Wow! So looking back at my blog history it has been a while (over a month)since my last post. (I feel like I say that a lot...oh well...so goes the life of this Mama and her Whos!) As it has for MANY other people this last month or so has been a crazy whirlwind. We have had many different events and activities happen.
My brother-in-law whom I mentioned in my last post in November is doing really well with his amputation and so are my-sister-in-law and our nephews. We had great Thanksgiving with them at their house in Alabama (which was a BIG deal for me because of my family's large traditions of Thanksgiving).
Then of course December rolled in SUPER FAST whether we were ready for it or not! I had lots of BIG creative plans of things I wanted to do differently this year and unfortunately not very many of them got accomplished (apparently God had other plan I wasn't aware of). I had wanted to do a RAK calendar this year and even attempted to start on one but never got it going! (For those of you who may not know RAK stands for "Random Acts of Kindness...it's something I picked up on from some other Mommy and Teacher blogs I occasionally read). While we didn't get a full month of kindness going we did do one that was really neat for me. We left a dollar on a game at Ci-Ci's pizza while we were out of town and got to see some kids find it as we were leaving the restaurant. I LOVED the look on their faces! !
My hope was too calm our Christmas down in the means of spending money and overloading our kids and family with senseless "stuff" (I know you were all laughing out loud at the calming down Christmas weren't you). I wanted/hoped to do homemade Christmas for family and friends...some happened...some did not!
I was able to make some cute snowman cake-pops for my big-girl Who's class party! But let's just say that cake-pops tend to get the better of me and it never fails that the last week of school before Christmas break always seems to be super busy...even when I think I will have time to bake all the little goodies I want for my Who's teachers! After staying up way past my bed time of 9:30 to finish snowman cake-pops I called it a night with only 1 batch of Oreo balls for all the FABULOUS teachers of my Who's. The next morning at 5am, feeling VERY inadequate as I put 4 Oreo balls into 1 bag for each teacher (which was in no way acceptable). I finished one more batch of Oreo balls AND went to Kroger to buy giftcards for them because they take care of my Who's when I cannot and I do appreciate them way more than just 4 Oreo balls worth!
Another thing we DID accomplish this year was limiting our number of gifts and amount of our gifts for the kids
Each got 3, 2 from Mommy and Daddy and 1 from Santa (thanks to my direct line to the North Pole I was able to get this new tradition to the the elves in the toy shop!) Although Mr. Who, who tends to be more excited about the Who's gifts than they are, was QUITE worried about my suggestion of this new tradition.But it paid off on Christmas morning. All the Whos were HAPPY about their gifts and Tanner-Who said multiple time "this is the best Christmas ever!" (Gotta love it when they help prove me right!) LOL
I am attaching some pictures of 2 homemade gifts I did get around to making for grandparents and Gi-Gi (thanks to Gram)! Can I just say that I LOVE crafting and making cute little things!
Well after Christmas Eve with my Daddy's family, Christmas breakfast at our house, Christmas lunch with my Mama's family, and Christmas low country boil (that's a present right there) on December 28th with Wesley's family (that includes 14 grandkids) all of our Christmas festivities were done.
THEN we got a chance to go to the mountains in NC for a few days this past week! We even got to see SNOW! I will post some pictures of our good-times there too. Thanks Grammy and Pa for letting us go with yall!
Sorry for the lonnnnggg post! I guess that's what happens when I take a month off.
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