Scribbles 'n Scraps

Our Christmas was absolutely wonderful this year, however it ended with a twist. (photos included) First of all, I only wanted two things other than that, I really needed/wanted nothing and would have just been happy with some scrapbooking stuff. I actually didn’t get any, but I got a check so I could order my own – that’s even better. The only two things I wanted, was a specific coffee maker, and a specific bread machine. I’m not too picky – really. LOL Both were WAY expensive and seriously not anything I intended to receive. In fact, I really didn’t think my mom could pull it off before Christmas, since I only told her about a week and a half before and they needed to be ordered. Well, I got both and I will share in another post about what and how they are. In the meantime, this was my Christmas Night:

The repercussions of a UTI gone bad. It was spreading to her Kidney’s and her fever was almost 105. It was nuts, but she is feeling SO much better, and we have a pediatricians appt. in the morning as a follow up and we are hoping to begin working towards figuring out why she gets them so often. It’s terrible for this kid.

She had what the nurse coined “sick eyes”. She said it made her sad to see kids with sick eyes, and boy did Brie ever have them. She looks like she has a black eye, but honestly she didn’t. They were just that pink around them. The right eye (your left) was WAY worse than the other.

Again, she is doing so much better – two antibiotics, a pain med and plenty of Tylenol for good measure. Oh, and way more water than she’d like to be drinking (I’m not complaining at all!)

I love my son, I really do. But there are just some days where I love the ability to humiliate him. If you knew him, you would love it too. He takes great pride in being as silly and goofy as he can be, even when it is not appropriate. In addition, he takes more pleasure than I’d like, in seeing other people humiliated. So, with that said, here is my son in my daughter’s pink jacket. Isn’t he cute?

I love you Rye, I really do!

I promised in this post that I would update with clear photographs of the ornaments my two youngest made at my mom’s house last month.

This one is Brielle’s (age 10) and for the most part she did do it all by herself. My mom taught her shading awhile ago, and showed her how to first draw it and then my mom helped her a bit with the eyes. My mother is an artist and has every brush imagineable so many of the features were done with certain brushes. I was really impressed. Who is the girl she painted? Nobody actually knows. Including her. LOL

This one is Jesse’s (age 9) and she did this side the red with green polka dots and the other side is green with red polka dots. It seems simple, but looks really cute on the three. She’s still learning art techniques, and hasn’t been working with my mom as long, but I the ornament completely reflects her and her personality.

So there’s our two ornaments that are new to our tree this year. The kids always get new ornaments on Christmas eve, so that night there will be five new ones.