One week left!

Christmas is quickly approaching...and although I am mostly ready, I still feel as though I've forgotten something huge or missed someone in the gift giving area. I still have to pick up a turkey - so I guess that's a pretty big thing I should do soon.
I went to bed feeling sick yesterday and didn't have a great sleep - kept waking up feeling achy and with a sore throat. Not at my best today, that's for sure -let's hope it goes away overnight!

A few pics to leave you with:

We made some fruit candies/gummies to give out. You don't want to see what happened after I left them on the stove and turned on the oven. Oops. Annika was not impressed with me.

Daddy and his girl

Ceniza had some surgery on her ear...poor little thing.. This panty hose over the head didn't work.

Annika adding snowlady eyelashes

Making the snowlady

Wrapping paper wars - such fun!

Hope you're not too stressed in these last few days before Christmas!
Penny

Dayhome is picked!!

Hooray!! The title says it all. I am so relieved to have found a home that is a good match for my kidlets. It's a bit more of a drive (it's not in our neighbourhood), but it's close enough...around 10-15 minutes drive. That's not bad considering that I drove Annika to/fr Sherwood Park for a year and a half! I took the kids over to the dayhome this evening and I felt like it was a good place. Warm and inviting, with a big Christmas tree and lots of toys, this home will be the home away from home for my babies.

Speaking of Christmas...wow...only 3 weeks left!! Eeek! Everyone done shopping? I'm not. But I think I'll be able to pull it off somehow. I also need to do baking and get a turkey for our Christmas dinner!

I went to the mall last week and decided to take the kids to see Santa. Here's some pics:

We arrived at the North Pole and there wasn't too much of a line, thank goodness

Love

This picture kills me. I laugh out loud every time I see it.

We also went to the Festival of Trees this weekend...had a nice time wandering around just taking in the festivities. I whipped up an advent calendar using scrapbook paper (pennant style) and that's what was the special treat for Dec 1 - a visit to the festival. Yesterday's activity was to bake Christmas cookies with a friend, and today's was to enjoy a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows. Yum. So we did all three things!

Hope you all had a great weekend! Enjoy your week...
Penny