Christmas Stitchery

Here is the Christmas Stitchery I was telling you about I have had it done for a while, but hadn't gotten a picture taken of it. Jonah made the frame so that I can switch out the stitcheries seasonally next I am working on the winter one, hopefully I will get it done before the Spring thaw!

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

We visited Macy's in Minneapolis and Santa on Friday. It was very busy. When we walked through the bottom floors on our way to the Christmas display it was deceptively calm and I thought that it might be too bad, but then we arrived on the 9th floor and the craziness was revealed there were so many people everywhere that it was difficult to get out of the elevator! But we made it though the display which was, A day in the life of and Christmas elf. and then stood in line only a short while to see the big guy in red. When we saw Santa Will climbed up in his lap without much hesitation, but Jake refused to even go near him. The photographer suggested that he sit on the drum, thank goodness for the drum or I don't think he would be in the picture. He did warm up when Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas, to which he replied, "a lightyear buzz". Will asked for a Super Hero Squad Game (according to him he is Spiderman). When we were leaving I asked Jake what he had asked Santa for, he said, a light year buzz but no he gave me one!" Apparently he thought that Santa would give him whatever he asked for right on the spot!
Tonight Will told me that he wished he had have asked Santa for a buzz lightyear too and wondered if Jake would share his buzz lightyear. Good thing "Santa" foresaw this very issue, I predict there will be two lightyear buzzes under the tree on Christmas ;)

Merry Christmas Eve Eve everyone, only a couple more days until Christmas. I hope all of your preparations are ready and that you can relax in the next couple of days.

What do you do with your nose?

From a conversation with Jake this morning.

Me: Jake what do you do with your nose?
Jake: We put paper on it and we blow! . . . Mom what is so funny????

I hate sad endings

any type of sad ending at all. I steer away from books and movies that I know have sad endings, i.e. someone dies at the end. Even if I have heard great things about the movie I will usually refuse to watch it. When I watch a movie or read a book I want to know that ultimately the ending will be happy. Boys gets girl and they live Happily Ever After. They never break up no one dies prematurely, Happily Ever After. There is nothing that I hate more than investing time into watching a movie, or even worse, reading a book and getting to the end only to be depressed. I watched Catch and Release last night and not only was the storyline disjointed but really depressing. The ending was ultimately happy but the entire story was pretty sad I found myself wanting to cry and cry and I really don't like crying at all. So then I was annoyed that I watched a movie that made me cry! The entire movie watching experience was a bust! Tonight I think I will watch my new favorite show Pawn Stars. It is a history channel show that I think can best be described as Antique Road Show meets a redneck. It is about a Pawn shop in Las Vegas and all of the things they buy. They come across some really interesting items as well as people. Best of all there is never really a sad ending some bad buys or deals that cannot be made but never a true sad ending and you may even learn something. That is my kind of show!