'twas the night before the night before Christmas

'twas the day before the night before Christmas when the phone suddenly rang and what do my mothers wandering ears hear but a serenade that went something like this: you better not scream, you better not shout, you better not pout, the kids and I are picking you up to see Santa! Not probably the thing she was wanting to hear at 945 after a restless night but as always mother was dressed and at the gate by 1130 and off we ran to buy graham crackers then go see the jolly ol fat man himself! Not to mention we got to look around this really cool antique "mall" thing over in Milton where Santa was visiting. Afterwards we pawned the kids off on Granddaddy who drew, cut out and taped sharks to the wall with them while mom and I recovered the little folding chairs the kids sit on in my den. One tore earlier in the month so mom and I found some rubber shelf liner that made a great upholstery for kiddy chairs! Only one casualty...the nail gun chipped moms thumb nail when I shot it. Oh, and Jax has a blister on his knuckle where he grazed the hot glue gun. Upon returning home I hit up Redbox for Men in Black 3 and Arthur Christmas (for the kids) and watched movies with hubby while Jax zonked out in my lap and Freyja enjoyed her Santa flick in the den. Now she's happily passed out after reading her new Peter Rabbit book from Granddaddy and is cuddling her Peter that came with it, Jax is out cold in my bed and I just took my horse pills for an early onset of fever blisters. Time to call it a night and prep for the big night tomorrow!

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Day 338

Heaven help the beach, Aunt Nita, mom and Suzi have invaded! David and I dropped the kids at a friends house and met them out at the beach and had our first kid free meal in ages. I'm not sure when I will see them again but hopefully it's not in jail needing bail money! Other than that its been a quiet day with my princess and pirate! Gnite!

Day 336

What a beautiful day to go to the beach for Christmas pictures! 73degrees, cloudy and not very windy. Yet we chose to wear sweaters and kick off our socks and shoes for your typical beach portrait. I traded services with a friend of mines husband, so he took our pictures and I took theirs. The kids had a great time running in the sand. Freyja saw a sting ray jump out of the water. Jaxon brought home half the beach in his diaper, Freyja had the other half in the cuffs of her pant legs…anything left was in the cuffs of mine! Afterwards we went wish mom vh a happy birthday. Paul (photographer friend) will have his shots of today to me later this week and I will post the rest of them then but in the meantime, use the December link that I sent out yesterday and you can see the rest of the pictures from today that I took. Jax crashed early tonight so I've been organizing pictures and folders on my laptop. Now its time to head to bed and catch a few winks before my monster man decides its time to cuddle or wake up!
 

Day 335

I was awakened this morning at 630am by a little hand shaking me and a lil voice saying MAMA!! The tooth fairy came!! She left me THIS...as she shoves a $5 and 2 gold coins in my face...but mama, they are chocolate!!! And she runs back off to bed. Not 15min later Jax wakes up and the day is started. We went to an open house at the Wild Life Refuge and got to see lots of cute little cuddly things. Then went to a birthday party at Chik Fil A for one of Freyjas friends. Then went out past Milton fit what we thought would be a fun outting to see Christmas lights but the kids fell asleep, we got turned around out in the middle of no where, the place was NOT what we anticipated, their train was not up and running and then Milton was having its Christmas parade tonight (we didn't know) and we got stuck in parade traffic on the way home. Now Jax is watching a Toy Story marathon since there's no chance this kid will sleep after his two hour nap in the car! It was a fun day but sure could've used a better ending! The December album is up now, I sent out the link earlier. Tomorrow we go to the beach and do Christmas pictures!!