and it took EVERYTHING I had not to call her names and give her the finger. She purposely behaved extremely rude just because she wanted to I guess. Seriously, I was pissed off at her for doing what she did .... but I didn't allow myself to lose control. Some people just don't have common courtesy yet they expect tolerance when they don't deserve it.
Anyway, that was several days ago. Now, I don't give a toot about that woman and will choose to ignore her if I happen to see her again on my way to Nathan's school.
Sometimes I can't believe I have a 16 year old daughter. It has nothing to do about me being in my late 30's but when I look at her or just think about her it both amazes me and freaks me out ... because she'll soon be 18 years old and going out into the world, exploring it on her own. What I stress the most as a mother is her safety. I know I shouldn't worry but in the back of my mind I always will.
I realized I didn't post this picture in my last post but still wanted to include it for the kids so see their paternal grandparents from their November 2013 visit to WA. Nice people. They are the ones we go to whenever we have a question about His word and for prayers. My father-in-law is the most patient easy going man I know. He never complains and from what I've seen he never says no. My mother-in-law is nice as well.
Riley likes to play around with brother. He sometimes tries to pull down his shorts just for the fun of it and the more Nathan laughs the more Riley keeps doing it and can't stop laughing himself.
Another evident sign that Sydna is growing up ... Jacob took her on her first test drive. Relieved he has the guts to teach her because I don't. He took her to a neighborhood where there's new construction and hardly any traffic. He said she did well and only covered the basics ... however he did give her a hard time because she failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. I laughed. Sydna was excited though and can't wait to go on another test drive.
Here is another Christmas ornament I worked on last week. It was quite easy to do. I just covered several Christmas balls with burlap and tied them with festive ribbon. That's it. Easy, super cute and a quick project.
These are the Christmas trees I showed you a couple of weeks ago. I like how they look but I couldn't find where to hang them so I just decided to hang them in a bare corner wall that was lacking some Christmas cheer.
Jacob gave this little boy a much needed haircut.
And now, see how cute he looks? I like it!
Guess what I finally decided to do .... since my favorite cookies are sugar cookies I decided to make some from scratch several days ago. I had Jacob supervise me while I did it. It's easy. Sydna was giving me a hard time because she said I was taking my time measuring everything. LOL. Honestly, when I cook I don't measure anything. I just eye ball it ... but with baking I hear it's different and one has to measure everything. How BORING!!!! Maybe, this is why it has taken me years to get into baking. And maybe next time I'll be a little quicker too.
I bought this little guy a sketch/drawing pad. I drew {as best as I could, lol} a candy cane and showed him how to color inside the red lines/stripes. He then took the red crayon and began coloring inside the lines. He did so good. He really concentrated and made quite the effort not to color outside the line. Impressive!
He recently remembered how fun it can be to play with a flashlight. I keep it in one of the top cabinets and when I was getting a cup one day he saw it and asked for it. I've found him playing inside the bottom cabinets and the pantry. I'll see light shining through the cracks and realize he's hiding.
I finished decorating my mantel last week. I love the simplicity of the votive candles. I bought white sand and placed berries around the candle.
I'm so thrilled with myself because I mailed out our Christmas cards last week. It feels pretty good knowing that loved ones will receive their cards a couple of weeks before Christmas and not the week of Christmas or days before. I really like getting things done with time and I'm happy to be getting back on that routine once again.
When we go grocery shopping Jacob usually hands Riley his phone so he can play games and let us shop in peace. I peeked in on him {and hoping he didn't press anyone's number} ... he was watching a video of Sydna's first test drive. He's so funny. Sometimes he'll watch every single video and we'll hear him crack up at the ones of himself.
The weekend was busy. We went Christmas shopping. We dropped Sydna and Nathan off at the movies to watch Catching Fire while we shopped for them.
We got home and celebrated Riley's birthday ... but more on that on another post.
It really felt good being back home and changing into warm clothes.
On Sunday we went to see Santa ... more on that too.
Sydna and Nathan stayed home. I guess they are too grown up to take pictures with him but just you wait. Things will change when they find their special someone and end up doing all those fun cheesy things with them, including taking pictures with Santa. I'm sure it'll be cool then.
It had been several weeks since Jacob and I {and Riley} had lunch together. We went to Red Robin. It was nice having somewhat of a date. Then we made a stop at Starbucks and I got my favorite holiday drink. I didn't have my coffee in the morning and was really surprised I didn't end up with a headache later in the day.
This month is sure flying by. It almost feels like there's not enough weekends to do all the fun Christmas-y things we want to do.
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